KUBERA

KUBERA 

THE LORD OF THE RICHES

Among the superhuman, celestial beings, there are various types - Yaksha, Gandharva, Deva, Asura, Naga, Rakshasa, etc.
There was a princess of the Yakshas and she gave birth to a child whose father was the great Rishi called Visravas. 
The son of Visvaras was named Kubera and under the guidance of the father took up severe Tapas towards Lord Siva. 
Lord Siva was so pleased with Kubera and caused Mayan the divine architecht to build a most magnifient city which was called Lankapuri. He also created a vimana called Pushpaka Vimana which could travel at immense speed over immeasurable distances and in all directions. 
Sometime later, Visravas was forced by an Asura princess to give her very powerful children. 
The children were named Dasagriva, KumbhaKarna, Vibheeshana, and Princess Surpanakha. 
Dasagriva was so called because he had ten heads.
The Asura princess told them to do Tapas towards Lord Siva. They did the Tapas. Dasagriva, after a long Tapas, performed a sacrifice - yaagam. 
He cut off his heads one by one and threw them into the sacrificial fire. 
When he cut the 10th head, Lord Siva appeared and revived him. 
Lord Siva gave him thirty million days of life and invincibility. He also gave him numerous divine weapons like Pasupathastra, Brahmastra, etc. 
With all this power, Dasagriva went to Lankapuri and chased out his half-brother Kubera. He coveted the city and became crowned as Lankeswara. He also took hold of the Pushpaka Vimana. 
Kubera went crying to Lord Siva. 
Lord Siva took pity on him and ordered the divine architecht to build an even more fantastic celestial city called ALagaaPuri. 
Kubera was crowned as ALagEsa - the Lord of ALagapuri. As a compensation for whatever Kubera lost, Lord Siva gave the Nava Nidhis to Kubera. The Nava Nidhis were immense riches of all kinds.
Thus Kubera became the God of Riches - Nava Nidhis.
And Lord Siva gave him a rare privilege by proclaiming him as his personal friend. 
And he also made Kubera, one of the Ashta Dik Palas - the Guardian of the North.
All this was given by Lord Siva. 

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KUMARI

KUMARI, LEMURIA AND THE TAMIL SANGAMS

        A few days ago, I wrote about a Fierce Controversy that was raging in the Literary Arena among the Tamils. 
It was about whether the Ramayana of Kamban was adulterated with spurious songs sung by other people and interposed within the epic.

There were many other controversies on and off. Some of them interesting.

One interesting controversy is that whether there was anything known as the Lemuria.

Some Tamil scholars beleive that there was a supercontinent called Lemuria which sunk under the sea 
in stages.
They beleive that the Tamils came from there. There never was a continent called Lemuria. 
Lemuria is the imagination borne out of the minds of persons called Scott Eliot and Madame Blavatsky. 
It never existed.

GONDWANALAND or PANGAEA was a super continent which existed 200 million years ago.
India, South America, Africa, and Australia were parts of that mass of land. 
A natural phenomenon called Continental Drift took place and the various sections drifted apart and they are still moving.
At that time, mankind did not exist.

What is found in our legends is the story of the Land of Kumari.
Its not even known as Kumari Kandam. 
During the earliest times, there was a land mass somewhere in the south or south east. There was a great mountain range called Panmalai. It had several peaks among which the Mount Kumari known as Kumari KOdu was probably the tallest. Legend says that the Panmalai had forty seven peaks.
It also had forty nine countries - actually seven big countries which had within them, seven minor countries each. 
There were three major rivers called the Kanni, the Kumari, and the ParhuLi. There was a capital city Then Madurai on the banks of the River ParhuLi. 
The first Tamil Snagam was held there. Legendary figures like Thiripuram eriththa Virisadai KadavuL alias IRaiyanaar, KunRam eRindha KumaravEL, Agathiyar presided over the Sangam. The Pandya kings were the patrons of the Sangam.
A deluge took place.
Panmalai adukkam with the Kumari KOdu, ParhuLi River were all sunk. 
The Pandyas took their people and established a capital called Kapaatapuram on the banks of River Kumari..This was the city that Sugriva mentions in the Kishkinda Kantam of Valmiki Ramayanam.
The Second Tamil Sangam was held there. Thuvarai KOman was a noteworthy participant. 
Kapatapuram was destroyed by ThuvaraiKoman. In due course, it went under the sea..
        The Pandya and his people moved deeper into Tamilnadu land and built a capital called ManalUr.
the Tamil Sangam was also moved there. 
They then built a new capital and moved into that city. They named it Aalavaay, NaanMaada Kuudal, and Madurai.
The Third Tamil Sangam was held there. Kapilar, ParaNar, etc., presided over it. The Pandyas were as usual the patrons.
Around the year 283 AD, the Sangam disappeared. 
After that, VajraBodhi, the Jain Monk presided over a Tamil Sangam from Madurai. 
There were other Sangams in certain towns. 
PoyyaaMolzi Pulavar formed one Tamil Sangam in Madurai. 
There was another in VEmbaththuur. 
During the early years of the 20th Century, PandiThurai Thevar of the Sethupathi dynasty of Ramanathapuram established a Sangam in Madurai. This is what is known as the Fourth Tamil Sangam.
Soon another Tamil Sangam was established at Karandhai near Thanjavur by UmaMahEswaran PiLLai. It goes by the name of Karandhai Tamil Sangam. 
Have you heard of the Kadaram Tamil Sangam?

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IDUMBAN KAVACAM

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