Fwd: Kubera, navanidhi and proto-vedic continuity

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Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

 

Kubera, navanidhi and proto-vedic continuity

 

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Vais'ravana as Kubera is a Vedic divinity. The determination of

navanidhi

helps determine the continuity of proto-vedic language and culture

among

Bharatam Janam. This argument is elaborated in the following

Sections:

 

1. Wealth creation

 

1.1 Samudramanthanam, creating wealth

 

1.2 What is -nidhi in nava-nidhi?

 

1.3 Navanidhi of Kubera as mines, minerals, earthenware and ocean

resources

 

1.4 Padma, Maha_padma (mines)

 

1.5 Makara: synonym Padmini, kohl, anjana, black antimony

 

1.6 Ni_la, antimony

 

1.7 Mukunda, mercuric sulphide or cinnabar, sindhur(refined to

produce

quicksilver)

 

1.8 Kunda, arsenic (to produce bell-metal)

 

1.9 Kharva, baked cup

 

1.10 Kacchapa, tortoise or turtle shell

 

1.11 S'ankha, conch-shell industry 6500 BCE to-date

 

2. Kubera, vedic divinity on s'ilpa

 

2.1 Kubera, vais'ravana in Atharva Veda, yaksha, s'rivatsa

 

2.2 Kubera, lokapala

 

2.3 Kubera and makara kun.d.ala

 

2.4 Kubera in bauddham

 

2.5 Kubera, Bishamon and S'ibika

2.6 Kubera, navanidhi and Mahis.a

 

The navanidhi or nine treasures of Kubera are:

 

- padma <http://www.experiencefestival.com/padma> (lake in

Himalayawith minerals and jewels)

- mahapadma (lake double the size of padma in Himalaya with

minerals

and jewels)

- makara <http://www.experiencefestival.com/makara> (Synonym of

Padmini, black antimony)

- nila <http://www.experiencefestival.com/nila> (Antimony)

- mukunda <http://www.experiencefestival.com/mukunda>

(quicksilver)

- kunda <http://www.experiencefestival.com/ananda> (arsenic)

- kharva (cups or vessels baked in fire)

- kachchhapa (tortoise or turtle shell)

- sankha <http://www.experiencefestival.com/sankha> (conch shell)

 

The names are mentioned in verse 534 of the Megha-duta, collected

works, iv. 372.

 

The semantics provided in parenthesis will be explained further in

the

following sections. The categories involved in the nine treasures of

Kubera are: minerals worked on to produce metals and alloys and

related artefacts, mineral sources (Padma, Mahapadma), products of

smiths (baked vessels), products of the sea traded (tortoise or

turtle

shell or conch shell). In the case of the conch shell, s'ankha, the

basic source of wealth is also worked on to produce wide and

red-pigmented bangles, to make trumpets (conches) and polished,

painted on the edges in red to be used as sacred ladles for libations

or for feeding medicines or milk to infants.

 

Such are the navanidhi of Kubera or the nine treasures of hindu

civilization.

 

The monograph is at http://navanidhi.blogspot.com/ The album of

related

pictures is at http://spaces.msn.com/members/sarasvati97 Title of

album:

Kubera, navanidhi.

Dhanyavaadah.

K.

 

 

 

 

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