Mamuni Mayan ( ''Māmuṉi'' meaning ''

Brahmarishi In Hinduism, a Brahmarshi (Sanskrit ', a tatpurusha compound of ' and ') is a member of the highest class of Rishis ("seers" or "sages"). A Brahmarshi is a sage who has attained enlightenment ( Kaivalya or Moksha) and became a Jivanmukta by compl ...

Mayan'', ''Sangakala Sirpachithan Mamuni Mayan'', ''Mayamuni'', ''Mayendran'') is a culture hero character from Tamil

Sangam literature The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், ''caṅka ilakkiyam'';) historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், ''Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ'') connotes ...

(the Silappathikaram,

Manimekalai ''Maṇimēkalai'' ( ta, மணிமேகலை, ), also spelled ''Manimekhalai'' or ''Manimekalai'', is a Tamil- Buddhist epic composed by Kulavāṇikaṉ Seethalai Sataṉar probably around the 6th century. It is an "anti-love story", a ...

, and Civaka Cintamani epics), identified with the

asura Asuras (Sanskrit: असुर) are a class of beings in Indic religions. They are described as power-seeking clans related to the more benevolent Devas (also known as Suras) in Hinduism. In its Buddhist context, the word is sometimes translated ...

Maya Dānava (''Mayasura'') of the

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...

, the mythical founder of

Vastu Shastra ''Vastu shastra'' ( hi, वास्तु शास्त्र, ' – literally "science of architecture") is a traditional Indian system of architecture based on ancient texts that describe principles of design, layout, measurements, groun ...

. Romakapura (Sanskrit) rom romaka hairy + pura city, fortified townCity of hairy ones; in the Surya-Siddhanta (1:6; 12:39), is given as the birthplace of Asura maya. In 2004, V. G. Sthapati started construction of a "monument to Mayan" near

Mamallapuram Mamallapuram, also known as Mahabalipuram, is a town in Chengalpattu district in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, best known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 7th- and 8th-century Hindu Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram. It is ...

. Mayan is credited with the authorship of the Mayamata

as well as the ''Aintiram'' (''

Aindra The Aindra (of Indra) school of Sanskrit grammar is one of the eleven schools of Sanskrit grammar mentioned in Pāṇini's '' Ashtadhyayi''. It is named after Indra in allusion to Lord Indra, the king of deities in Hindu mythology. Arthur Coke Bu ...

'', a school of grammar connected with the

Tolkāppiyam ''Tolkāppiyam'', also romanised as ''Tholkaappiyam'' ( ta, தொல்காப்பியம், ''lit.'' "ancient poem"), is the most ancient extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature. The surviving manus ...

). If there had been a grammatical treatise called ''Aintiram'', it has been lost, but a text called ''Mayan's Aintiram'' dealing with

was published by Sthapati in 1986, with the support of C. Aranganayakam, Tamil Nadu minister of education, and again in 1997 by the "Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation" with English commentary by S. P. Sabarathnam. MayaAsura is credited with the Surya Siddhanta,Translation of the Surya Siddhanta into English, by Bhāskarācārya, Bapu Deva Sastri, Lancelot Wilkinson, , , http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/suryaEnglish.pdf The 29 September 2003 edition of the ''

Deccan Herald ''Deccan Herald'' is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka. It was founded by K. N. Guruswamy, a liquor businessman from Ballari and was launched on 17 June 1948. It is published by The Print ...

'' had an article on Mayan by R.R.Karnik,

The originator of all these ancient sciences is one known as Mayasura of the same tribe that constructed the mayasabha of Mahabharata. But the period is that of Ramayana some 16,000 years ago. He is the father of Mandodari and father-in-law of Ravana. One of his niece was Sita, who had married Rama and yan error of judgement started the epic war. He was master in many subjects. Some of these are: Vastu Shastra, Jyotirganita-Surya Siddhanta, Aintiram, ... cartography, fundamental physics, the Brahma principle, the yogashastra etc. His contribution to Aesthetics ... was highly appreciated by late Prof. urendraBarlinge.

In 2006 Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati asked Dr. Jessie Mercay, USA, to establish a small school - American University of Mayonic Science and Technology - in the US to teach authentic principles of Vaastu Shastra, Silpa Shastras and related texts including Mayan's Aintiram.

Literature

*Er. R. R. Karnik, ''Ancient Indian Technologies as Seen by Maya, the Great Asura'' *Er. R. R. Karnik, ''Yuga, Mahayuga and Kalpa'' (1996

*S.P. Sabharathnam, ''Mayan's Aintiram : With Tamil Texts of Mayan and Paraphrasing with English Translation'', Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation (1997), OCLC: 47184833. *V. G. Sthapati, ''An overview of Mayonic Aintiram'', Shilpi Speaks series

*

Bruno Dagens Bruno Dagens (born 1935) is a French archaeologist, art historian, Sanskritist, and a specialist on Angkor Wat. He is currently a professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Career Dagens began to study archaeology in ...

, ''Mayamata : Traité Sanskrit d'Architecture'', Pondichéry : Institut Français d'Indologie (1970), OCLC: 61978029. *Bruno Dagens, ''Mayamata : an Indian treatise on housing, architecture, and iconography'', Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Scientific Research (1985), OCLC: 15054108; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Motilal Banarsidass (1994), OCLC: 60146035. * Phanindra Nath Bose, ''Principles of Indian śilpaśāstra with the text of Mayaśāstra'', Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot (1926), OCLC: 3354836. *''Aintir̲am'', Directorate of Technical Education, Cen̲n̲ai : Tol̲il Nuṭpak Kalvi Iyakkakam (1986), OCLC: 19172544 *K S Subrahmanya Sastri; O A Nārāyaṇasvāmi Ayyar, ''Mayamatam'', Śrīraṅkam : Śrī Vāṇī Vilāsam Patippakam (1888), OCLC: 13891788.

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