RAVANA'S IN LAWS WERE MEXICAN?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar told an interesting fact yesterday about Mandodari, who was Ravana's wife and queen of Sri Lanka. 

On Dussehra eve, in satsang, Gurudev shared a very fascinating fact about Ravana's wife Mandodari that really made me wonder that even without wireless internet & mobile phone technology, people from different far away continents were so deeply connected.

Mandodari was the queen consort of King Ravana in Sri Lanka. In North India, people celebrate Dussehra by burning huge effigies of King Ravana and his brothers Kumbhkaran and Vibhishana as a celebration of victory over evil. Dussehra is the day when Lord Rama won the battle by killing evil Ravana who had abducted his wife Sita.

Coming back to Mandodari, Ravana's wife. Not much is written in Ramayana about her except for the time when she protected Sita from Ravana's wrath when the latter refused to marry Ravana after being abducted.

Mandodari was the daughter of a king called Maya. King Maya belonged to the asura clan was called Mayasura who lived in Mexico. He and his lineage have built many engineering marvels in India and Lanka through the times. Mayasura was a descendant from the lineage of 'Vishwakarma', the architect.

Vishwakarma etymologically comes from the word 'Vis' which means to pervade, which is also the root for the word Vishnu.

So biologically, Mayasura from Mexico was the father -in law of King Ravana. He even built the wonderful capital of Lankapuri for his daughther Mandodari and son- in law in the island of Lanka. Isn't this beautifully amazing? A King from Sri Lanka got married to a princess from Mexico in South America in those days.

Descendants of  Maya - the Vishwakarma clan helped build other structures as well.

Ramayana mentions the famous bridge called Rama Setu that was used by Lord Rama and his army to cross the Indian ocean to reach Lanka. It was built by two brothers called Nala and Nila who were also of Vishwakarma descendants.

During Mahabharata period, the famous Indraprastha palace (that is modern day Delhi), was built by descendants of Mayan clan from Mexico. The Indraprastha palace had floors that gave illusion of water and water pools that gave illusion of floor. Such was the marvellous genius of the Vishwakarma descendants.

Today, a few families in Kumbakonam, a south Indian temple city are biological descendants of Vishwakarma clan and are still involved in temple constructions and creating other architectural marvels from their traditional literature.

Descendants of Mayan lineage still live amongst us in this day and age as engineers - they are the Vishwakarmas of today. They are not just labourers but skilled workers who know how to construct buildings, townships & ingenious structures and artists who do hand carvings in wood, metal & stone.

Isn't it enthralling to know that Indians have been connected to South Americans since the time of Lord Rama? It is truly a wonder how they must have travelled so far in those days and communicated and designed these marvellous structures without the help of modern technology that we know. Truly knowledge and skills have no boundary and are welcomed everywhere.

Copyright @ Kannu Priya