Tata Motors have soft launched their latest Passenger vechicle ,Hexa during the last week of December 2016.
The launch was through an event between 23 and 25 December.
As an Invitee representing Indiblogger,the Indian Blogging community, I attended the event at White Orchids,adjacent to Manyata Business Park,Nagvara,Bangalore on 24 December.
If one were to look at the car once wishes to buy in terms of safety,style,comfort and performance,the Hexa fits the bill.
Sturdy to look at without being monstrous or ugly,the Hexa has an important feature that allows one the luxury of not closing the eyes while the car is climbing up or swerves.
The Hexa drives uphill with least distance clearence ,effortlessly with excellent road grip.
The car goes up upto 31 degrees inclination with least discomfort.
As the car swerves one does not feel the strain for the Hexa moves at angle of 40 degrees.
And there is good road grip.
As a layman not versed in car mechanics or skills in driving, I can assert that one does not get jittery during these manevoures.
And these manevoures are common on Indian roads.
Well, I get jittery, my son and son in law tell me not to close my eyes,especially when I sit in the front seat.
The legroom and head clearance in the car is quite comfortable and one need not twist and turn to be seated.
Seven seats ensure a family can travel in comfort.
Another area while traveling in car is the worry of potholes and stagnant water.
With a clearence of 400 units against a normal 220, the Hexa does not get bogged down by slush.
And the pothole shocks are barely noticed.
For the comfort seekers,the interior is rich without being gaudy.
With options of 4 to 10speakers,Tweeters,subwoffer,the music lovers can enjoy.
And phone facility.
For the driver, one has optional Driver Information System(DIS).
Fiur Driving Modes,
Auto,Comfort,Dynamic and Rough Road.
Reversing sensors ensure smooth reversing.
And it is Diesel powered.
Mileage is said to be around 14 km per liter in city and 17.6 in Highways.
Expected date of launch, Mid January 2017.
Tata Hexa Specifications
Length x Width x Height
4788 x 1903 x 1791 mm
Kerb Weight
-NA-
Wheel Type and Size
19 inch alloys
Ground Clearance
200 mm
Engine Type/ Displacement
2.2 litre Varicor Diesel / Varicor 400 Diesel
Power
150 PS/156 PS
Torque
320 Nm/400 Nm
Transmission (Gearbox)
5 Speed Manual/ 6 speed Manual and 6 speed Auto
Mileage
12-15 KMPL (estimated)
Four Wheel Drive
Yes
Air Conditioner Type
Automatic Climate Control
Power Windows
Yes (4)
Central Locking
Yes
Steering Audio Controls
Yes
Audio System
Yes (Touchscreen)
Airbags
Yes (6)
ABS
Yes
Seen above are the official Tata Hexa specifications. The engine in the Tata Hexa is the familiar 2.2 litre VARICOR 320 and VARICOR 400 diesel motors. The more powerful motor produces 154 bhp and 400 Nm torque. These engines also power the Tata Safari Storme. The top models of Hexa will be available with either a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed automatic transmission. A torque on demand four-wheel drive system will be available on the top-end variant.
Guesstimate of price.
Tata Hexa Price in India
Tata Hexa XE 4×2 MT
Rs 11.99 Lakh
Tata Hexa XM 4×2 MT
Rs 14.43 Lakh
Tata Hexa XT 4×2 MT
Rs 16.70 Lakh
Tata Hexa XT 4×4 MT
Rs 17.70 Lakh
Tata Hexa XMA 4×2 AT
Rs 16.45 Lakh
Tata Hexa XMA 4×4 AT
Rs 17.50 Lakh
Tata Hexa XTA 4×2 AT
Rs 17.75 Lakh
For more, visit the first link or you may download Tata Hexa mobile application at Google play.
Though the Vedas do not directly speak of Shiva,He is referred to in Sri Rudram, addressed to Rudra, a manifestation, aspect of Shiva and Shiva’s name is kept in the middle of Sri Rudram.
There are Eight forms of Shiva Sahasranama, One Dasa Sahasranama(10,000 names),and a Rudra Trisati.
