Subject: [world-vedic] Fwd: Kubera, navanidhi and proto-vedic continuity
From: vrnparker <vrnparker@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:20:23 +0100 (CET)
To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com

Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

Kubera, navanidhi and proto-vedic continuity

<http://spaces.msn.com/members/sarasvati97>

Vais'ravana as Kubera is a Vedic divinity. The determination of 
navanidhi helps determine the continuity of proto-vedic language and culture 
among Bharatam Janam. This argument is elaborated in the following 
Sections:

1. Wealth creation

 1.1 Samudramanthanam, creating wealth

1.2 What is -nidhi in nava-nidhi?

1.3 Navanidhi of Kubera as mines, minerals, earthenware and ocean 
resources

1.4 Padma, Maha_padma (mines)

1.5 Makara: synonym Padmini, kohl, anjana, black antimony

1.6 Ni_la, antimony

1.7 Mukunda, mercuric sulphide or cinnabar, sindhur (refined to 
produce quicksilver)

1.8 Kunda, arsenic (to produce bell-metal)

1.9 Kharva, baked cup

1.10 Kacchapa, tortoise or turtle shell

1.11 S'ankha, conch-shell industry 6500 BCE to-date

 2. Kubera, vedic divinity on s'ilpa

 2.1 Kubera, vais'ravana in Atharva Veda, yaksha, s'rivatsa

2.2 Kubera, lokapala

2.3 Kubera and makara kun.d.ala

2.4 Kubera in bauddham

2.5 Kubera, Bishamon and S'ibika
2.6 Kubera, navanidhi and Mahis.a

The navanidhi or nine treasures of Kubera are:

   - padma <http://www.experiencefestival.com/padma> (lake in
Himalayawith minerals and jewels)
   - mahapadma (lake double the size of padma in Himalaya with 
minerals
   and jewels)
   - makara <http://www.experiencefestival.com/makara> (Synonym of
   Padmini, black antimony)
   - nila <http://www.experiencefestival.com/nila> (Antimony)
   - mukunda <http://www.experiencefestival.com/mukunda> 
(quicksilver)
   - kunda <http://www.experiencefestival.com/ananda> (arsenic)
   - kharva (cups or vessels baked in fire)
   - kachchhapa (tortoise or turtle shell)
   - sankha <http://www.experiencefestival.com/sankha> (conch shell)

The names are mentioned in verse 534 of the Megha-duta, collected
works, iv. 372.

The semantics provided in parenthesis will be explained further in 
the following sections. The categories involved in the nine treasures of
Kubera are: minerals worked on to produce metals and alloys and
related artefacts, mineral sources (Padma, Mahapadma), products of
smiths (baked vessels), products of the sea traded (tortoise or 
turtle shell or conch shell). In the case of the conch shell, s'ankha, the
basic source of wealth is also worked on to produce wide and
red-pigmented bangles, to make trumpets (conches) and polished,
painted on the edges in red to be used as sacred ladles for libations
or for feeding medicines or milk to infants.

Such are the navanidhi of Kubera or the nine treasures of hindu 
civilization.

The monograph is at http://navanidhi.blogspot.com/ The album of 
related pictures is at http://spaces.msn.com/members/sarasvati97 Title of 
album:
Kubera, navanidhi.

Dhanyavaadah.
K.