The followers of Sri Ramalingam alias Vallalar might be aware of Vallalar’s statement “One day, Vadalur will become Cuddalore”. I have been thinking for long time, what it means? The towns Vadalur and Cuddalore belong to South Arcot district (figure-1) until early 1990s, in Tamil Nadu province, India. Since the South Arcot district is very […]
Category Archives: Traditional Knowledge
19th Century Climate Scientist’s article on “Formation of rains”
Sri Ramalingam’s piece of work during 19th century on “how rain forms” is an extra-ordinary scientific work considering the time he had written without even having a primary school education. May be this piece of work is to clarify the doubt among the people on “how rain comes?”, as people had a wrong belief (according […]
Veeranam tank – A Chola’s water management plan in 10th Century is worth more than 200 million US$ in 2014
Veeranam tank/lake, was built by the famous Chola king Rajadityan son of Paranthaka Cholan during 10th century AD, is one of the classical example of Chola’s water management plan. This lake stores the excess water from the tributaries of Cauvery River flowing into Bay of Bengal and supports the region for agriculture activities. This lake protects […]
Seasonal climate forecasting in ancient days
Advanced climate modeling and forecasting techniques are in place for the past two decades. However for many decades, the farmers in rural Tamil Nadu were using traditional climate forecasting ways to understand the climate characteristics well in advance through sky observations and a book called “varushaadi Nool” (varushadi – year, Nool – Book) written by […]
Deforestation and Disaster preparedness in Thiruarutpa
“Scientific information in ancient Tamil literature THIRUARUTPA” Sri Ramalingam (alias) Vallalar, wrote Thiruarutpa (www.thiruarutpa.org) in 19th century, which is famous literature for spiritual principles. However, many scientific information could be observed in his works. This makes us to think, how amazing people lived in the pre ICT era. The valuable information from ancient literature’s could […]