Lord Shiva seated in Yoga Posture
There seems to be no Trisati for Shiva.
Trisati is 300 names.
As Rudra is a form of Shiva, Rudra Trisati is used as Shiva Trisati
The Rudra Trisati is from the Rudram.
It is a different form of Sri Rudra recital.
I am providing Devanagari, Kannada and Tamil versions of the Rudra Trisari
Tamil Classics of the Sangam era speak of Three Conclaves of Poets (Tamil Sangam)
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According to Tamilian legends, there were three Sangam periods, namely Head Sangam, Middle Sangam and Last Sangam period. Historians use the term Sangam period to refer the last of these, the first two being legendary. So it is also called Last Sangam period (Tamil: கடைச்சங்க பருவம், Kaṭaissanka paruvam , or Third Sangam period (Tamil: மூன்றாம் சங்க பருவம், Mūnṟām sanka paruvam . The Sangam literature is thought to have been produced in three Sangam academies of each period. The evidence on the early history of the Tamil kingdoms consists of the epigraphs of the region, the Sangam literature, and archaeological data.
Approximately during the period between 400 BC to AD 200, Tamilakam was ruled by the three Tamil dynasties of Pandya, Cholaand Chera, and a few independent chieftains, the Velir.(wiki)
*In the Light of new evidence indicating that Poompuhar, Chola Port being dated by about 20,000 years ago,
Million year old Tamil site being found in Chennai and more evidence both archaeological in India and abroad,
The Tamils being considered as the forerunners of the MU civilization, which was in the periphery of Lemuria and
Tamils being the forerunners of the Olmechs who predate the Incas and Mayas,
the date of the Sangam needs revision.
The first Sangam was conducted in Then Madurai(South Madurai)
Present Madurai, Tamil Nadu is different.
the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, and numerous other pyramids and burial mounds; and the underwater ruins of Nan Madol that surround Pohnpei Island.THEN Madurai?
Thenmadurai was the capital of the Pandya Kings.
Meenakshi , the presiding deity of the present Madurai was a Queen of Madurai.
Her husband was Sundareswara, who is considered to be an Avatar of Shiva.
Meenakshi’s father Malathdwaja Pandyan participated in the Mahabharata War at Kurukshetra as an ally of the Pandavas.
Lord Krishna attended Tamil Sangam and he married a Pandyan Princess and had a daughter whom he got married to a Pandyan Prince, and
we have facts that tell us Parashurama, Balarama, Karna,Arjuna, Vidhura,and Agastya visited south Dravida Desa.
Rama’s ancestor Vaivaswatah Manu lived in the Dravida desa and migrated to Ayodhya because of a tsunami recorded in Tamil classics,Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharta and in foreign sources.
Foreign sources call this as the Great Flood and this finds reference in Christianity , Judaism and the legends of all civilizations of the world.
Manu, before migrating to Ayodhya meditated in Madagascar.
The present South Indian land mass seems to be only a fraction of the original land of the Dravidas.
The Land mass is being identified as Lemuria and there was another surrounding Lemuria which was also occupied by the Dravidas.
*It has to borne in mind that, while studying about such vast stretches of Time, the present land mass we have in India has no relevance to it.
Because of tectonic movements, India was at one point of time near the Arctic, where the rig Veda was composed.
Please check my article on this and also for all the statements I have made in this article.
So Dravida desa was in Lemuria and MU.
Tamil Kings ruled from there.
The Tamil Nadu Kings List runs to thousands of years.
‘The earliest explicit discussion of a katalkol(“seizure by ocean”, possibly tsunami) of Pandyan land is found in a commentary on Iraiyanar Akapporul. This commentary, attributed to Nakkeerar, is dated to the later centuries of the 1st millennium CE. It mentions that the Pandyan kings, an early Tamil dynasty, established three literary academies (Sangams): the first Sangam flourished for 4,400 years in a city called Tenmaturai, attended by 549 poets (including Agastya) and presided over by gods like Shiva, Kubera and Murugan. The second Sangam lasted for 3,700 years in a city called Kapatapuram, attended by 59 poets (including Agastya, again). The commentary states that both the cities were “seized by the ocean”, resulting in loss of all the works created during the first two Sangams. The third Sangam was established in Uttara (North) Madurai, where it is said to have lasted for 1,850 years.
