Mamuni Mayan
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Culture hero
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character from Tamil Sangam literature
Sangam literature
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(the Silappathikaram, Manimekalai
Manimekalai
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, and Civaka Cintamani
Civaka Cintamani
Civaka Cintamani is a classical epic poem. It is a Jain religious epic authored by Tirutakkatevar.It belongs to the Sangam tradition of Tamil literature, and is considered one of the five great Tamil epics. In its form, it anticipates the Ramayana of Kambar. Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi was much appreciated...
epics), identified with the asura
Asura
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Maya Dānava (Mayasura) of the Mahabharata
Mahabharata
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, the mythical founder of Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra
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.
V. Ganapati Sthapati
V. Ganapati Sthapati
Vaidyanatha Ganapati Sthapati was a Sthapati , and head of the College of Architecture and Sculpture in the Vastu Shastra tradition ascribed to the sage Mamuni Mayan.-Biography:...
, says that Mayan was revered by Vyasa
Vyasa
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as Vishvakarman
Vishvakarman
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, the primeval craftsman of the Vishwabrahmin sect. In 2004 Sthapati started construction of a " monument to Mayan near Mamallapuram.
Mamuni Mayan is credited with feats ranging from the composition of a primeval "Pranava Veda" to the construction of UFOs. In Tamil national mysticism
Tamil nationalism
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, Mayans "Pranava Veda" is considered the original Tamil Veda, written some 10,000 years ago in Kumari Kandam
Kumari Kandam
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, from which the Hindu Vedas are imperfect derivations.
Mayan is credited with the authorship of the Mayamata Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra is an ancient doctrine which consists of precepts born out of a traditional and archaic view on how the laws of nature affect human dwellings. The designs are based on directional alignments...
, the Surya Siddhanta
Surya Siddhanta
The Surya Siddhanta is one of the earliest siddhanta in archeo-astronomy of the Hindus by an unknown author. It describes the archeo-astronomy theories, principles and methods of the ancient Hindus. This siddhanta is supposed to be the knowledge that the Sun god gave to an Asura called Maya. Asuras...
, as well as the Aintiram (Aindra, a school of grammar connected with the Tolkāppiyam
Tolkappiyam
The Tolkāppiyam is a work on the grammar of the Tamil language and the earliest extant work of Tamil literature. It is written in the form of noorpaa or short formulaic compositions and comprises three books - the Ezhuttadikaram, the Solladikaram and the Poruladikaram. Each of these books is...
). If there had been a grammatical treatise called Aintiram, it has been lost, but a text called Mayan's Aintiram dealing with Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra
Vastu Shastra is an ancient doctrine which consists of precepts born out of a traditional and archaic view on how the laws of nature affect human dwellings. The designs are based on directional alignments...
was published by Sthapati in 1986, with the support of C. Aranganayakam, Tamil Nadu minister of education, and again in 1997 by the "Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation" with English commentary by S. P. Sabarathnam.
The 29 September 2003 edition of the Deccan Herald
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had an article on Mayan by R.R.Karnik,
The originator of all these ancient sciences is one known as Mayasura of the same tribe that constructed the mayasabha of Mahabharata. But the period is that of Ramayana some 16,000 years ago. He is the father of Mandodari and father-in-law of Ravana. One of his niece was Sita, who had married Rama and [by] an error of judgement started the epic war. He was master in many subjects. Some of these are: Vastu Shastra, Jyotirganita-Surya Siddhanta, Aintiram, ... cartography, fundamental physics, the Brahma principle, the yogashastra etc. His contribution to Aesthetics ... was highly appreciated by late Prof. [Surendra] Barlinge.
Tamil mysticists think that all of human culture is derived from the "Mayonic tradition", including that of mesoamerican Maya civilization
Maya civilization
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
. Intrigued by the homonymy, G. V. Sthapati visited Central America and "traveled throughout that region visiting ancient monuments and meeting with modern Mayan representatives."
Literature
- Er. R. R. Karnik, Ancient Indian Technologies as Seen by Maya, the Great Asura
- Er. R. R. Karnik, Yuga, Mahayuga and Kalpa (1996) http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1996_7/msg00172.html
- S.P. Sabharathnam, Mayan's Aintiram : With Tamil Texts of Mayan and Paraphrasing with English Translation, Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation (1997), OCLC: 47184833.
- V. G. Sthapati, An overview of Mayonic Aintiram, Shilpi Speaks series 1 http://www.vastuved.com/publication.html
- Bruno Dagens, Mayamata : Traité Sanskrit d'Architecture, Pondichéry : Institut Français d'Indologie (1970), OCLC: 61978029.
- Bruno Dagens, Mayamata : an Indian treatise on housing, architecture, and iconography, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Scientific Research (1985), OCLC: 15054108; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Motilal Banarsidass (1994), OCLC: 60146035.
- Phanindra Nath Bose, Principles of Indian śilpaśāstra with the text of Mayaśāstra, Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot (1926), OCLC: 3354836.
- Aintir̲am, Directorate of Technical Education, Cen̲n̲ai : Tol̲il Nuṭpak Kalvi Iyakkakam (1986), OCLC: 19172544
- K S Subrahmanya Sastri; O A Nārāyaṇasvāmi Ayyar, Mayamatam, Śrīraṅkam : Śrī Vāṇī Vilāsam Patippakam (1888), OCLC: 13891788.
- Dr. Jessie J. Mercay, Fabric of the Universe, www.aumscience.com