Deepavali
Topic started by Sofia Silva (@ net69-user135.be.ucla.edu) on Tue Dec 12 19:03:55 .
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I just would like to kno more about it!
I am a preschool teacher. Last year we had a mom who taught us about this holiday. This year we would like to acknowlege it once more because we had 2 Hindu friends in the classroom and we also want to make this winter holidays special for them.
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- From: Karthik (@ proxy1-external.bvrtn1.or.home.com)
on: Wed Dec 13 21:20:52 EST 2000
Sofia,
Please visit http://www.forumhub.com/expr/2286.00.18.44.html .
Happy Holidays.
- From: srj (@ globalb7.citicorp.com)
on: Fri Jun 15 13:48:59
Deepavali is a great festival.
- From: Nagarajan (@ dkf-gw.dkf.de)
on: Sat Jun 16 05:30:43
Deepavali is the festival of lights. In north India it is called as "Diwali". Like other festivals, we make lots of sweets and tasty food. People wear new clothes after taking an oil bath. The festival is generally associated with the killing of some demon (narakasura?) by a god (Durga?). For kids it means a day full of bursting crackers and fireworks. Usually the streets get littered with the paper from the fireworks. If some one is looking for a subject to do his/her ph.d thesis, probably the study of Diwali will be more than enough!
- From: fanny (@ cache155.156ce.maxonline.com.sg)
on: Sun Apr 11 01:17:06
oy... where are the pictures... so boring... make a better website lah...
- From: kuttyjapan (@ dsl-217-155-199-254.zen.co.uk)
on: Mon Oct 25 16:46:04
visit
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- From: Nedunchezhiyan (@ cache-mtc-ae05.proxy.aol.com)
on: Thu Nov 11 19:49:07 EST 2004
Thiru A P MASILMANI told us about Deepavali on the link below. http://forumhub.com/tlit/28677.8379.22.07.56.html
//Deepaavali is a Dravidian festival. Reasons:
1. Deepam + Aavali is a festival of the pre-Dravidians or proto-Dravidians of the subcontinent. Aavali comes from aavalam - clapping hands and dancing in a circle. Both are Tamil/Dr words. Thii+pu+am = thiipam. Not Indo-European.
2. It is mainly associated by the Purana writers to Krishna [ Karuppa(n) ] though there are other purana stories also. Krishna event is about 7000 years old long before the Aryans came in 1500 BCE. Krishna is clearly not a Brahmana. A shepherd (idaiyan who became king). The writer of Mahabharata was from a fisherman family.
3. The Aryans merely adopted the event and tried to make it into theirs!! All their stories concerning Deepavali are just fiction!! ...//
- From: Nedunchezhiyan (@ cache-mtc-ae05.proxy.aol.com)
on: Thu Nov 11 19:50:20 EST 2004
//..By another estimate, Krishna was born in 3228 BCE. This is also long before the advent of the Aryans (people who came from Iran side ).
Krishna story must have been in Prakrit before it was "translated" to Skrt. You know that Skrt took shape in about 350 ACE and thereafter. Thus it is common sense that the original could not have been in Skrt.
Many European writers during the colonial age thought that everything in Skrt was the original.
Of course, they did not have the evidence that historians now possess. Hence they went off course and drew wrong conclusions.
//
Nowday Thamizhars normally celebrate Deepavali by buying new clothes and going to the Temples. You can't say its a religious festival just because people go to Temples on this day. Like 'Nagarasan' said, "For kids it means a day full of bursting crackers and fireworks. Usually the streets get littered with the paper from the fireworks." and yes it is celebrated like a FESTIVAL.
- From: dr. veena (@ 61.3.241.69)
on: Fri Nov 12 02:20:47 EST 2004
how do i start a new topic
- From: Nedunchezhiyan (@ ac84b596.ipt.aol.com)
on: Fri Nov 12 21:28:39 EST 2004
Dr. Veena go to the following link which will take you to the new hub, 'THE HUB.' Then sign up an account and then post a new topic.
http://forumhub.lunarpages.com/hub/
- From: Dr. Veena (@ 61.3.241.69)
on: Sat Nov 13 05:17:41 EST 2004
Thankyou, Nedunchezhiyan.
- From: Dr. Veena (@ 61.3.241.68)
on: Sat Nov 13 11:45:35 EST 2004
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- From: Dr.Veena (@ 61.3.241.68)
on: Sat Nov 13 11:46:14 EST 2004
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- From: Dr.Veena (@ 61.3.241.68)
on: Sat Nov 13 11:48:01 EST 2004
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- From: Rahat Jaman (@ dhcp1200.iuj.ac.jp)
on: Fri Dec 17 16:07:55
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- From: davie (@ ecc-24.ecc.utep.edu)
on: Sat Dec 18 15:57:51 EST 2004
Dr. Veena
distortionuku voru distortiona???
4.Indian kings did invade foreign lands. Rajendra Chola invaded Sri Vijaya Empire which included Sumatra and Java.
that is the distortion for a distortion. sagikkala
- From: anand (@ illchn-static-203.199.245.1.vsnl.net.in)
on: Fri Dec 31 02:03:58 EST 2004
Nedunchezhiya,
U are supporting deepavali? Can't belive it!
It will surely diplease your mentors (late) EVR, anna & current mentor karunanithi.
Tell your friend about this topic
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