The early Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas were ruling from there.
There is a view that the Cholas came much later and this needs further research.
This landmass had,
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Nakkeerar’s commentary does not mention the size of the territory lost to the sea. The size is first mentioned in a 15th-century commentary on Silappatikaram. The commentator Adiyarkunallar mentions that the lost land extended from Pahruli river in the north to the Kumari river in the South. It was located to the south of Kanyakumari, and covered an area of 700 kavatam (a unit of unknown measurement). It was divided into 49 territories (natu), classified in the following seven categories:[10]
Lemuria( in my opinion Lemuria is different from Kumarikandam, please read my article on this) had three major rivers, Pahruli, Nadu aaru and Peraaru( River is called Aaru in Tamil and major mountain ranges included the Malayamarutha and Kandhamanatha .
Please check my article Manu meditated in Madagascar where I have explained how the eastern and western ghats of the present Tamil Nadu reach up to Madagascar.
Then Madurai was a part of Dravida desa and the Pandyas ruled from there.
First Tamil Sanagm was conducted in Then Madurai.
‘ the first Sangam flourished for 4,400 years in a city called Tenmaturai, attended by 549 poets (including Agastya) and presided over by gods like Shiva, Kubera and Murugan. The second Sangam lasted for 3,700 years in a city called Kapatapuram, attended by 59 poets (including Agastya, again). The commentary states that both the cities were “seized by the ocean”, resulting in loss of all the works created during the first two Sangams. The third Sangam was established in Uttara (North) Madurai, where it is said to have lasted for 1,850 years.’
When Lemuria submerged during first Tamil Sangam, Then Madurai also got submerged.
Madurai is called as Naan Maada Koodal, city of Skyscrapers.
The traditional explanation of Naan Maada Koodal is what I have stated above.
The term Koodal is Tamil also means union , as in Husband and wife and also where Oceans meet.
In my opinion Koodal means where Oceans meet and this becomes clearer when one sees the landmass of Lemuria.
So, the present Madurai, Tamil Nadu could not have been the Then Madurai.
Then Madurai , in my opinion was called Koodal, where Oceans meet.
The present Madurai is also called as Koodal managar, remnant of History.
Now archaeologists have excavated a Town from under the sea in Micronesia.
It is called ,Naan Madol!
Nan Madol is a ruined city adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei that was the capital of the Saudeleur Dynasty until about 1628.It is in the present day Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state, in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. The city, constructed in a lagoon, consists of a series of small artificial islands linked by a network of canals.The site core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide and it contains nearly 100 artificial islets—stone and coral fill platforms—bordered by tidal canals.
The name Nan Madol means “spaces between” and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. The original name was Soun Nan-leng (Reef of Heaven), according to Gene Ashby in his book Pohnpei, An Island Argosy. It is often called the “Venice of the Pacific”.
Today Nan Madol forms an archaeological district covering more than 18 km² and includes the stone architecture built up on a coral reef flat along the shore of Temwen Island, several other artificial islets, and the adjacent Pohnpei main island coastline. The site core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide containing nearly 100 artificial islets—stone and coral fill platforms—bordered by tidal canals.
Carbon dating indicates that the construction of Nan Madol began around 1200 AD, while excavations show that the area may have been occupied as early as 200 BC. Some probable quarry sites around the island have been identified, but the exact origin of the stones of Nan Madol is yet undetermined. None of the proposed quarry sites exist in Madolenihmw, meaning that the stones must have been transported to their current location. It has been suggested that they were floated via raft from the quarry, and a short dive between the island and the quarries shows a trail of dropped stones. However, no one has successfully demonstrated or explained the process. Some modern Pohnpeians believe the stones were flown to the island by use of black magic.
