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ஏழுமலையானுக்கே "பட்டை நாமம்!”

திருப்பதி கோயிலில் தங்க டாலர்

"கோவிந்தா!”

மோசடி அதிகாரிகள் பதவியில் தொடரும் சங்கீர்த்தனம்!!!

திருப்பதி, ஆக. 8- திருப்பதி வெங்கடேஸ்வரா ஆலயத்தில் தங்கடாலர் விற்பனையில் மோசடி நடந்துள்ளது கண்டுபிடிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்த மோசடியை கோயில் ஊழல் தடுப்பு கண்காணிப்பு அதிகாரி ரமணக்குமார் அம் பலப்படுத்தி உள்ளார்.

திருப்பதி ஆலயத்தில் தங் கக்காசு மற்றும் டாலர் விற் பனைப் பிரிவில் பணியாற்றி வரும் கே. வெங்கடாசலபதி உள்பட பலர் இந்த மோசடி யில் ஈடுபட்டது தெரிய வந் துள்ளது. ரசீது இல்லாமல் 300 தங்க டாலர்களை (ஒரு டாலர் 5 கிராம்) பக்தர்களுக்கு விற் பனை செய்துள்ளதாக ஊழல் தடுப்பு கண்காணிப்பு அதிகாரி தாக்கல் செய்துள்ள அறிக்கை யில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. 2001 ஆம் ஆண்டிலிருந்து 2006 ஆம் வரையிலான காலத்தில் இந்த மோசடி நடந்துள்ளது.

இந்த மோசடி மூலம் கிடைத்த பணம் ரூ. 15.40 லட்சத்தை அவர் சொந்தமாகப் பயன்படுத்திக் கொண்டதும் தெரிய வந்துள்ளது.

இந்த மோசடிக்காக கே. வெங்கடாசலபதி தாற்காலிக மாக சஸ்பென்ட் செய்யப்பட் டுள்ளார். வழக்கு முடியும் வரை அவரை பணியில் சேர்க்கக் கூடாது என்றும் பரிந்துரைக் கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

தங்கம் மற்றும் வெள்ளி டாலர் விற்பனையைக் கண் காணிக்க 3 கண்காணிப்பாளர் கள் உள்ளனர். மோசடி நடந்த காலத்தில் கண்காணிப்பாளர் களாக இருந்த சந்திரசேகர ரெட்டி, ராமமூர்த்தி, ராதுராமி ரெட்டி ஆகியோர்மீது குற்றச் சாட்டு பதிவு செய்து ஓய்வூதி யத்தை நிறுத்தி வைக்க பரிந்து ரைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. கோயில் பொக்கிஷ அதி காரி சேஷாத்ரி 2 நாள் விற்ப னைக்குத் தேவைப்படும் தங்கக் காசுகள் மற்றும் டாலர்களை மட்டுமே பணியாளர்களிடம் கொடுக்க வேண்டும். ஆனால் இவர் 2 மாதத்துக்கு ஒரு முறை ரூ. 2 கோடி அல்லது 3 கோடி மதிப்பிலான தங்க டாலர் களை மொத்தமாக கொடுத்து விடுவாராம்.

தங்க டாலர்களை காண வில்லை என்று 2006 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஜூன் 22 ஆம் தேதி தெரிய வந்தது. ஆனால் அவர் ஓய்வு பெறும் ஆகஸ்ட் 22 ஆம் தேதி வரை அதை மறைத்து விட்டார். அதன் பிறகு தனது செல்வாக்கைப் பயன்படுத்தி பணி நீட்டிப்புப் பெற்றுவிட் டார் என்று ஊழல் தடுப்பு அதிகாரியின்  அறிக்கையில்  கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.  உண்மை அறியும் சோதனையில் இந்த மோசடியில் இவருக்கு தொடர்பு இருப்பது தெரிய வந்துள்ளது என்றும் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. இவர் மீது குற்றச்சாட்டு பதிவு செய்ய பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டுள் ளது. உடனடியாக அவர் பணி நீக்கம் செய்யப்படவேண்டும் என்று பரிந்துரைத்துள்ளது.

