Ancient Burial Practices in Tamil Nadu | Keeladi
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2023
- The Keeladi excavations in Tamil Nadu have pushed the known timelines of ancient Tamil civilisation by at least three centuries. But puzzlingly, unlike most inhabited sites, the Keeladi sites did not reveal any human bones. Then, as archaeologists expanded the area under excavation, they reached a village called Konthagai, where they found a large number of skeletons and burial urns. Could Konthagai have been a burial site for Keeladi? How did ancient Tamils deal with death? What are burial urns and how do the findings at Keeladi, Korkai, Adichanallur and other places corroborate the information about Tamil burial rites mentioned in Sangam literature? This video digs deep into the different funerary customs practised in the oldest settlements of south India - from cremations and the use of burial urns to the erecting of hero stones and Nishidhi pillars to commemorate the dead.
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Government is hiding many fact of the Tamil Nadu atleast u people are bringing the awareness thank u
LOL what.. all these information are in public domain.. nothing is hidden here.. ASI is lazy in further excavations
It is the Central Government trying to hide Real truth by transferring A.S.I officer Amarnath Ramakrishna into Assam state without any explanation
The ASI of the Union Government INDIA even destroyed approximately approx. 40,000 ancient Tamil inscriptions and artefacts. This came to light when we compered what ASI reported year 2015 100,000 inscriptions out of which approx. 60,000 are Tamil inscriptions. However, when the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court pushed for a return of 60,000 inscriptions in turn, AS submitted in court that it only able to 28,000!!! What happened to the remaining 32,000? On top of that, what happened to inscriptions found from 2005~2022???? DESTROYED!!!! It's a form of planned Tamil culture extermination!!!!😢😢😢
U guys doing a good work especially with tamilnadu and it's history
Sponsored by government of Tamil nadu , so it’s no surprise. But the channel maintains good standards with most videos.
@@centaurkt047oh really? They never said that 🤔
@@krishna2555Right, it has to be said to be true!! Why don’t you just watch the videos opening credits
@@centaurkt047ah but I don’t see any credits to the government, say, funded by or promoted by? It’s just thanking.
@@krishna2555 sponsored can be non monetary, if you still want to get more clarity it’s better to contact the channel and ask them
This is really interesting. My husband 's native village is on the banks of the Thamirabarani and our family temple is literally on the river bank. While the rest of the village folk pray at the Amman temple inside the village we along with four other families and their descendants go every year to the family temple and the main deity is a nadukkal .
A two day Puja is done with the nadukkal as the central deity. While Amman temples all over Thuthukudi Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts celebrate the annual Amman kodai festival on Tuesdays of the chithirai or aadi month our celebration is always on the 18th and 19th of chithirai.
After watching this video it is obvious that some ancient ancestor had done some brave deed and was honoured with a nadukkal.
I have to say I'm really proud that my husband and children carry such wonderful dna
my mother has told me about muthumakkal thazhi.. amazed to hear that this is a historically verified practice.
நாங்கள் தமிழர்கள் ஈழமும் தமிலும் ஒன்றே நன்றி
தமிழும்
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ஈழத்தில் தாமிரபரணி என்ற ஒரு இடம் உண்டா ? நாம் நமது குமரிகண்டத்தை எப்போது நிரூபிப்போம்😢
I loved it! Thank you! As a Tamilian, I am hungry for these sort of information, tq once again, Jai hind!
100% Same Bro
Jai hind hindi, rest english ..but eager for tamil history .. epudra
@@TamilAnnam your point?
@@TheDevaser what was your point with the Jai Hind
@@TamilAnnam honestly, what’s your problem with Jai Hind???
In Tamilnadu salem dist thalaivasal place there is a chance of have old pots but archeological departments not interested for excavation wat to do pls help anyone
Nearby salem district, there is erode district which is home to kodumanal, an ancient cheras' industrial city. This city has ancient pots with tamil brahmi letters.
@@slilyjoshuva2491in erode it is excavated, but I mentioned place yet to do
@@kart8761 Yeah bro. Soon the government will excavate it.
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Am so impressed with the quality and content of your videos....All the very best...
From Sinauli to Keeradi there's so much to excavate and explore. Makes me excited.
Sinauli excavation is not related to South Indian culture or History
@@mscreationworks5787 I know. I am saying in general and whether South or North or North-East anything excavated in India is part Indian history.
@@Vor567tez Bro , According to the 2005 Report of ASI approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India , about 60,000 were in Tamil language .