In 1985 the ruins of Nan Madol were declared a National Historical Landmark. Currently, a greater effort is being made to preserve them’
I postulate that Then Madurai was a part of Lemuria and it is now found as Naan Madol
Indian philosophy and the Religion of the Hindus differ from other religions in that,
1. It has no founder.
2. It is not dogmatic and one can follow what one is inclined to.
3. It has no strict rules to follow in that it does not condemn you to Hell.
4. It does not proselytize.
Brahman, The Reality
5. No single individual is considered as the authority in matters relating Hinduism
6. It has no written texts and these have been transmitted orally for over five thousand years.
7.It accommodates all views including the Atheists; you can be an Atheist and still be A Hindu.
8.It fixes individual responsibility. You can not escape from the results of your actions by assigning it to some one else.
9. It treats all Beings and also the Insentient equally.
10. There is no procedure to become a Hindu nor is there any question of expelling some one from Hinduism and readmitting.
11. Indian philosophy is based on Intuition and experience , though Logic and other tools of knowledge are used to verify or support Knowledge gained by Intuition.
The systems of Indian philosophy have the following components.
a) Theory of Knowledge or Epistemology.
The systems decide first what knowledge is and proceed what instruments to use to gain Knowledge.
There are some instruments of Knowledge through which we gain knowledge.
Knowledge is taken at its core meaning, to be aware of.
That it is correct, incorrect, Right or Wrong comes later when judgement are made.
Facts are differentiated from Impression of Facts.
Prathyaksha. Is what is known through senses.
b)Anumana is Inference.
c)Upamana is Comparison , with similar things.
d) Tharka , Logic where Knowledge is derived from Logical steps through Syllogism.
e) Sabda , from Testimony fro others.
f) Intuition.
The tools of knowledge followed by a system decides its philosophy..
Systems of Indian Philosophy, Religion.
In India Religion and Philosophy are interwoven.
There is no separation of the two.
A philosophy not worth practicing is not considered at all.
Religion is to be experienced and there is no such thing as Practising Religion and non practicing religion.
Many believe, even Hindus, that the Vedas alone constitute Indian Philosophy.
Not true.
We have Jainism, Buddhism, Buddhism , Carvakas and Ajivakas whih form a parf Indian Philosophy.
They existed along with the Vedas.
And they were accepted.
Another feature of Hinduism is the definition of Atheism.
It has nothing to do with the belief in God.
One can be a Hindu and remain an Atheist ,like Carvakas, Buddhist,Ajivaka.
These are totally opposed to Vedas and deny their authority.
Orthodox systems are those which belive in the Authoroty of the Vedas.
Those, like Jainism are called Heterodox and they do not believe in the Vedas.
Even among the Orthodox systems which believe in the authority of the Vedas deny God, like The Nyaya System.
Philosophical systems are called Darsana.
Darśana, also darśana or darshanam, Sanskrit: दर्शन from dṛś, meaning “to see”, vision, apparition, or glimpse.
Though there are other meanings like The darsana of God/Holy men , in Indian Philosophy the term Darsana is used in the meaning meaning provided above.
It may be called as Perspective.
Reality or Truth has many facets.
One discerns what one is inclined to
The six systems of Hinduism are.
They are called the Shad (six) Darsana
Nyaya,the realism school emphasizing analytics and logic,
Vaiseshika,the naturalism school with atomistic themes and related to the Nyaya schoo
Sankhya, the rationalism school with dualism and atheistic themes,
Yoga,school similar to Samkhya but accepts personally defined theistic themes,
Purva Mimamsa or Mimamsa), the ritualism school with Vedic exegesis and philology emphasis
Uttara Mimasa or Vedanta, the Upanishadic tradition, with many sub-schools ranging from dualism to non-dualism.
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It has nothing to do with the belief in God.
One can be a Hindu and remain an Atheist ,like Carvakas, Buddhist,Ajivaka.
These are totally opposed to Vedas and deny their authority.
Orthodox systems are those which believe in the Authority of the Vedas.
Those, like Jainism are called Heterodox and they do not believe in the Vedas.
Even among the Orthodox systems which believe in the authority of the Vedas deny God, like The Nyaya System.
Please read my articles on FAQs of Hinduism.
I shall e writing in detail on each of these systems in detail.
