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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
> 
> 
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