Over 14,000 inscriptions belonging to the Telugu language .
About 25,000 inscriptions belong to kannada language
This makes Tamil and the two other South Indian languages like ( Kannada and Telugu) the most densely inscribed languages in the Indian subcontinent
@@mscreationworks5787 Wow. Where did you read that? I will like to know more in details. Is there a way to read the full report of ASI?
@@Vor567tez Yes , It was first reported in
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Nov 22, 2005 , The Hindu paper
Fantastic! I'm obsessed with history. Especially our south Indian history. I'm Sri Lankan, living in London and have watched all videos on your channel. Will share your channel on all what's app groups I'm part of. Keep up the good work. Please do a video about the origins and history of bharathanaatyam!
Amazing channel. Very informative. Well produced and superbly presented. Great work by both hosts. Keep the stories coming.
My admiration for the heritage of Tamil people grows with each of your enlightening videos 🙏🏽
I am humbled and thrilled about these findings. Imagine what more could be found using ancient DNA analysis on top? I am a product of humans migrating ever since we came to exist on the face of this planet. But I keep on giving myself narrowing and restrictive identities and borders. யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்!
"All the places on earth are our town and all the people are our relatives
(all are evolved from common ancestors)"
Beautifully narrated...thanks to both of u.😍
Love the channel. I do have a couple of suggestions however-
1. Make a pinterest board with all the highlights from videos. Easier for people who want to track this kindof stuff.
2. Add citations for resources used in video. Gives authenticity and helps us history lovers want to find out more about the subject.
3. Add names of related history books for further knowledge and interest.
Good job you guys
Good video!
Astonishing find by the Archaeology department!
Good work and well put together with the informations 👏👏👏
I can watch your videos all day , so interesting so clear so crisp.
and your voice ( both) is so soothing to hear.
thanks ! please upload more videos.❤️
Good presentation.nice to hear our forefathers funeral practices
Wonderful information 🙏🌻thanks a million....
You guys doing really good job❤
Appreciable work... Keep going 🎉
Thank ❤you 🙏 guys for this lovely video
Congratulations and Thanks to you, Sir!
The fact that Keezhadi did not yield any burial remnants till now is actually an extremely satisfying and enlightening evidence itself!
Our ancestors were so civilized and hygienic in their socio-economic structure that they respectfully laid their dead in a separate and isolated spots of land as "Idukaadu-இடுகாடு-burial land" and "sudukaadu-சுடுகாடு-crematorium" specially allocated for burial and cremation purposes alone.
Unlike other religions, Hindhus never installed burial or cremation sites in the midst of dwelling.
And even more as economic is that they never built cemeteries for the dead in most deaths.
They erected "Hero Worship Stones"-வீர வழிபாட்டுக் கல்" in the form of stone reliefs at the sport where the heroes met their fate. Most of these became "Clan Deities"-குல தெய்வங்கள். Only the most noble persons were offered a cemetary.
The excavations not yielding human bones may also suggest that they practiced cremation in most of the occasions of death in order to reduce the bone garbage. It was a practice in those days that after every big war, that were mostly engaged in far away fields preferable river banks,
people performed mass cremation on the mounds of dead warriors and horses and elephants.
Burning rituals are pretty modern. Probably happened after the bakthi period .
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For Aryans fire 🔥 was everything.
For Dravidians it was water
@@vijayvijay4123 Dravidians இல்ல தமிழர்கள். இது தமிழர்களின் வரலாறு. ரெண்டும் வேற வேற போட்டு குழப்ப வேண்டாம்.. திராவிடன் என்பது தென்னாடு பிராமணர்களை குறிப்பது.
போய் திராவிட பிராமண சங்கம் என்று தேடிப் பாரு தெரியும்.
அவுங்க தெளிவா சொல்றாங்க அது தமிழர்களின் வரலாறு என்று அப்புறம் என்ன திராவிட.
@@prathap994 Genetically Dravidian is a thing .
Do you know how the Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada were created?
They were purposefully created by mixing Sanskrit with Tamil, sort of linguistic terrorism
Thanks for sharing. This is a great discovery. How things change with time
Please make more videos. This is a great channel and very well made and presented and we need more because school didn’t teach much
excellence presentation of sacred knowledge.................Salute and Kudos from New York
you done a great job...
Thanks guys for ur Work
🎉 whole hearted wishes to the team for quality content and topic discussed upon. ❤
amazing work keep doing more videos on keezhadi
Watched One, Loved it.
