Samanatham=Shrman(Jains)+Raktam(Blood):சாமநத்தம் that is Jains Blood : Place where worlds oldest and biggest human Massacre happened.

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  Vinay (guest)

  Samanatham = shrman + raktam ( blood of Jain monks/munis) and now Samanatham.. Sharman = Jains (Name in Tamil nadu)ans Raktam =Blood. This place has very great importance in the history of Tamil nadu, especially Jain religion. Massacre of 8000 Digambar Jain monks/munis If you google-wiki “Koon Pandiyan”, these are the first words you will read: “Koon pandiyan was a king who ruled Madurai around 7th century. He is infamous for his massacre of 8000 Digambar Jain monks/munis during his reign. Kooni” in Tamil means hunch-backed. “Koon” Pandiyan was a hunchbacked king of the Pandiyan kingdom with Madurai as capital during the 7th century. His real name was Arikesari Nedumaran, and thus he is also known as Nedumaran Pandiyan. That was the time, specially from 5th to 7th centuries AD, when Jainism and Buddhism were very popular in South India. KOON PANDIYAN’S ILLNESS fact: This hunchbacked king is stated sometimes to have been a saivite initially, later becoming a Jain. His wife was the Queen Mangayarkarasi, a saivite, after whom there was even a Tamil film made in 1949. When the king once fell ill, it appears that Sraamanaas/Samanars (Jain monks) were invited to cure him but they were not successful. The Queen then sent for the Saivite saint boy Thirugnana Sambandar (called Sambandar for short) who cured the king with black magic. The king got well and even his back became straight. He then came to be called “Ninraseer Nedumaran” (ninraseer means straight backed). The cured king became an ardent saivite. Sambandar Saivite saint asked king to kill 8000 Digambar Jain monks. Even now many foreigners visit this place to research about the massacred of 8000 innocent Digambar Jain monks/munis.

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  Dhanashree (guest)

  My heart is crying....killed 8000 Digambar Jain monks/munies....:( :'(

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  Sriraman Nagarajan

  Dear Vinay, Kindly represent the history in true sense. The reference for the impalement of 8000 Jain monks is from Periapuranam, which clearly states "When the King beheld the leaf, he addressed the minister Thus: "It is they, the Samanas who challenged The godly child that had lost; they had also sinned Against him; so punish them by impalement on the stakes."(2751) and the GnanaSambandar just keeps quite. See the next verse. "Though the pure one of wisdom from Pukali heard The King, and though he bore no ill-will towards them, Yet he did not intervene to avert the king's behest, As the Samanas for their base act wrought to the matam Where abide and dwell Saivites, deserved it. (2752) Periapuranam implies suicide of the Samanas, "The minister of rectitude had, as all men witnessed, Rows and rows of sharp and long stakes whose nodes were Smoothed out, planted firmly; the Samanas who deliberately Set fire to the matam where the one full of loving kindness-- The Partaker of gnosis--, abode, In their entire strength of eight thousand-- the residents Of the eight huge hills--, impaled themselves. (2753) Still the numbers may be exaggerated. An eminent Jain website called www.jainworld.com has the following to say in this regard: QUOTE One story goes that there was a sudden reduction in the number of Jains specially in the Madurai area in the 7th century. This story is found in the Shaivite books. It starts with the story of the Shiv saint Gnanasambandha (end of the 7th century) as given in the Periyapuranam (AD 1150.) There was a Pandya king of Madurai. He was hunched backed. The boy saint Gnanasambandha cured him of his infirmity and the grateful king embraced Shiv region. This emboldened the Shiv population of the city who challenged the local Jains to prove the superiority of their religion. The wager was that each sect would throw a palm- leaf manuscript of its sacred text in the river, and the party whose text lose would be annihilated by the other party. The Jain text was washed away, but the Shiv text floated against the current. The 8,000 Jains of Madurai were then killed by impalement by the Shivs. This alleged incident proved by the evidence of a work composed almost 500 years later and also by the evidence of some frescoes on the walls of the Golden Lily Tank of the Minakshi temple (17th century) recorded 1,000 years later. The story is not found in any Jain source, the Jains evidently know nothing about it; and so do not accuse the Shivs of this massacre. The Hindu historians on the other hand are at pains to prove the absurdity of the story by such arguments as that (1) the Jains would never enter into a wager where if they won they would have to kill human beings, (2) the king would not permit 8000 of his innocent subjects to be killed; (3) the Jain learned men continued to compose important works on grammar and lexicography in Madurai itself even after the alleged incident. Among these works are cited the Sendan Divakaram a Tamil dictionary of Divakara; the Neminatham and Vachchamalai, two Tamil grammars by Gunavira Pandit, etc. Lastly, if all the Jains of Madurai were massacred in the 7th century, there would not be, as we have seen earlier a concentration of Jains in the same area in the 8th and 9th centuries. The truth of the matter is that such stories of the annihilation of one sect by a rival sect, were a common feature of Tamil literature in those days. These were required to prove the superiority of one's own sect above that of the other. In fact in one such story a Jain king of Kanchi gave the Buddhists a similar treatment, and in another the Vaishnava apostle Ramanuja treated the Jains similarly by instigating the Hoysala king Vishnu Vardhana against them. Hagiography need not be taken as history.

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  Abhay (guest)

  Jains are most innocent and oldest and truth religion. Most scientific.

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