தொல்தமிழர் அறிவியல் –157 :
50. உலகத் தோற்றம் - ஒடுக்கம்
Birth
and Death of the world
“ The quotation from Paripadal, a literary work of the Sangam age refers
to about five eons that occur in the universe in a succession. Such drastic and
devastating occurrences happen when the
sun, moon and the sky get collapsed due to geophysical reasons. Then after a
very long gap of time in the post-aeon period appears the vast expanse of sky
in the first eon a mass of whiff in the second, fire in the third, snow and
rain in the fourth and at length appears the mass of temporal earth. This is
how the universe with its earth and sky arises, says the Tamil poet.
When
excessive rain and snow submerge the earth, at one stage, the submerged earth
itself emerges to enable all types of beings to grow on the earth. In the
absence of any technical reasons for all these massive changes and biological
growth, the Poet attributes it to the activities of God Thirumal alias Vishnu
who is the sustainer of the world according to Hindu mythology.
Barring this reference to
mythology, what all the Tamil Poet says such as eon, deluge and global
devastation are all true. The Pyramids in Japan, Dwaraka city in India, Lion
city of Quiandao Lake in China,
Cleopatra’s palace in Alexandria were once glorious historical places but now
they are all submerged.
In a
recent under-water survey a small city in an area of about 50 acres is
discovered in the sea-bed of Mediterranean sea near Tunisia. Researchers
assumes that this sub-merged place must have been an extinct Neopolis city of the 4th century A.D. It may be
recalled that in a tsunami that raged in July 365 A.D., the whole of Alexandria in Egypt submerged. Poompukar in
Tamil Nadu may also added into this list.
As on date, because or
global warming the huge mass of ice in polar regions is getting melted and hence large number of
coastal cities such as Madras, Bombay, small south Pacific islands and Male are
likely to be submerged by sea, it is said.
These
facts justify what the Sangam poet said once about the life and death of the
geologically vulnerable parts of the world at large.
References:
Wikipedia
Viduthalai,dt. 05-09-2017.--- –Editor.
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