மற்றொரு ஊழியர் வாசு தேவனை வேறு பணிக்கு மாற்ற பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

பல்வேறு முறைகேடுகளில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ள வேறு சிலர்மீதும் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க பரிந் துரைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

தங்க காசு மோசடி குறித்து போலீஸ் சிஅய்டி பிரிவு தனி யாக விசாரணை நடத்தி 2008 ஏப்ரலில் குற்றப்பத்திரிகை தாக்கல் செய்துள்ளது.

இருப்பினும் சேஷாத்ரி போன்ற அதிகாரிகள் பணியில் தொடர்ந்து நீடிக்க அனுமதித் திருப்பது குறித்து ஊழல் தடுப்பு அதிகாரி வியப்பு தெரி வித்துள்ளார்.

திருப்பதி வெங்கடேஸ்வரர் ஆலயத்துக் குச் சொந்தமான ரூ. 50 ஆயிரம் கோடி மதிப்பி லான நகைகளை தனி நபர் பொறுப்பில் வைத்திருப்பது பாதுகாப்பானது அல்ல என்று கண்காணிப்பு மற்றும் பாது காப்பு அதிகாரி ரமணக்குமார் பரிந்துரை செய்துள்ளார்.

ரூ. 50 ஆயிரம் கோடி மதிப் பிலான நகைகள் பதவி நீடிப் பில் உள்ள ஓய்வு பெற்ற அலு வலர் ஒருவரின் பொறுப்பில் இருந்தது குறித்து அவர் வியப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

மேலும் கடந்த சில ஆண்டு களுக்கு முன் ஆலயத்துக்குச் சொந்தமான சில நூறு கோடி கள் மதிப்புள்ள பெரிய வைரம் உடைக்கப்பட்ட விவகாரம் மூடிமறைக்கப்பட்டதையும் கண்காணிப்பு மற்றும் பாது காப்பு அதிகாரி சுட்டிக்காட்டி உள்ளார்.

திருப்பதி ஆலய நகைகள் பராமரிப்பு குறித்து ஆய்வு செய்து அவர் அறிக்கை தாக் கல் செய்துள்ளார். அதன் விவ ரம்: திருப்பதி ஆலயத்தில் 1996 ஆம் ஆண்டு வரை நகைகள் மிராசுதார் பொறுப்பில் இருந்து வந்தது. ஆண்டு தோறும் ஒரு மிராசுதார் இந்த நகைகளை தனது பொறுப்பில் வைத்தி ருப்பார்.

ஓராண்டு முடிந்த பின்னர் அடுத்த மிராசுதாரிடம் ஒப் படைத்துவிடுவார். இந்த ஒப் படைப்பின் போது அதிகாரி கள் நகை மதிப்பீட்டாளர்கள் உடன் இருப்பார்கள்.

மிராசுதார் முறை கைவிடப் பட்டது. அதன் பிறகு கோயில் விதிப்படி, கோயில் தலைமை அதிகாரி பொறுப்பில் இருக்க வேண்டும். ஆனால் கடந்த பத்தாண்டுகளாக பி. சேஷாத்ரி பொக்கிஷப் பொறுப்பாளராக இருந்து வந்துள்ளார். எப்படி நீண்ட காலம் தனி நபர் பொறுப் பில் பொக்கிஷமும் நகைகளும் ஒப்படைக்கப்பட்டன என்ப தற்கு உரிய பதில் இல்லை.

ஆண்டுதோறும் நிதி ஆலோ சகர் நகைகளை பரிசோதனை செய்கிறார். ஆனால், இவர் கூட நகைகளின் எடையை சோதிக்க முடியுமே தவிர, வைர நகை போன்றவை அசலா? போலியா? என்று கண்டுபிடிக்க இயலாது. மேலும் உரிய காலத்தில் சோதனை நடத்தப்படவில்லை என்பதும் விசாரணையில் தெரியவந்துள்ளது.