Watched All, Subbed.
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Good effort in bring out the truth ....KEELADI INDUSTRIAL ZONE( smelting techno of over 1500c heat generated) dating back to 3000years old ...wht dies this implies?
Thamil Navigators reached Australia some 40k- 50k years ago....one way travel .
Great Sir! 🙏
Very informative...
For a change hearing correct pronunciation of Tamizh words feels great
Great work
Great work 👍👍👍👍
good job ...hatsoff
Great video
Thankyouuu guys❤
Beautiful video
Finally out❤...😊
salleganai is called in Tamil " vadakku iruthal" meaning sitting towards northside without food!
Thank you so much for sharing the facts in a very detailed manner. I'm so glad that I've found this channel because it'll be helpful for me to keep in track with my Indological studies as it's my great passion that I have since years. Nandri😊🙏
Fantastic
Appreciate the content and the presentation. Short and rich in content. Aporeciate the English and Tamil pronunciation.
Can't wait for this!
Wat u wait fr
Love it
Super video
Hats off❤
Amazing Work Guys.... 👏
much appreciation and thanks for your humble and erudite documentaries...peace from berlin...🙏...
Nice work, very well explained and thanks for posting this video 🙏🙏
One of the Long lasting , literature,culture, grammerical works, language, ruling dynasties, seafarers and longest inhabited pllaces, but everything about Tamils is being erased and we are enslaved by everyone we gave place to live ... A day will come when we raise....
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It is the time to end the oldest language debate.
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we follow the same practice still today 😊😊
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why would we want to share our culture with aryan invaders
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Can you make a video on 'Pandu Rajar Dhibi', an archeological site found in West Bengal (most probably 4000 years old) and Chandraketugarh?
Sara Mohan’s Tamil pronunciation is flawless…
Last 1870's ,in our agriculture land ,we found Muthumakkal Thazhi its neary more than 1000 years old we believed Reason ,my Grandpa name written "Azhagan ".So this word is derived from 1000 years b4 too.We are noticed that name too
Is place of worship must for archeological findings ..keeladi excavations prove what was written in Sangamon literature
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The Indus Valley Civilization with 5 million inhabitants spread over a 1000 km of river front came to a sudden end 1900bc.
It is important to note that no human remains consistent with an invasion at the time were found in excavations for the purpose.
But the area was active with the warring.barbsric horsemen of the Andronovo/Sintashta culture.
Therefore it appears that the large peaceful population of the IVC preempted an imminent invasion and annihilation by strategic and systematic evacuation of the valley and further migration east and south. In due course they nixed with the native hunter gatherers to become the ASI
It is not surprising that artifacts are found in tamil nadu dating back to the time of the exodus frim the Indus in 1900bc, maybe even older . The graffiti found in keezadi confirms the connection. There will be more with further excavations.
Did anyone find any human remains in/near dolmens? Were they really burial sites? Could you please make a video about them? I went to see one site in Tamil Nadu, because they are incredible.
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ஜெய் தமிழ் ஜெய் ஹிந்த்
Where can we find the sources ? நன்றி
There is a interesting thing to be told : The high ranking officers, Kings, Queens and other important personalise where cremated and coffins where provided to common man i.e only common man are buried in Indian traditions
All are equal after death. All are buried in " muthumakkal thazhi" during the era 100BC in Tamil nadu.
More than 4000 artefacts found in keeladi. Archaeologists found tools, toys, jewels, container vessels (pots), coins and even skeletons near by (கொந்தகை). But not a single Hindu Idol.
It clearly shows that our (Tamil) ancestors were not Hindus.
lol, there were no idols in Indus valley as well.
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Idol and temple worship are not mentioned in any of the vedas. These practices crept into Hinduism only after the advent of Buddhism and Jainism. Many of the buddhist and Jain temples were converted into Hindu temples.
The Vedic aryans were meat eaters and not idol worshippers.
@@aws8536 Not sure where you got the idea about idol worship coming from Jainism and Buddhism. We don't have much idea of the early Vedic people. If they were from India or migrated. Indus Valley civilization is not seen as Vedic people. Infact it is not even a kingdom. So we don't know when people started worshiping and making idols and having Kings and caste system. Probably came from Veda. But some other continuity in culture is seen. Yes, jain and buddhist temples in South India have been converted to Hindu temples. But that is not during ancient times, but rather in recent history ( After Pandya period ).
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Show me a Hindu scripture which was written prior to Buddha talking about idol worship.
