Dauntless Dr. Vadlamudi Gopalakrishnaiah has taken up the research work on the inscriptions and made it a gigantic work reflecting in it his multifarious faculties. The understanding of the book has been made all the easier for the Telugus and non-Telugus with the Doctor's research and criticism both Telugu and English...
The two new copper plate inscriptions have now immensely helped him to give a correct and complete picture of Araveeti Dynasty. They have provided ample material for eleven generations of Araveeti Dynasty with all its branches. Thirteen imperfect genealogical trees of Araveeti Dynasty published earlier by others are quoted in this book. Dr. Gopalakrishnaiah deserves unqualified praise for his herculian task of proving all the earlier genealogical trees erroneous, and for the vitality and dynamism of his thought in establishing that the Sree Virupaksha-Sree Rama Copper Plates provide genuine and most authoritative information on Araveeti Dynasty... He has also substantiated how the glorious ancient Indian culture and Sanskrit language had fallen into decay for various reasons. The Doctor has, conclusively, established his revolutionary theory that Hindu has been derived from Indu (of moon). According to his derivation, the countless men, women and things of every race, tongue, faith and kind on this earth belong to one Hindu family. It means all living beings on earth who are under the influence of the moonlight belong to Hindu religion. He argues that the Vedas and the relevant. ancient Sanskrit lore are not meant for any one class or race or sect of people, but are primarily intended for all living beings on the earth. He suddenly brings the reader up with a jerk, with a mind alert and curious about the answer with his rhetorical questions: Are the sciences of astronomy and astrology meant only for Hindus? Will the planetary influence (of the Sun, the Venus, the Moon etc.) fall only on Hindus? Do Ayurvedic medicines prove efficacious only for Hindus? He thus establishes that Sanskrit literature is world literature.
Dr. Gopalakrishnaiah says that the literary quality of the 1576 Sanskrit Copper Plate inscriptions is superb. Writing on the ancient Indian astronomers and their researches the Doctor has revealed astonishing facts. He has disproved a theory of modern historians that Tibet (Trivistap) was the socalled heaven, and the ruler of that great, hoary. bleak, barren plateau of Tibet was Indra. Saying that there is no paradise on the earth, the Doctor exhorts his fellow-researchers to locate where the other thirteen heavenly worlds mentioned by the sages, in India, are. He says that there are no seven seas on the earth, but there is only one. Kshira Samudra exists somewhere in the cosmos in the name of the Thick Milky way. He says that the five other seas are yet to be located. Under different subtitles such as Maheswar, Meru, Vinayak, Indratva, the Doctor unravels many mysteries and secrets. In a chapter "Replica of the Celestial Sphere' the Doctor opens fresh avenues for the historians, geographers and other modern scientists producing in them a train of thought, emotion and study. The ancient Indian sages found out a broad luminous band of stars in the sky (a Thin Milky Way) and called it Ganga. To commemorate their discovery, the Doctor says, the sages might have named a huge river in India Ganga. Similarly they called the southern tip of India Kanya Kumari Agram (Cape Comorin) in memory of Kanya Rasi, and some mountains in memory of their discovery of Mera, Vidhya stars in the sky.
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