எனவே, கோயில் நகைகளை பாதுகாப்பாக வைக்க வேண்டியது அவசியமாகிறது.

உலகைக் காக்கும் கடவுள் எனப்படும் கோவிந்தன் சொத்தையே மனித அதிகாரிகள்தான் காத்திட வேண்டியுள்ளது. ஏழுமலையானால் எதுவும் கையாலாகாது என்பதும் வெட்ட வெளிச்சமாகியுள்ளது.

The following News Item has appeared in today’s (29/07/2008) Times of India :-

 http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOICH”login=default

'Sethu doesn't exist': Govt relied on archaeologists, geographers   -   Akshaya Mukul | TNN

New Delhi: The government's view that Ram Sethu did not exist is largely based on extracts from works of renowned archaeologists and geographers, including pro-RSS historian B B Lal, who had studied material evidence to dismiss the claim of a bridge built by Ram's army.
   The culture ministry had asked HRD ministry to seek the views of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) to form its opinion. Culture ministry sources said ICHR cited works of archaeologists like H D Sankalia, B B Lal, H Parker, geographer O H K Spate and Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, to prove that talk of a bridge was fictional with no historical evidence.
   Sankalia's seminal work 'The Ramayana in Historical Perspective' quotes Ramayana stating how Ram first used burning arrows to subdue the sea, resulting in the sea coming up in human form and promising to build the bridge. Later, Sankalia quotes Ramayana, "Vanaras began to fill up the ocean with all sorts of trees without roots ? sal, asvaparna, kutaju, arjuna, tada, tiloaka, timita, bilvaka, sataparna, karnikara, chuta ashoka. Later, huge slabs of stone were thrown. Thus a long bridge (mahasetu), ten yojanas broad (vistarna), and a hundred yojanas long (ayata) was built by Nala "
   With this as evidence, when Sankalia looked for them on the ground, he said, "At Rameshwaram, there is nothing but sand dunes known as teris. These are again of three types ? copper-red, brown and grey or white ? the first being the oldest and indicate in no uncertain terms what the nature of the country, say 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, was."
   He also said except a few palm trees and one or two others, nothing else grows there even today. Also, "no stone is available there, unless one goes several miles inland, and brings slabs after breaking the rocky hills".
   Sankalia also pointed out, "Whatever the exact connotation of the length (100 yojanas) and breadth (10 yojanas) of the bridge given in the epic, anyone who has actually visited the spot or knows the present distance between the two points, will have to say that this bridge was the longest ever to have been built anywhere in the world, just with tree trunks and stone slabs. Indeed, the whole thing is one of the grandest feats of imagination, and so is the description of Lanka which follows."
   Lal was clinical in his view. In his 'The Earliest Civilization of South Asia', Lal wrote, "The northern end ? the Jaffna peninsula ? is hardly 30 km from the mainland.
   The intervening sea is shallow and it is not unlikely that even during a mild Ice Age when some of the sea-water got locked up as ice in the Himalayas, a few land-strips may have surfaced, hoppingly connecting the mainland with Sri Lanka."
   Parker, while denouncing the theory of bridge as "poetic fiction", said, "Such a slight foundation for it as the spread of the Hindu religion, or Aryan civilisation, among the tribes of the south must be swept away so far as Ceylon is concerned, since the descendants of the original inhabitants of the island, the Vaeddas of the interior, have never adopted the worship of the Hindu gods, nor, until historic times, the civilisation of the Aryans."
   Spate said, "Adam's bridge itself is basically a coral reef killed by an uplift and consolidated into coral rock."

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furnihing two links alongwith the relevant portions for their
consumption.

1. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556839/indus_valley_civilization.html

Indus Valley Civilization
(2500?-1700 bc), earliest known civilization of South Asia,
corresponding to the Bronze Age cultures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia,
and Crete (Kríti). The remains of settlements belonging to this culture
have been found throughout the Indus River valley in Pakistan, westward
along the coast to the Iranian border, in India's northwestern states
as far east as New Delhi, and on the Oxus River in northern
Afghanistan. The Indus Valley civilization encompasses one of the
largest geographical areas covered by a single Bronze Age culture.

2. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Ancient/Indus2.html

Web site created by: Vinay Lal
Associate Professor of History, UCLA

Indus Valley Civilization.

The earliest traces of civilization
in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along, or close,
to the Indus river. Excavations first conducted in 1921-22, in the
ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, both now in Pakistan,
pointed to a highly complex civilization that first developed some
4,500-5,000 years ago, and subsequent archaeological and historical
research has now furnished us with a more detailed picture of the Indus
Valley Civilization and its inhabitants. The Indus Valley people were
most likely Dravidians, who may have been pushed down into south India
when the Aryans, with their more advanced military technology,
commenced their migrations to India around 2,000 BCE. Though the Indus
Valley script remains undeciphered down to the present day, the
numerous seals discovered during the excavations, as well as statuary
and pottery, not to mention the ruins of numerous Indus Valley cities,
have enabled scholars to construct a reasonably plausible account of
the Indus Valley Civilization.

Some kind of centralized state, and
certainly fairly extensive town planning, is suggested by the layout of
the great cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. The same kind of burnt
brick appears to have been used in the construction of buildings in
cities that were as much as several hundred miles apart. The weights
and measures show a very considerable regularity. The Indus Valley
people domesticated animals, and harvested various crops, such as
cotton, sesame, peas, barley, and cotton. They may also have been a
sea-faring people, and it is rather interesting that Indus Valley seals
have been dug up in such places as Sumer. In most respects, the Indus
Valley Civilization appears to have been urban, defying both the
predominant idea of India as an eternally and essentially agricultural
civilization, as well as the notion that the change from 'rural' to
'urban' represents something of a logical progression. The Indus Valley
people had a merchant class that, evidence suggests, engaged in
extensive trading.

Neither Harappa nor Mohenjodaro
show any evidence of fire altars, and consequently one can reasonably
conjecture that the various rituals around the fire which are so
critical in Hinduism were introduced later by the Aryans. The Indus
Valley people do not appear to have been in possession of the horse:
there is no osteological evidence of horse remains in the Indian
sub-continent before 2,000 BCE, when the Aryans first came to India,
and on Harappan seals and terracotta figures, horses do not appear.
Other than the archaeological ruins of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, these
seals provide the most detailed clues about the character of the Indus
Valley people. Bulls and elephants do appear on these seals, but the
horned bull, most scholars are agreed, should not be taken to be
congruent with Nandi, or Shiva's bull. The horned bull appears in
numerous Central Asian figures as well; it is also important to note
that Shiva is not one of the gods invoked in the Rig Veda. The revered
cow of the Hindus also does not appear on the seals. The women
portrayed on the seals are shown with elaborate coiffures, sporting
heavy jewelry, suggesting that the Indus Valley people were an urbane
people with cultivated tastes and a refined aesthetic sensibility. A
few thousand seals have been discovered in Indus Valley cities, showing
some 400 pictographs: too few in number for the language to have been
ideographic, and too many for the language to have been phonetic.

The Indus Valley civilization
raises a great many, largely unresolved, questions. Why did this
civilization, considering its sophistication, not spread beyond the
Indus Valley? In general, the area where the Indus valley cities
developed is arid, and one can surmise that urban development took
place along a river that flew through a virtual desert. The Indus
Valley people did not develop agriculture on any large scale, and
consequently did not have to clear away a heavy growth of forest. Nor
did they have the technology for that, since they were confined to
using bronze or stone implements. They did not practice canal
irrigation and did not have the heavy plough. Most significantly, under
what circumstances did the Indus Valley cities undergo a decline? The
first attacks on outlying villages by Aryans appear to have taken place
around 2,000 BCE near Baluchistan, and of the major cities, at least
Harappa was quite likely over-run by the Aryans. In the Rig Veda there
is mention of a Vedic war god, Indra, destroying some forts and
citadels, which could have included Harappa and some other Indus Valley
cities. The conventional historical narrative speaks of a cataclysmic
blow that struck the Indus Valley Civilization around 1,600 BCE, but
that would not explain why settlements at a distance of several hundred
miles from each other were all eradicated. The most compelling
historical narrative still suggests that the demise and eventual
disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization, which owed something to
internal decline, nonetheless was facilitated by the arrival in India
of the Aryans.

