Srirangam Southern entrance GOPURAM was constructed - about 20 years (or so ) back - with contributions from various States / Establishments / Individuals ( Music Mastero Ilayaraja being one among them !!) and it took almost a decade construct that ...
We have easily a list of not less than 15 - 20 temple - constructions during Cholas / Pandyas and Several Tall Gopurams by Sambuvarayas / Vijayanagara Krishnadevaraya and Nayaks.
Compare the technology avl today and that one thinks was available in about 5 - 10 Centuries back !
And when we see Chinese Heros like Bruce Lee or related to Shaolin Temples - we hardly question their abilities exhibited.. The chief Monk just AIRS OOOOOOOOm (called Oomkaaram in our myths) .. and the guy standing opposite is thrown out !!
Now recall from our Groups discussion that Kanthalur chalai was close to another Shaolin Temple in merits .. destruction was an acclaimed success ...
The best way is to know more about ancient past and their technical abilities ..
third scene :: from Tomb Rider :: Angelina - after a bullet injury reaches a Buddist monk - who hardly speaks. She is served a small like tea like drink... We see the injury vanishing ..
ORIENTAL KNOWLEDGE is amazing.. there are several still in search of the same !!
Tamil Heritage Foundation is planning to bring out an amazing ancient Tamil Book (just about 300 year old). Just mentioning two specialities ::
1. In a verse - it is stated when MAN is Standing from the Moon and looking at the Earth !!
2. A Herisphere graph with North and South pole upside down !!
Solar system - planets - self propelling movement of Earth etc., etc., are described more in Indian systems much much ahead of so called Eurpeon inventions.. !
Till such time we come know of Something - we obviously do not even know of our ignorance .. and the more we started knowing, we know, we know less.
Currently Reading the Life of Vivekanada ( once again) . Also there is a new article in Tamilhindu.com highlighting some inncidents.
In this he is mentioning about seeing many sanyasisand Yogis.
In Hyderabad, he met a person who brings whatever we want from air.
Swami checked like kashmiri apple - not in hyd stuff- and that man took it from air. he even took out an object 4 times his weight from air.
He mentions about a baba who can read whatever you think.
ThenSwami and his friends were given a peper and asked to keep in thepocket w.o reading it. Then they were asked to think, whatever they thought was there in the paper. One man thought words from a german medical book and it was there in the paper.
Then an air eatingbaba. ..who lives underground and survives only on air.
Swamiji explains- There were many such people earlier.The population was less and energy levels were high. With more people the energy levels are coming down.
And just recently we discussed about Periya marudhu's armour and the size of him, and Swai Raja Mann Singhs structure. These recent time heros were able to fight in the battle field weilding nearly 20KG of armours, shields, weapons....today we can even think of lifting 20KG and walk a 100 meter...but just a couple of centuries back, they actively fought in the war field with such huge weight.
We are loosing many things very fast. Every generation of us are loosing huge knowledge. My father can do any house hold repair on his own...just a screw driver, spanner, and a hammer will do for him (in fact when I returned from US, i bought only a couple of tools for him and nothing else. :) ). But I cant even fix a single nail properly :(...
so if this is the way our generations go, we can be rest assured that, whatever we learn about our yesteryear heros (including the so called mythologies) might be true.
Yesterday i was searching in a library eengoi ezhubadu - ( still could not get). One person was telling me. All the " Thanippadals" - They are slowly vanishing.