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Shilajit or mumijo, Mohave lava tube, 2018. Shilajit (Sanskrit: शिलाजीत; lit. ' conqueror of mountain ', 'conqueror of the rocks'), salajeet (Urdu: سلاجیت), mumijo or mumlayi or mumie [1] is an organic-mineral product of predominantly biological origin, formed at high altitudes of stony mountains, in sheltered crevices and cave.
Nagarjunacharya, was one of the prominent chemists in the history of Indian alchemy. He ran many experiments in his laboratory known as the "Rasashala". [ 5 ] His book, Rasaratanakaram is a known example of ancient Indian medicine, in which he describes the procedure of transmuting base metals like mercury, into gold.
Kalladikodan hills are a range of hills immediately to the north of the Palghat Gap in Kerala, adjacent to the Tamil Nadu border.. Besides being a conspicuous landmark on the road route from Palakkad to Kozhikode, these hills are the source of numerous non-timber forest produce including Shilajit (called kanmadam—literally "stone-musk--in the local language), as well as numerous medicinal ...
T. S. Chockalingam (3 May 1899 – 6 January 1966) was a pioneering Tamil journalist, [1] writer, and advocate of Indian independence. [2] During the pre-Independence period , his editorship of Dinamani accorded him the reputation as the dominant Tamil-language journalist of the 1930s and 1940s.
Tamil language#History; This page was last edited on 25 January 2025, at 17:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Tamil copper-plate inscriptions are copper-plate records of grants of villages, plots of cultivable lands or other privileges to private individuals or public institutions by the members of the various South Indian royal dynasties. [1] The study of these inscriptions has been especially important in reconstructing the history of Tamil Nadu. [2]
Hinduism, in particular Vaishnavism and Shaivism, was the predominant religion in ancient Tamilakam.The Sangam period in Tamilakam (c. 600 BCE–300 CE) was characterized by the coexistence of many denominations and religions: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Ajivika and later joined by Buddhism and Jainism alongside the folk religion of the Tamil people.
By far, the most important source of ancient Tamil history is the corpus of Tamil poems, referred to as Sangam literature, generally dated from the last centuries of the pre-Christian era to the early centuries of the Christian era. [2] [3] [4] It consists of 2,381 known poems, with a total of over 50,000 lines, written by 473 poets.