KERALA MAHATMYAM PDF

Kerala Mahatmyam, a great treatise on the History of Kerala, which is in Sanskrit containing more than stanzas and hundred chapter states that Vishnu. The Keralolpathi is a Malayalam work that deals with the origin of the land of Kerala. Shungunny Menon ascribes the authorship of this work to Thunchaththu. “Keralotpathi and Kerala-mahatmyam” says C.A. Innes, “are late compilations of unknown origin and so full of inconsistencies, anachronisms and absurdities.

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Instead he would visit a lady in her natal home every now and then, solely for sexual purposes, and the offspring would be her responsibility entirely. However the said king reigned between and AD. Shungunny Menon, stated that:. Yet a ruthless ancestor and generations of shrewd management ensured its endurance, as well as its political and cultural currency. For them death by any other means than at the end of a sword on the battlefield was a mortifying ignominy and in their constant zeal for military excellence and glorious bloodshed, they had no time to husband women or economic resources.

Maharmyam Pillai Manu Pillai is a writer and researcher. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Among Nambutiri Brahmins only the eldest son was permitted to take mabatmyam Brahmin wife and all other men had to seek sambandhams from the high-caste matrilineal communities. Sign in with Google. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keralolpathi.

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Some anthropologists regard Kerala’s system of matrilineal kinship as the continuation of a practice that at one time existed all over the world, while others contend that it was conceived due to some mysterious, compelling circumstances that replaced patriarchy at a historical point.

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Mahahmyam using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The other theory relates to the ancient martial tradition of the Nairs. Commons category link is on Wikidata Commons category link is on Wikidata using P Therefore, according to Shungunny Menon a native historian of TravancoreKerala one cannot place, in the Keralolpathi, the value of a historical source.

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But as the scholar K. Shungunny Menon ascribes the authorship of this work to Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachana 17th-century scholar ,erala the Malabar region of India.

While the military tradition of the Nairs, famous for its suicide bands called chavers, was well known, this theory is also more circumstantial than absolute.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Nairs, the principal matrilineal caste, were the descendants of these nymphs and their Brahmin overlords, tracing their lineages in mahatmyzm maternal line.

Views Read Edit View history. The Keralolpathi covers the ancestry of the Namboodiri Brahmins and other castes of Kerala and is sometimes called the “Kerala Ulpathy”.

William Loganwho was the author of the Keralaa Manual also refutes the validity of the Keralolpathi and describes it as:. Wikisource has original text related to this article: For instance it states that a certain Viceroy of Kerala went to Mecca and met the Islamic prophet Mohammed there.

However the corresponding date mentioned is such that the prophet was not mshatmyam born till more than a century later. Sreedhara Menon, page He is then said to have awarded this new region conveniently to Brahmins, after which he summoned equally nahatmyam deva divinegandharva celestial minstreland rakshasa demon women for the pleasure kfrala these men.

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These refer to the creation of Kerala by the legendary hero Parasurama, who is supposed to have hurled his battle-axe from Gokarna to Cape Comorin and claimed from the sea all the land in between. Travancore, a dominion loyal to the British Raj, was relatively newer than the ancient houses that once warred over this slice of south-western India, set between the Arabian Sea and the tail-end of the Western Ghats.

Retrieved from ” https: This page was last edited on 8 Decemberat Besides, by the 18th century modified versions of the work started appearing, varying from kingdom to kingdom and region to region in Kerlaa. The marriage system itself was something that never ceased to fascinate visitors to Kerala. While the “Kerala Mahatmayam” deals with the origin of Kerala and its people alone, the Keralolpathi gives a history of Kerala down to the modern age, including reference to the British in Kerala.

Keralolpathi

There are, however, two views on this that have been kdrala down within the region. Hindu texts Asian chronicles. So the onus of family and succession was taken care of by women, who formed large establishments and managed their affairs independently in the absence of men.

Matriliny was, as per this theory, consequent upon the men purely being instruments of war rather than householders. Nair women could, if they wished, entertain more than one husband and, in the event of difficulties, were free to divorce without any social stigma.

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