Dear Mr Sekar, Thank you for the response with additions about water and fire. Probably on account of this Vedic Brahmins performed Samidadanam by youngsters after Upananyanam and Oupasanam after marriage by elders and Oupasanagni kept lit till antheyshti.
Rivers were given status of Gods and many temples they were installed/ carved in the entrance to the temple.Gopalakrishnan On Saturday, 13 January, 2024 at 04:56:57 pm IST, 'N Sekar' via KeralaIyers <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks. Q 2 Although strictly not related to the question, still it is worth recalling: Civilizations developed around the places where rivers were. Water is called in Tamizh " Prana Nadi" meaning without water there is no life. Agni and Water are indispensable for many of our rituals. N Sekar Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 12:52 PM, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123<[email protected]> wrote: CULTURAL QA 01-2024-12 All the BELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 13-01-2024. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers .Compiled and posted by R. Gopalakrishnan, on 13-01-2024 Q1 Doyou know a joke about a fishing licence? A1 AndrasLu,14h A man is in his boat out on the lake with a bucketfull of fish that he had just caught. A wildlife officer spots him and pullshis boat up alongside. Seeingthe bucket of fish in the man's boat, the wildlife officer asks to see hisfishing license. The man tells the officer that hedoesn't need a fishing license. The wildlife officer looks down at the bucketand says: "You definitely need a license to be catchingfish, I can see that you've been fishing today. You have live fish right there!" The man says: "Oh no, those are my pet fish. I just broughtthem out here for the day to enjoy the lake." "Pet fish?" Replied the wildlife officer. "Oh absolutely, I let him out of the bucket and they swimaround and play, but when I whistle they all jump right back in. They are verywell trained." The wildlife officers scratches his chin, then says:"I've never heard about trained pet fish. Well I'vegot to see this." The man dumps the bucket of fish into the lake, thencalmly turns and looks at the wildlife officer. The wildlifeofficer says: "Well, call them back." The man says: "Call who back." The wild life officer says: "Your pet fish." "What petfish?" Replied the man. Q2 Whatare some interesting facts about water? A2 Deepaktopzone,Dec 6 There are two kinds of water: salt water and freshwater. Salt water contains—you guessed it—large quantities of salt, while fresh water has a dissolved saltconcentration of less than 1%. Only fresh water can be used as drinkingwater. Americans usefive times the amount of water that Europeans use. A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 75litres of water a day. Frozen water is 9% lighter than water, which explainswhy ice floats. Water is the only substance on earth that is foundnaturally in three forms: liquid, solid and gas. A trilliontons of water is evaporated every day by the sun! If you ever catch a fever, be sure to drink lots ofwater—it regulates your body temperature. In Canada, there is more water underground than on thesurface. Most of the water found on the earth's surface ispermanently frozen or salty. Less than 1% ofthe water supply on earth can be used as drinking water. More than 90% of the world's supply of fresh water islocated in Antarctica. The earth is a closed system that rarely loses orgains extra matter. Essentially, this means that the same water that existed onearth millions of years ago is still present today. Pure water hasno smell and no taste. It also has a pHlevel of around 7. Canada is home to 25% of the world's wetlands. Infact, it's the largest wetland area in the world. Our bodies are 60-70% water; our brains are 75% water;our lungs are nearly 90% water; and our blood is about 82% water. Q3 Howis serfdom any different from slavery? A3 ClaireJordan,Worked at National Health Service (NHS)15h In most places in Europe serfs were only like slavesin that they couldn’t change their location or job without their lord’spermission. They werebasically employees with a rather restrictive contract, not property. They had legal protection from cruel treatment, againstsexual assault etc. and they and their lord were legally bound to protect *eachother* - it wasn’t just one way. They could marry whomever they pleased. Their children weren’t sent away from them againsttheir will, and though it was normal for children to go away to new jobs quiteyoung, there were networks in place for parent and child to keep tabs on howeach other were doing, visit each other at Easter etc. They had a*lot* of holy days off - some sources say 150 a year. Of course they still had to feed andmilk their beasts, but other than that they spent the day watching religiousplaylets, dancing etc. In England, atleast, they usually had comfortable two-storey houses and could afford goodkitchenware and the occasional flagon of wine. Although they were required to work the lord’s land asa form of rent in exchange for their own land, they had a *lot* of land for themselves as well -not the occasional small garden patch that slaves got, but a whole small farm’sworth of fertile strips to raise wheat and barley, turnips, pigs and chickens,and they could sell their surplus produce. There was noliteral slave-driver standing over them and forcing them to do things *his* way: they had work that needed to bedone, but it was up to them to do it in their own way, so long as it got done. Anyinfractions, such as failing to do their share of the work on their lord’sfields, were punished with fines, not whipping. Having said that,serfs in Russia *were* effectively slaves until the early 19thC, and could beput up as stakes in card games and sold away from their families against theirwill. Q4 Whatare some unknown facts about Srirangam? A4 DevKumar, student Wed Srirangamwas attacked by the Delhi Sultanate during the Tamil month of Vaikasi. Nearly, 12,000 residents ofSrirangam island had laid down their lives fighting to protect the temple. The forcesattacked the temple and Lord Ranganatha's jewels and the temple gold were takenaway. The forces also wanted to seize the murti of Vishnu.They searched for the murti but the Vaishnavite Acharya, Pillailokacharya had taken themurti away and fled to Madurai. (The murti of Vishnu, called Namperumal thatleft Srirangam in 1323 returned back only in 1371). Unable to locate the murti, the Sultanate forces killedthe temple authorities and later launched a massive hunt for Pillailokacharyaand Namperumal. Fearing that the forces would capture the Acharya andthe image, Vellayi, a temple dancer ( devadasi ) performed adance before the commander of the forces thus gaining time for Pillailokacharyato escape with the image. Her dance lasted for hours together and finally she tookthe commander to the eastern gopuram and pushed him down.After killing him, Vellayi jumped to her death fromthe tower of the eastern entrance chanting the name of Ranganathar. HailingVellayi's sacrifice, the chief of Vijayanagara forces, Kempanna, who drove awaythe Sultanate forces, named the tower after her. The gopuram continues to be painted white in her memoryand now called as Vellai Gopuram. Q5 Whatare some of the greatest examples of presence of mind? A5 AshwinAmar, Works at Students6y This is about the most loved and intelligent CheifMinister of Tamil Nadu.He is none other than the renowned scholar C.N.AnnaDurai. During1968,Anna made his debut visit to USA to attend a conference at Yale University. In order to judge his English skills ,a student asked him to tell tenwords in English which doesn't have alphabets “A,B,C and D” in themwithin a minute. Littlecomplex right? Nope.Anna repliedwith 100 words within a second. He said “one,two,three…..ninetynine”.Suddenly he said “STOP”. If you noticeyou would understand that no word has letters “A,B,C and D” in one toninetynine. The crowd was flattered by his presence of mind. erase most of the traces of asteroid collisions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iyer123" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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