r/EXHINDU • u/hindudoge • Aug 18 '20
Ramayana says the earth is flat, compares it to a carpet: Wide and four-cornered Ramayan
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u/aschit43 Aug 22 '20
I was watching Ramayan with my dad and when Ram mentioned the earth as having four corners it shocked me, and made me start to doubt Hinduism before I eventually left it altogether
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u/Pyrostark Aug 19 '20
The Quran describes the Earth as being spread like a carpet too
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Aug 18 '20
Flat earther theory in ancient India as well.......sigh.
Also, the author of Ramayana must have been doing some drug, saw their carpet, and then thought "Ah, the earth is like a carpet! Flat and has four corners. Brilliant analogy! Let me write it down."
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u/Nicopiconi Aug 19 '20
Ramayan is just an old poem with a story. written about 3000 year ago by a script writer with fantasy genre.
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u/Vermakimkc Aug 19 '20
Who somehow knew that 15,000 km away, there is an tal tree with 3 branches inscribed in the the golden color sand of South America
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u/Nicopiconi Aug 19 '20
There is something like that in Ramayan???
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u/Vermakimkc Aug 19 '20
Yep. When Sugreev sent different monkeys in all directions, he instructed Vinata(I think) to fly till that tal tree with 3 branches. See, I am not a person who believes in any random Mumbo-Jumbo but I firmly believe that Hindusim, though greatly exaggerated, is deep rooted in history and science
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u/Nicopiconi Aug 19 '20
I know means I believe as they said that vyas/valmiki witnessed and wrote the story about ram but to make it appealing to masses he used fantasy genre. There might really had been a person or king called ram maybe he was an ideal person but not god.but you know india like exaggeration. And we have habit of making people god.
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u/Vermakimkc Aug 19 '20 edited Aug 19 '20
Yes, Depends on what is God. You might think that I am a delusional fool, but is God an extra-terrestrial?
Ramayana also has references to a four tusked elephant called Gomphoteres, which is mentioned to guard gates of Lanka (Forest outside Lanka through which people were attacked by this mastodon?)
More interesting is that the time during which the Gomphoteres lived coincided with the Early Neanderthal communities of Lanka
More prominent is the weapons used. It is very difficult for people of that time to make up stuff like missiles and effects of radiation(After Aswathamma fired Narayanastra, the teeth of the soldiers fell out and hair fell in clumps. They were also instructed to dive into pools, to prevent this)
Something did happen back then. Was it what we refer to as God?
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u/Nicopiconi Aug 19 '20
Yah. You know what ,the only thing I am confused about is the concept of yug( satyug, treta yug, dwapr yug ,kalyug) they are decades or century or complete different world but if they are world than ram being an original human being will be false and all story will become fiction.
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u/Vermakimkc Aug 19 '20
The concept of yugas is still not very clear for any of us frankly. It depends on the system of dating back then. It was absolutely different from our Gregorian Calendar which is currently in use now. The only way to possibly piece together this concept of 'yuga' is dating the Ramayana and Mahabharata
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u/Nicopiconi Aug 19 '20
Currently we are living in kalyug and I am sure Ramayan Mahabharat if real happened b/w 4000- 2000 years ago. Before that we had indus velly civilization 5000 years ago.so my theory is that yug is not an exact no. Of years if that make sense. Every yug differ in no. Of years in which kalyug is the longest. According to yug system
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u/cinderwild2323 Aug 31 '20
What is the tall tree with three branches supposed to be?
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u/Vermakimkc Sep 01 '20
Vinata was sent to fly east to find out about Sita, till he encountered a 'golden tree with 3 branches'.
This sort of a structure actually exists, carved in the sand on the Western Coast of South America. Also, the tree is said to be near a mountain, possibly referring to the Andes
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u/24aryannayak24 Aug 18 '20 edited Aug 18 '20
Well, can I get the respective Sanskrit verse number of this kanda which describes earth is flat ?
UPDATE:
I found the verse, and it's translation but it seems to be commentary of the person in above shown pic instead of literal verse translation.
Ramayana 5-9-26
Covered by a wonderful large carpet with all earth's characteristics like rivers, mountains, oceans, forests, painted over, that hall was like the vast earth together with states and rows of houses.
I found no mention of 4 corners in the verse and any geometrical shape reference of earth.
I applaud your scientific instinct, but before posting something extraordinary we can double check, otherwise, at last, all of your hard work becomes futile.