Jainism is an ancient religion originating in India with a strong emphasis on non-violence. Tamil is a classical language that originated in the southern part of India (now Tamilnadu). Not many are aware, that these two entities share an interesting and a long history. This website will focus primarily on this interesting intersection namely Jainism in Tamilnadu.
I appreciate your efforts in bringing out http://www.tamiljains.org
As parents, we always find it difficult to find a match for our wards,
So, I suggest you to add ” matrimonial” section.
I wish you best of luck in your efforts in showcasing tamiljains in the web.
Best Regards
This website is definitely a good contribution to our Jain community. This is simple and scrollable web page but yet powerful way to amaze the viewer about the contributions of our Jain poets.
I appreciate the website does not have any commercial advertisements.
Many of my friends in other religion have asked me about the Jainism. I faced difficulties in explaining to them indepth. I can definitely refer this site to them going forward. I am sure that this website will admire any Tamizan about Jain contributions.
I read from the site that we have 85000 Tamil Jains in TamilNadu. But we could see very less people know about our temples in Tamilnadu and very less people visited our holistic temples like Sithamoor and Tirunaram Kondram. This website could aim to unit TamilJains together.
I suggest having column for Jain events where we can post all the Jain events in TamilNadu.
Best Regards!
Thank you Mr. Mohan for your encouraging words! The site will try to live up to your expectations.
I am interested in knowing the astrology book ( referred under sothidam) ‘ ullamudaiyan’. Where is it available.
As for the site is concerned, good effort.
With regards
J Sridhar
I am not a jain but i love your philosophy Kazhumalai near aruppukootai is also one of the great samanar spot where beautiful Thirthankarar staues are still exists Please add in your website
Dear Mr. Sridhar. Thanks for visiting the website. Unfortunately we don’t have a copy of Ullamudiyaan at this point of time. We have provided links to any book for which we could find full text or ‘urai’. We will update the post and let you know if we manage to find this particular book.
Thanks for the interest Mr. Meenakshisundaram and thanks for the information on Aruppukootai. We would love to feature it on our website. I will get in touch with you to find out more.
I would like to bring in to the attention of all audience about the false propaganda (against Jainism) made by one of the Tamil Television Channel, last night.
May I request all our blog readers and community heads, to come forward and convey our strong condemn against the said report.
Yesterday (3-April-2010 @ 9:30 PM IST), Vasanth TV broadcast a short story in the name of “Pullan Vissaranai” about Fake saints.
In the topic of discussions, their main target was Jainism and our respected Muni’s.
The most disturbing part in this program was the comparison they made on Jain Monks and Nithyanantha.
As they say, the Hindu ethics, particularly in Tamilnadu was spoiled by Jains in the ancient days.
They quote Jains introduced THURAVARAM, which is the core reason for such recent corruptions.
Also they uttered damaging words about Samanam and suppressed the true facts.
Looks like, they intentionally ignored the concept of SAMANA THURAVARAM and mis-leaded the public by such false propaganda.
Its time to show our unity.
I am a native of Nangathur, a village near Muttattur. There is a hill known as siluvaimalai in my native. I have learned that their was Jain settlements surrounding the hill many decades back but not now. I could not find an answer for this question “why have they totally moved from this place”. This place was so utilized by them that we could see rocks carved and used as grinders near the farming area. big big pilers carved for temple are still lying their. few years back some People while plowing had found statues of gods, pieces of gold, pots and other utensils inside the caves. What happened to their entire settlement and why have they moved form this place. If you could collect some information regarding it kindly share it with me.
regards
Anbu
Hi,
This is nice website with lots of Info.
Could you please explain what are the deities (lords) in the picture on the top of the front page.
I think Padmavathy in the left, Theerthangarar in th middle and who is in the right ? resembles Sastha /Ayyanar
Thank you
Regards
Balaji
Thanks Balaji.
Deities in the banner:
– Nemi Thirthankar
– Brahma Devar
– Dharma Devi
Wonderful site. Though born and brought up in madurai, i have missed to see these historic holy places. Let me go on this weekend.
Yes, these historic sites are definitely worth a visit.. Glad to hear that that this website has been the catalyst for the same..