Tripurasuran.

 Saw tourist guide of Tripura on RSTV and so looked it up in the net. Its capital is very small , smaller than  medium towns here and scarcely any traffic.So is Gauhati the capital of Assam.

Having lived in sprawaling Metros full of traffic all my life that i find it amusing that such small towns are called cities in North East.

Tripura has a place called Unkoti which means less than one crore..It has rock carvings of Siva and 1000's of Devas  deep inside a jungle.The carvings is said to depict the thousands of Devas who were slayed by the Asura Tripurasuran in days gone by .

I remembered the meanings of  Swamy Desikan's sloka on Sudarshana Chakra in which Tripurasuras are  mentioned  and that Sudarshana [an avatar of Vishnu]became a arrow which Siva left  from his bow to kill the 3 Asuras .

So all this took place in Tripura since such carvings are found nowhere else in India.

This tiny state unknown to many now .was well known in distant past , as the events mentioned in Puranas have been recorded in stone.in there.

It is fashionable to brush aside stories from Puranaas as myths woven with fantastic legends .with show of super human powers.Even i have this tendency.But seeing those carvings in Tripura the home of Tripurasurans as stated in Puranas , maybe several events mentioned in Puranas did take place .

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                                        ASURAS.

Asuras as per our hoary traditions were within the  Vedic fold and followers of Vedas who have gained immense power by performing homamas, yagnas and  from intense Tapas and use it for wicked purposes.

They were  not aboringes or indigenous people with different beliefs , the way it is being wrongly portrayed these days.

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