FYI: I reiterate that no idol & temple worship mentioned in any of the veda
From zamin royapettah, near zamin pallavaram!
Mainly in Keeladi excavation, they found out that before 5000 yrs... There's no religion or caste system..... only language Tamil was spoken
These ancient archeological sites are invaluable in uncovering the lifestyles and practices of our fore fathers. These new discoveries reconfirm the antiquity of the civilizations that thrived in this region.
However, there is something odd in the narration. The gentleman is explaining about the ancient dead and burial practices with a smiling face which is totally at odds with the context. Or am I just imagining things?
He is a narrator and should be smiling. There is nothing sad about these burial places.
Wow 😮we should do a quick dna test, want to know whether we are related or not
DNA matches accross India. So only it is concluded that Tamil the only language which was there in this land thousands of years ago. We all spoke Tamil. This was stated by Dr. BR Ambedkar too..
@@DH-kq4hg BR ambedkar also said aryan dravidan theory is fake
@@DH-kq4hgThen how did Kannada come into existence?
@@bharatyaswaraj5641அம்பேத்கர் சொல்லி இருக்கலாம். ஆனால் வரலாறு சொல்வது 3000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் இங்கு ஆரிய இனம் இல்லை.தமிழன் தான் இருந்தான். அதற்குப் பிறகு தான் கைபர் கணவாய் வழியாக இங்கு வர ஆரம்பித்தான் என்று.
தமிழர்கள் எங்களுக்கு தெரியும் யார் தமிழன் ஆரியன் என்று.
@@prathap994 You guys Africans came from africa, just look at your black face and spring hair just like africans. Real Indians know who is indian who is african🤡
Hindus in other parts also practice burial long before Judaism was even born. Burials are usually reserved for Hindu monks or sadhus and children who haven't got their upanayan ceremony and whoever wants to be buried that way, rest go for cremation( maximum Hindus opt for cremation now). In fact, my mom's grandmom's sister had her ashes buried in a urn and a Allaya( its an Odia word for small cemented/thatched roof shaped graves of enlightened spirits who served humanity) erected to commemorate her, offerings were buried with her and my maternal house still gives her offerings as she led a pious life as a Hindu preacher of Bhagavatam and we are Odias, the only Indian group with no Muslim or Christian influence still existent to this day, pure Vaishnavaite Sanatani culture of the Odias.
Hindus also practice embalming, usually a sage's body is done so and worshipped or his ashes are collected in a urn and buried in a mound, worshipped like that for centuries, most of the Vaishnavaite ans Shaivite saints in Odisha are worshipped that way only. You don't get samadhis like that, Jains and Buddhists also do the same otherwise we won't get the crystallized remains of Buddha in various stupas too. These ancient Tamil practices are pretty consistent with rest of India as well as Indus valley civilization, although Veerakaals are only found in South India, we just have village deities of women/Men who fought with Mughal-Turkic-British rule, like Vasulei, Jagulei. There are immortalized in the history of Odisha as warriors who protected our culture from foreign invasions. Remember, Odisha was the last state in Northern India to come under Muslim rule, that too lasted for 2 decades and we had periods of independence and then, being a vassal kingdom. We are also the last state in India to enter the British empire in 1803, we might have been independent if Nepalese and Punjabis hadn't conspired against us.
Infinite fake data's keep it up
Infinite fake data's keep it up
It’s not Hindus.. term Hindus is just 200yrs old..
@@sureshbabu_33comments in Rajasthan it's common to bury people it's a desert there are no trees there.
@@RajRaj-eu6uu he is not saying they called themselves hindu he is saying they belong to same religion like us and did burials.
The skeletons had perfect white teeth? Did u guys notice?
make something for History of Gujarat region
There is an argument that disturbing these gravesites may not be in the best of tastes. After all, if you go by the belief, the dead probably do not like to be disturbed! That said, the burial of the dead brings us to a very modern problem; that of land usage.
There will eventually be more dead than the living, and the endless growth of cemeteries will start to eat up on areas for the living.
In our time, this is why many of those societies where the tradition has been to consign bodies to cemeteries are increasingly opting for cremations, since they - the dying - consider this to be the more responsible thing to do.
Please mention as keezhadi
Try to excavate new one which I told don't do the story on excavated one, help me in this regard
Reincarnation is not only a belief, it has been out that thousands can recall their past lives. Now in Australia an young teenager recalls that he was princess Diana in his past life and could pinpoint the things at Buckingham palace and had not visited UK.
