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..
Hi,
Today I read the book named “Kottravai” written by Thiru.Jeyamohan.
In that book he mentioned a lot about Jainism in tamilnadu which made me in web search of jainism in TN , and hence i have seen this website. In some websites i came to know that Gounder Caste in TN is from Jainism.
Sathandhai is one of the sub group in Kongu Gounder.
In a website, i Found the below :
Sathandhai (Saathan+thanthai-descendants of Jain tirthankara Rishaba deva(ref:Tamil grammar)
Can you throw some light on this?
Hi Karthikeyan,
Glad to hear that you found this website while looking for Jainism in TN. Interesting etymology of the word Sathandhai. We don’t have any further information to substantiate / deny the above analysis. We will post it here if we have additional information in the future.
Run through the web and found more infortmation about our jainism and my suggestion is to update recent / upcoming programmes in our jain temples would make more realistic.
Iam planning to service uneducated/ unemployed youth through training / placement in engineering type industry.
Can we use these portal and get supported to connect with them.
Iam staying in adambakkam,chennai
I am M.ANANDARAJ , my native thirumalai village , but i have working in avadi tank factory ,i have very proud my village suited jain temple and jain mutt
Thanks Mr. Aravind.. Good suggestion on updating site with upcoming events at temples. Readers do send in information you have and we will try to post it here.
Kudos to your initiative and providing training & placement to uneducated/unemployed youth. However, I’m not sure if the target audience you have in mind will be browsing the web and reading this website.. Reaching out through other traditional means like Mukkudai might yield better results.
This is a very good site to place and share information about jains in Tamil Nadu. My heartfelt congrats for your monumental works done by you so far. Hope the same to continue and I am ready to offer my services for the same.
Thank You very much.
Jeevagan.A
Thank you Mr. Jeevagan. Thank you for your offer to help. Your kind encouragement and spreading awareness of the site by themselves are great help. We will definitely reach out to as appropriate for any other help as the need arises…
being a jain i say jainism in tamil nadu rox
Sir,
Thank you for your words which encourage us
Dear sir,
This is good site for encouraging our jain peoples to learn lot.
I wonder while watching your video clips of anai malai in madurai…..
Try to advertise this page when or wherever our function conduct.
My friend studied in annamalai university.Now he doing research about tamil jainism. I send this website for his guidence.
I am from renderipet, Polur taluk. If you need any help kindly contact.
Thank you
nice to read and the misinformation is valid
Dear Mr.Rajeev,
Thank you for the appreciation, ask your friend to make use this site information for research works.
Dear Shri.Katrella S Jain,
Thank you for your words.
Hi,
This blog is a really amazing initiative. The information is wonderful. I am a student of Journalism and I would like to get in touch with the creators of this blog. It would be great if he/she could reply to my mail id as soon as possible.
Regards,
Mahima. A. Jain
Thank you for your appreciating words, we are in chennai -Tamil Nadu. We will get in touch with you at the right time.
Thanks For Website ,
Pls call me Free Time Or pls send your Contact Number.
Regs
Deva
Dev Systems
Chennai-33.
Hi ,
Every nice intiative and thought process of put this site.Appreciate the effort. I also have a request if we can have a place in the site of the Tamil jains matrimonial , it would be very useful and as for now we dont have any dedicated matrimonial site for us .
Let me know your thought.
Hema
I have gone through this website, it’s excellent, very good effort put by our people. Also make some kind of database website for our Tamil Jains. It will be very useful for all of us.
Guide me how to upload photos in this website, I want to upload latest Chitharal temple photos as well as Mannargudi Mallinatha Swamy Temple photos.
Thank You
Jay jinendra,
It is a very good effort, to create a website on Jainism in Tamilnadu. So far we were not aware that even native Tamil peoples are Jain. It is my humble request to all Jain Tamizens to take help of other sects of jainism for the development and welfare of All jain of Tamilnadu. Thanking you once again. Do contact me for any help required. I am from Bangalore.
Regards,
Kalyan Srisrimal
The truth of dravidian history and the glory of the tamil people have been masked and changed to suit the needs of some.The core is what the Jains did.The base is what happened to Buddhism in southern India.Scholars should come forward to unravel the truth.People should accept rational thought rather than being bogged down by religious affiliations.
More research is needed on Jainism in S.India (Jains of the north cannot be seen as the same of their brethren in the south ).With so much being known about Samanam, it is only the tip of an iceberg or only the top of the stone beds the Jains used.Awareness is needed ,as very little is being taught in schools or colleges.
I wish more people will come to the fore to help bring out the facts and findings of Jain culture in Tamilnadu.This is a wonderful site, and sure to grow in strength.Kudos for your good work.