(Message is being resent - please disregard if already received) List members Clarence E. Dutton, who was working for Major John Wesley Powell had briefly passed through the Yale Divinity school named various points in the Grand Canyon based on Hindu and other religious icons. Authority: An entry on Clarence Dutton maybe found in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica besides wide reporting on this subject. An excerpt of the book "Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon District" by Clarence E. Dutton can be found at http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam1394.htm An interesting Indian perspective from a traveller - Air Vice Marshall Vishwa Mohan Tewari may be found at http://www.indianest.com/travels/004a.htm And since this topic is about naming patterns it maybe noted that Yale university was named after Elihu Yale because of an endowment that he made the university based on a fortune he amassed as Governor of Madras in 1687. (Authority: see http://www.yale.edu/about/history.html and here for a bio http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Y/Yale-E1li.asp ) Thanks Srinivasan Sriram --- In SriRangaSri@xxxx, "Ram Anbil" <Ramanbil@xxxx> wrote: > Dear Bhagavatas: > Here is a mail from Sri M K Srinivasa Iyengar Swami, one of our Board members. I have no idea about this. > > Can any one of our group throw any light with proper authority? > Moderator > ====================================================================== > From: "M K Srinivasan" <m.k.srinivasan@xxxx> > Reply-To: m.k.srinivasan@xxxx > To: "Anbil K Ramaswamy" <ramanbil@xxxx> > Subject: (No Subject) > Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 01:14:33 +0530 > > Dear Sri Ramaswamy, > Last weekend we had been to Grand Canyon. An awe-inspiring sight, grand like > Himalayas. There, I was intrigued to find sites referred to as Vishnu temple, > Brahma temple and Siva temple etc. > > There was a location called "Vishnu Schist" at the very bottom of the Canyon, > several thousand feet deep. Can you tell what these places signify? > > In Ramayana, there is a reference to the sixty thousand sons of king Sagara > digging deep into the earth in search of the Aswamedha sacrificial horse and > reaching Patala and finding Kapila Muni (incarnation of Vishnu) who cursed > them to ashes for having disturbed his penance. > > Incidentally, some years back one scholar had done some research in the > Indian-sounding names abroad and had said that California is a transposition > of Kapila-aranya, the forest of Kapila maharshi! > > Then, schist means a "split rock". Does this have any significance? > > Can you or any of your friends clarify whether there is any link between the > Ramayana episode and the Canyon names? > > Yours sincerely, > M.K.Srinivasan > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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