I request those who are unable to
digest the points which I had raised to go through Prof Lal's work and
read the the last but one para - at the cost of repetition I am quoting
below:-

Neither Harappa nor Mohenjodaro
show any evidence of fire altars, and consequently one can reasonably
conjecture that the various rituals around the fire which are so
critical in Hinduism were introduced later by the Aryans. The Indus
Valley people do not appear to have been in possession of the horse:
there is no osteological evidence of horse remains in the Indian
sub-continent before 2,000 BCE, when the Aryans first came to India,
and on Harappan seals and terracotta figures, horses do not appear.
Other than the archaeological ruins of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, these
seals provide the most detailed clues about the character of the Indus
Valley people. Bulls and elephants do appear on these seals, but the
horned bull, most scholars are agreed, should not be taken to be
congruent with Nandi, or Shiva's bull. The horned bull appears in
numerous Central Asian figures as well; it is also important to note
that Shiva is not one of the gods invoked in the Rig Veda. The revered
cow of the Hindus also does not appear on the seals. The women
portrayed on the seals are shown with elaborate coiffures, sporting
heavy jewelry, suggesting that the Indus Valley people were an urbane
people with cultivated tastes and a refined aesthetic sensibility. A
few thousand seals have been discovered in Indus Valley cities, showing
some 400 pictographs: too few in number for the language to have been
ideographic, and too many for the language to have been phonetic.

I hope that this is adequate enough to prove that there is no evidence of Rama or Krishna in the Indus Valley Civilsation.

I happened to
read the article written by Dr. Satya Pal Singh, Commissioner of Police, Nagpur
in the Rediff.com posted on 14^th April 2008 on  “Proving the historicity of Ram”. ( http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/14guest.htm
)

At the outset
the article written by him is completely biased and is neither scientific nor
rational. It is not understood as to how a senior IPS officer, has devoted so
much of time in writing this article, inspite of his pressing duties as a Commissioner
of Police of a big city like Nagpur. If his approach is biased like this then
what will be the fate of the inquiries that are being dealt by him is a big question.
Definitely all the cases dealt by him must not have had a fair dealing.

No one in
this country ,irrespective of religion, caste or creed have ever questioned the
existence of Lord Ram. At times due to some compulsions some leaders would have
challenged. It is difficult to prove the events that have been narrated in the
Epics. At the same time, there is every likelihood of the events being
exaggerated. Once in a debate between Arignar Anna and  Professor R.P.Sethu Pillai, the former had
questioned about certain remarks made by Kambar in the  Kamba Ramayanam.  For this, Prof. Sethu Pillai had politely
replied that while narrating it in a poetic or  literary form, some imagination has been made
and  that should not be taken for challenging
the very existence of the Characters mentioned in the work. In the same way the
message narrated in the Great epics must be taken and instead trying to justify
the Historicity of Ram on the basis of what has been mentioned in the Epics
will not work out to be correct.

Dr Satya Pal
Singh has tried hard to prove that Lord Ram lived sometime between 18,149,108
and 869,108 years ago. For this he is also blaming the Western historians and
Anthropologists for their biased approach. It is realy unimaginable that Lord
Ram lived such long back. Even for argument sake if we accept that he lived
during that period, how is it that no other  evidence is available. After the happenings of
Ramayan between 18,149,108 and 869,108 and the Mahabarath sometime later, as
per Dr. Satya Pal Singh, no other incidents have taken place for so many tens
of thousands of years till the last 5000BC, which have not been recorded at
all. Does he mean that no important events took place in the intervening
period.

