Home Articles Books Activities Contact Links		Mahavira This is one of the great specimen which helps us to link up the missing history of the Nadars with some of the greatest Saints and rulers of India. This particular sculpture of Saint Mahavira is found installed in a famous temple at Nagercoil in the Kanyakumari district. It is noteworthy that on the left hand side of this Saint, a few feet away, is depicted the mother goddess of 'Santors', Mahakaali, in the same temple. There are evidences that the Chera dynasty (Villavas) honored this Mahavira (Jain) tradition almost to the end of the 19th century A.D. It is unfortunate things have taken an ultimate different turn in the 20th and 21st centuries falling prey to the trends of Sanskritisation. Can the researchers unearth some of the hidden truths of history?		"The Dravidian Lineages - The Nadars Through The Ages", a book on the history of an ancient Dravidian community in India, known by more than 300 different names and scattered throughout India, presently cornered to the lower realms of social order as an effect of the long Indo-Aryan conflicts. This book is now available. Please click here for more information.
		___________________________________ Privacy :: Copyright :: Contact :: Feedback