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MOST ELABORATE, INFLUENTIAL
The Saiva Siddhanta system is the most elaborate,
influential and most intrinsically valuable and undoubtedly valuable of
all religions of India. It is peculiarly the South Indian and Tamil religion;
and must be studied by everyone who hopes to understand the influence of
the great South Indian People.
DR. GEORGE UGLOW POPE
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MERITS OF GREAT ANTIQUITY
There is no school of thought, and no system of
faith or worship that comes to us with anything like the claims of Saiva
Siddhanta. The system possesses the merits of great antiquity.
REV W GOWDIE
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CLEVEREST OF HUMAN THOUGHT
"The philosophical system of Saiva Siddhanta,
a system which may be ranked arnong the most perfect and cleverest of human
thought".
DR. KAMIL ZVELEBIL
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1,000,000 YEARS AGO
Shiva's temple is one of the surface points which
have been left high and dry by water on four sides. Conservative estimates
put the date when animal life was cutoff from the rest of the world as
at least 1,000,000 years ago.
TIMES OF CEYLON 17-6-1937
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THE WORLD WAS THRILLED
In September, the world was thrilled by the story
of the Ameri can scientists who scaled the ~'lost world" of Shiva's temple
in the Canyon of Arizona. Shiva's temple explorers found flint arrow head
and white footed mice.
CA VALCADE DEC, 18,1937-LONDON.
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PECULIAR TO SOUTH INDIA
The worship of Siva as Nataraja for example, is
a special cult peculiar to South India. The innumeYable shrines and images
con nected with its worship which as still there prove the pre-eminence
and popularity of this form of Siva in the South.
G.A.GANGOLY
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MOST STRIKING FEATURE
Tamil Saivaism teaches the reality of three categories,
God, Souls and Matter. In salvation the soul is united, but not identified,
with the deity. Its most striking feature is the disappearence of all the
harsh, capricious and a moral attributes of the Old Siva.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
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SIVA'S GRAND TEMPLE
'In the wild mountainous state of Colorado, seventh
largest in America, scientists of the U.S. Museum of Natural History three
months ago announced discovery of a "lost world". The focal point was Siva's
Grand Temple a half square mile of solid rock plateau, isolated from the
mainland by 9000 feet Canyons eroded by rivers some 200,000 years ago".
NEW REVIEW LONDON-23 SEPTEMBER 1937
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WORSHIP OF SIVA
Siva is a hunter God and numerous legends concerning
him suggest palaeolithic and early neolithic modes of life; hence his wor
hip probably comes down from the lithic stage of development of wman culture
in India. Sanskrit grammarians have not been able to liscover a satisfactory
etymology for the name of the God. It has been suggested that the name
is derived from the Tamil word for 'Red" because he is red God and that
name Rudra the red one is a anskrit translation of the Tam il name-stone
Age in India - pp.48 nd49.
PTS. IYENGER.
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TAMIL RELIGION
Indian religion is commonly regarded as the offspring
of an Aryan religion brought into India by invaders from the north, and
modified by the contact with Dravidian civilization-but-we might tell that
it would be more correct to describe the Indian religion as Dravidian religion
stimulated and modified by the ideas of foreign invaders. 'or the greatest
deities of Hinduism such as Shiva, Krishna, Rama,Durga and some of its
most essential doctrines are either totally unknown in the Vedas or obscurely
adumbrated in it. The chief characteristics of the nature of the Indian
are not the characteristics of religions in Persia, Greece, or other Aryan
lands.
SIR CHARLES ELLIOT G.O. GANGOLY
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