It has been
proved by the historians that the duration of the Indus Valley Civilisation was
between 3000 to 1500 BC. Those who want to refer may go to the following link:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization 

The duration
is specified right at the beginning itself. If Rama had lived , prior to this period,
then some evidence would have prevailed in the midst of the ruins of this great
civilisation. Unlike the demolishing of the Babri Masjid  in an attempt to erase evidences of History,
the ruins of the Indus Valley Civilisation are still there in Pakistan and the
Hindu activists can go , examine and search for evidences . Rama and Krishna
are Epic Icons of India , as such if they had existed prior to or during the
Indus Valley Civilisation then there would have been some reference . Researchers
have confirmed that the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilisation were
having links /trade with other civilisations. As such, whatever events that had
occurred prior to it must have had some sort of reference. Researchers have
also confirmed that the inhabitants were the followers of the Hindu Customs. So
if Rama and Krishna had existed prior to the Indus Valley Civilisation then they
would have worshipped them. It has been proved beyond doubt that the idols
found were that of Siva and Durga.

It is nothing
but making fools of ourselves. It is not understood why a section of the
people, are not accepting the reality. The people who are floating this theory
want to suppress the facts that the Aryans had invaded India from the Central
Asia and had overrun the Indus Valley Civilisation. As the existing
Civilisation was much superior, they have started to float the theories that
Lord Ram lived long back. If we are to accept the theory floated by Dr. Satya
Pal Singh then the Geography of the Indian Sub-continent itself has to be
changed. He himself accepts due to the long lapse of time there could be so
many changes. Definitely the Geographical/Geological features would not have
been the same as it is now or a few thousand years ago. It would have been drastically
different lakhs of years ago. After  the
recent Tsunami in 2004, the coastline is said to have changed. There are ample
proof that parts of  Poompuhar and Mahabalipuram
have been submerged in the sea a few hundred years ago. The Adams Bridge or the
Ramar Sethu is just a few hundred kilometers from the Poompuhar coast.  When Poompuhar has been subjected to sea
incursions, we cannot say what all would have happened to the Adams Bridge or
the Ramar Sethu over the years. So if we accept the hypotheses of Dr. Satya Pal
Singh, then to say that Lord Ram was born 
at the present Ayodhya and he constructed the Adams Bridge or the Ramar
Sethu, is not at all acceptable.  

It is a fact
that till the First Millennium BC, the languages in the Indian Sub-continent  were not being written.  In a bid to usurp the creativity of the Indus
Valley Civilisation, such theories are being floated, time and again.The
language/s spoken by the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation had a script
but has nothing to do with the Aryans. As the original occupants were conquered/driven
away,  they had lost touch of their
language and the place. It has been scientifically proved that  Brahui 
- the language spoken in the present Pakistan is the remnant of the
Indus Valley Civilisation and is a Dravidian Language. Further, the Aryans as
per their Vedas were the worshippers of the Nature and it only after they had
come to India they have adopted worship of the Idols and images. In the Indus
Valley, Idols and Image worshipping has been reported. Another factor is that
the dead were being burried as per the customs of the Indus Valley
Civilisation. Whereas the Aryans burn their dead. Thus these facts itself is
sufficient to prove that it was not an Aryan Civilisation. M/s. Jha and Rajaram
tried hard to prove that it is an Aryan Civilisation by fabricating but have
been exposed. Like that Dr. Satya Pal Singh wants to claim what is not a fact.
Luckily most parts of the Indus Valley Civilisation are now in Pakistan,
otherwise, it would have seen the same fate of the Babri Masjid and people like
Dr. Satya Pal Singh may later say that no such Civilisation was there at all.

It is a fact
that India has been invaded by the Muslims, Huns, Mughals  and the Britishers . None have denied it.
Similarly it is also a fact that the Aryans are originaly from the Central Asia,
have come down and settled in India. They are the first amongst the outsiders
to come to India.

Lord Rama had
set an example as to how as a Human being one should live and as to how a King
should rule. Let us follow it. But at the same time let us accept the fact that
the Ramayan and Mahabarath took place between 1500 BC and 500 BC. As true
Indians let us propogate the ideals taught by the Great mortals and not make
them as a mark of controversy.