There are many more. So dont call it a belief.
It is belief. Do not believe stories like the Australian man any more than somebody who predicted someone's future.
"Veeragal",the memorial stones for martyres and "Sati stones" are not found in TN,except in parts bordering K'taka.
This I read in another book.
Can you confirm that they are found as frequently as in K'taka?
It is found abundantly in Tamil Nadu and it is called as Nadukal most popularly.
It is found abundantly in Karnataka as well as in Telugunadu, Even in Kerala also.
Is there any genetic analysis of these skeletons?
Yes.. But the Indian govt didn't open it intentionally.. They trying to link this with vedic civization which doesn't exist in ancient times.
Ture indian government is intentional motives is Hiding the genetics results it will shake the very core of the entire sub continent
What found in konthugai were supposed to be the remains of the guys sneaked in from the so called 'steppe'! How to fix the AIT is increasingly becoming a humongous task! Meantime the dravidas can be rightfully proud of their heritage that is being unravelled.
Everybody "sneaked" in from somewhere. Dravidas did not magically sprout in their land. Such "heritage" is found in many many places on the earth in various forms.
@@sowmitriswamy6718 Not necessarily, as the proselytising colonisers and their cheerleaders wanted the natives to be! It could be the other way around! Let's follow the science and research.
@@rravisankar3355 Instead of using pejoratives why dont you come up with a clear argument of why current migration theories are incorrect and perhaps the world's original inhabitants were Tamil.
what a stupid comment.
@@rravisankar3355 you make it sound like a victim, but even Tamils and other Dravidians aren't native to this land tho, they stole it from linguistic racial groups similar to the Nihalis, Burusho, Onge and Jarawa people of the Andamans. Kumari Kandam, ring a bell? Your Dravidian culture didn't die at the hands of Aryans, rather Christianization and Islamisation killed it! Tamil would have been likw a rootless Arabic/Latin dialect of Africa, incapable of its unique history, without Hindu influence( both Aryan+Dravidian). Aryans didn't worship krishna and Rama before coming to India, your African brethern did idolatry since its inception and now, running after bags of rice!
Aryans just arrived later than Dravidians, but your culture is still alive and kicking!
these type of burial was done in the ancient Kerala area.
How closely are those bones dna are related to present day Tamil in the area.coveniently left out
By archaeological and literature evidence proves that tamil culture is old ,,, but without any proof and evidence northern Indians claims that they were old with their language and culture... What a funny
Come out of the cave you live in and look for sanskrit inscription in all of south asia and soitheast asia and its huge influence. Oldest hindu scriptures are written in sanskrit and you want to belittle sanskrit you dravidian history revisionist? 😂
Vedik Age 😂
Why so much hate towards north?
@@adash7841they are Dravidian propagandists
@@bharatyaswaraj5641 Sanskrit my foot...south is tamil lands
By showing the ancient tamilakam ,we should use the map of today's tamilnadu and kerala together and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Telengana.😊
Here is the puzzle! None of the sangam literature talks about burial urn!
Do we know if any DNA analysis was done on these?
After some people invasion things got changed
Dead men do tell tales! Long live the dead! err..their tales!
Long live the dead 💀
@@shahanshahpolonium the long-lasting impact of particular events, actions, etc. that took place in the past, or of a person’s life - "the legacy"
Source: Definitions from Oxford Languages
Similar to Indus valley civilization.
The DNA of a Male skeleton founded in Indus valley site of Rakhigarhi . Which was ( Classified as 'I4411' ) shows affinity with present-day South Indian tribal populations , most notably the " Irula Tribal group " population in the Nilgiri Mountains of kerala and Tamil Nadu
. A total of 61 skeletons were found till 2016.
I guess Keezhadi and the other Vaigai Valley sites are the second best after Indus Valley that we could have for unraveling the Pre-Aryan heritage of this country. 1000 BCE means just about 500 yrs from the end of IVC, with the Aryans beginning to enter and settle in the North West of the Subcontinent. Indus Valley and Vaigai Valley might even have coexisted and interacted for a brief period of time.
2500 BC Rakhigarhi skeletons have no traces of 'Aryan gene', finds DNA study by . Dr. Niraj Rai who is the Head of the Ancient DNA Lab at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow
Even International genetic David Reich who is Head of Harvard School of Medicals said that Indus Valley people did not has genetic contribution from the steppes
The study - titled ‘An ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers’