Ancient Building Technology
Topic started by AlwaysRight (@ proxy.samart.co.th) on Thu Oct 17 01:57:09 .
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Itz a wondering thing while visiting our Temples like Tanjore or Madurai. Nowadays we have a lot of building constructing technologies. Eventhough, the buildings are not so strong. But how come on those days, without these new technologies, our people built such a big temples and they are still so strong after many years. Why can't we follow the same technology nowadays too?!
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- From: Madurai Veeran (@ adsl-66-122-61-85.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net)
on: Thu Oct 17 02:17:49
Mr. AlwaysRight,
You are damn right.
There was ancient technolgy and plenty of it too. There was technology to build pushpak vimanas, there was technology to build agni ashthras, there was technolgy to build mercury ion propelled vimanas - as detailed in Vimanika Sashtras, there was technolgy for cold fusion, there was technology for hot fusion, there was technology for Magnetic Confinement of Cold fusion, there was technology for making matter out of void and the list is endless... All you need to do is to dig a bit deeper in the Vedic technology manuals. In case you did'nt know, all these manuals are kept in pristine condition in some South Indian temple - for all you know our jagatguru sankaracharya, the Kanchi mamuni, may even have photocopies of them in his archives. [In case you did'nt know, our kanchi mamuni also has an extensive collection of amma jj's pictures of 'penthouse' centerfolds in his archives. Cho Ramasamy and Subramanyam Swamy seem to have had a sneak preview - it is so rumored.]
May be you have not read the Vedas in full yet.
Why bother about mundane 10th century things like Tanjore temple?
- From: Karimaaran (@ cs6625192-211.austin.rr.com)
on: Thu Oct 17 06:57:19
MV, the prime connosieur of dravidian philosophy is now condeming the dravidian architecture.
You need to take a permanent vacation.
- From: Srini (@ 203.197.239.1)
on: Thu Oct 17 07:35:35
Karimaaran:
You missed MV's tongue-in-cheek reference to Tanjore as against the other things for which he has contempt.
- From: siddharth (@ sdn-ap-020njpennp0154.dialsprint.net)
on: Thu Oct 17 10:14:15
I saw a TV show recently on Disc channel as to the innovative way stones were brought from long distances and how elephants and inclined plane were used to bring the stones to the top. They also marvelled at the architecture. Will Durant in his history of Philosophy has written about the architecture of Temples. Recently all top universities are teaching Sanskrit and have introduced courses in Vedanta. All this was impressive but alas no one consulted Dr. Madurai Veeran. Now I know the facts. I do not have credentials to argue with Dr. Madurai Veeran but I am only one step from doctorate from Anna University. Once I am able to get a backward certificate I will get either a Yum D. or a P. yech Dee or both. Not bad a person who has passed 8th grade.
- From: Karimaaran (@ k11.facsmf.utexas.edu)
on: Thu Oct 17 22:19:58
This reminds me of the joke in the movie Gentleman. Senthil says "i am 7th pass" to Gowndamani who is "10th fail". So senthil says he is better educated than Gowndamani.
So even if MV is 8th Pass, he can be considered a Ph.D according to Anna University.
- From: Karimaaran (@ k11.facsmf.utexas.edu)
on: Thu Oct 17 22:20:46
Out of steam to reply, Madurai Muttal?
- From: :) Punnahai (@ d150-35-51.home.cgocable.net)
on: Thu Oct 17 22:30:02
Karimaaran:
I guess you just have too much steam that tongue-in-cheek comments just pass over your head even after promptings from Srini :)
- From: Madurai Veeran (@ adsl-66-122-61-85.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net)
on: Fri Oct 18 01:17:59
Dr. Karim,
Don't listen to these fellows Srini and Punnahai. They are misguiding you. They are trying to make an a-s-s out of you. And I know, you are not.
As mama p.siddarth pointed out all top universities have started teaching vedanta. It just does'nt stop there. MIT Lincoln labs has started an entire wing to research into Vedic science and Technology. NASA is building their next generation space vehicles, fashioned after Pushpak Vimanas. Pentagon is secretly working on a weapon stolen from the secrets in the Vedas - the Yankee-asthras. Heck, even the Pakistanis seem to have stolen scientific secrets from the Vedas. Who will be next? Tahiti? Hell, what are our Vedic seers like Rajaram, Natwar Jha, Subash Kak, our very own Vamadeva Shastri, and of course our Berkeley scientist Karthik doing? All these foreigners are stealing away our treasured scientific secrets handed down to us since time immemorial! Have we not learnt anything from the Nazis? Well, we could forgive the Nazis. They, after all, were our very own kind!
- From: Karimaaran (@ cs6625192-211.austin.rr.com)
on: Fri Oct 18 02:12:20
Right, they rule and we don't. How sad.
- From: ghjh (@ )
on: Tue Feb 3 13:37:36
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- From: John (@ 12.163.39.254)
on: Tue Feb 3 15:39:08 EST 2004
I remember someone saying that a mixture of 'Sunnambu' (lime) and 'Egg' was used in place of cement to build olden day temples. Don't know how true it is, but the bonding between the rocks are very strong.
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