This message is particularly for Venkatesh.... for his response
a way of understanding past -
www.h.arch = always ask all the "W"s - where, when and why - from where it came, when and why,/ how (h)/ always (a) remember (r) the most common (c) head (h) creates the materialistic world. Perhaps genius only communicates. Any comments?
I think we all need to discuss and put forth our views on it. I think ( though there may be more) there are two types of messages the ancient people left us.
intentional and unintentional.
monuments and inscriptions are intentional messages. they wanted these to last for eons so that the future generations would know about them the un intentional messages are clues they left behind as remnants of their living methods from which we decipher.
of course understanding both are prone to errors. in the intentional clues for example we have a pallava inscription in the big temple when the pallavas had died out a couple of hundred centuries back. common sense tells us it was a rock that was cannibalised from another temple.
and in the unintentional ones the errors come mostly on the human side. the man who interprets it may be mistaken. as sriraman rightly said sometimes conclusions are formed before the search begins. it comes mostly out of a want to make an earth shattering discovery.
the most difficult person is to question is ourselves. sometimes our beleifs have to be questioned not once but many times.
I think we all need to discuss and put forth our views on it. I think ( though there may be more) there are two types of messages the ancient people left us.
intentional and unintentional.
monuments and inscriptions are intentional messages. they wanted these to last for eons so that the future generations would know about them the un intentional messages are clues they left behind as remnants of their living methods from which we decipher.
of course understanding both are prone to errors. in the intentional clues for example we have a pallava inscription in the big temple when the pallavas had died out a couple of hundred centuries back. common sense tells us it was a rock that was cannibalised from another temple.
and in the unintentional ones the errors come mostly on the human side. the man who interprets it may be mistaken. as sriraman rightly said sometimes conclusions are formed before the search begins. it comes mostly out of a want to make an earth shattering discovery.
the most difficult person is to question is ourselves. sometimes our beleifs have to be questioned not once but many times.