Guest guest Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 Dear Bhagavatas: Here is a mail from Sri M K Srinivasa Iyengar Swami, one of our Board members. I have no idea about this. Can any one of our group throw any light with proper authority? Moderator ====================================================================== "M K Srinivasan" <m.k.srinivasan m.k.srinivasan "Anbil K Ramaswamy" <ramanbil (No Subject) Wed, 02 Oct 2002 01:14:33 +0530 Dear Sri Ramaswamy, Last weekend we had been to Grand Canyon. An awe-inspiring sight, grand like Himalayas. There, I was intrigued to find sites referred to as Vishnu temple, Brahma temple and Siva temple etc. There was a location called "Vishnu Schist" at the very bottom of the Canyon, several thousand feet deep. Can you tell what these places signify? In Ramayana, there is a reference to the sixty thousand sons of king Sagara digging deep into the earth in search of the Aswamedha sacrificial horse and reaching Patala and finding Kapila Muni (incarnation of Vishnu) who cursed them to ashes for having disturbed his penance. Incidentally, some years back one scholar had done some research in the Indian-sounding names abroad and had said that California is a transposition of Kapila-aranya, the forest of Kapila maharshi! Then, schist means a "split rock". Does this have any significance? Can you or any of your friends clarify whether there is any link between the Ramayana episode and the Canyon names? Yours sincerely, M.K.Srinivasan _______________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Jai Shri Ram! Respected folks, I happen to visit the canyon too and saw the various peaks named after Hindu gods.However, if we noticed there are peaks named after major gods belonging to the various religions of the world(Zoroaster etc...).I asked the tourist guide and the explanation he gave me was that the patterns of these peaks resembled these faces and hence the British(owing to their Indian connection)gave them those names.However California being Kapilaranya seems to be quite an interesting concept. Adiyen Buvana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 (Message is being resent - please disregard if already received) List members Clarence E. Dutton, who was working for Major John Wesley Powell had briefly passed through the Yale Divinity school named various points in the Grand Canyon based on Hindu and other religious icons. Authority: An entry on Clarence Dutton maybe found in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica besides wide reporting on this subject. An excerpt of the book "Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon District" by Clarence E. Dutton can be found at http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam1394.htm An interesting Indian perspective from a traveller - Air Vice Marshall Vishwa Mohan Tewari may be found at http://www.indianest.com/travels/004a.htm And since this topic is about naming patterns it maybe noted that Yale university was named after Elihu Yale because of an endowment that he made the university based on a fortune he amassed as Governor of Madras in 1687. (Authority: see http://www.yale.edu/about/history.html and here for a bio http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Y/Yale-E1li.asp ) Thanks Srinivasan Sriram , "Ram Anbil" <Ramanbil@h...> wrote: > Dear Bhagavatas: > Here is a mail from Sri M K Srinivasa Iyengar Swami, one of our Board members. I have no idea about this. > > Can any one of our group throw any light with proper authority? > Moderator > ====================================================================== > "M K Srinivasan" <m.k.srinivasan@e...> > m.k.srinivasan@e... > "Anbil K Ramaswamy" <ramanbil@h...> > (No Subject) > Wed, 02 Oct 2002 01:14:33 +0530 > > Dear Sri Ramaswamy, > Last weekend we had been to Grand Canyon. An awe-inspiring sight, grand like > Himalayas. There, I was intrigued to find sites referred to as Vishnu temple, > Brahma temple and Siva temple etc. > > There was a location called "Vishnu Schist" at the very bottom of the Canyon, > several thousand feet deep. Can you tell what these places signify? > > In Ramayana, there is a reference to the sixty thousand sons of king Sagara > digging deep into the earth in search of the Aswamedha sacrificial horse and > reaching Patala and finding Kapila Muni (incarnation of Vishnu) who cursed > them to ashes for having disturbed his penance. > > Incidentally, some years back one scholar had done some research in the > Indian-sounding names abroad and had said that California is a transposition > of Kapila-aranya, the forest of Kapila maharshi! > > Then, schist means a "split rock". Does this have any significance? > > Can you or any of your friends clarify whether there is any link between the > Ramayana episode and the Canyon names? > > Yours sincerely, > M.K.Srinivasan > > > _______________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 You most probably will find if you search further a more simplier reason why the peaks in the Grand Canyon were named after various ancient gods and goddesses. The is a good chance that Clarence E. Dutton or some one in his party was a Free-Mason. If you check Albert Pike's "Morals and Dogma" from the mid 1800's you will find every god and goddess named there in great detail. The Free Masons fancy themselves to be the repository of all ancient mystery religion's knowlege and secrets. They claim to be the sublime and adept... as we are inclined to be the profane and the ignorant. Just study Free Masonry literature and you will find the interest the various eastern religions with a consistant slant against Christianity while seemingly promoting it in their Lodges upon the altar... but in any other lodge... the book of spiritual enlightenment is the accepted case. Most of the leaders in government are Freemasons... as most of the monuments in DC are Masonic in nature. Most of the founding fathers were Masons. Most military and police even today... are Masons. Though I am not... my great, great grandfather who was a PA Senator was an antimason... and led the campaign which at one time eliminated the Lodges from the NE US.... Just food for thought... JRM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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