[Assam] Fw: HPI, May 2, 2006

Tue, 02 May 2006 14:11:38 -0700

Title: Hindu Press International May 2, 2006
>FLORIDA, USA, May 2, 2006: On April 25, the Florida House of Representatives enacted the Florida Healthy School Lunch Resolution (HR 9095) >recommending a daily vegetarian school lunch option. (HPI note: A legislative resolution carries no weight of law, rather is advice or a recommendation from the >legislators.)
I absolutely don't understand why the above is in Hindu Press News? Is Vegetarian a Hindu thing? Or is it a 'feel good' thing for the vegetarian Hindus?
RB
 
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Hindu Press International

May 2, 2006

1. Restored Brahma Deity To Be Reinstalled At Thailand Shrine

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THAILAND, May 1, 2006: The restored image of the four-faced Lord Brahma will be reinstalled at its Erawan Shrine at Ratchaprasong Intersection in the next 10 days, said caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Surakiat Sathirathai yesterday morning, following an inspection of the progress of the repairs to the holy Deity, which was completely destroyed by a mentally ill man on March 20. "I'd like to publicize [the event] and invite faithful Thais and foreigners to join the ceremony together in the next 10 days," said Surakiat. The auspicious date and time for the installation ceremony will be computed by brahmans and experts after the restored image of the famous four-face Hindu deity, which is made from the remains of the old Deity, is covered with gold leaf. On that day, the image of Brahma, locally known as Than Tao Mahaprom, will be carried to the Erawan Shrine in an elaborately decorated car procession that will pass several significant pla ces in Bangkok like the City Shrine, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and the Giant Swing, to allow people to worship it. Following the installation, the Culture Ministry will carry out a gold-casting ceremony for the production of another image of Brahma that will be made from auspicious nine metals and kept at the National Museum. The image of Brahma was originally built in 1956 with plaster and covered with gold leaf. It is deeply respected by Thais and foreigners.

2. Ancient Stone Ax Found in Tamil Nadu with Indus Script

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CHENNAI, INDIA, May 2, 2006: (HPI note: The significance of this discovery is unclear. Additional links are given at the end for more technical information.)

A Neolithic stone celt with the Indus Valley script has been discovered by a school teacher, V. Shanmuganathan, in a village called Sembian-Kandiyur near Mayiladuthurai in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. The celt, a polished hand-held stone axe, has four Indus Valley signs on it. The artefact with the script can be as old as 1,500 BCE, that is, 3,500 years old. The four signs were identified by epigraphists of the Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology, according to its Special Commissioner, T. S. Sridhar.

Iravatham Mahadevan, one of the world's foremost experts on the Indus script, called the find "the greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu." The discovery proved that the Indus script had reached Tamil Nadu. He estimated the date of the artefact with the sc ript to be around 1500 BCE. "I have cautiously and conservatively put it between 2000 BCE. and 1500 BCE.," Mr. Mahadevan said. It was in the classical Indus script. He ruled out the possibility of the celt coming from North India because "the material of this stone is clearly of peninsular origin."

Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, where hundreds of seals with the Indus script were discovered, are in present-day Pakistan. Neolithic means New Stone Age and it is datable in India between 2000 BCE. and 1000 BCE.

According to Mr. Mahadevan, the first sign on the celt depicted a skeletal body with ribs. The figure is seated on his haunches, body bent and contracted, with lower limbs folded and knees drawn up. The second sign showed a jar. Hundreds of this pair have been found on seals and sealings at Harappa. Mr. Mahadevan read the first sign as "muruku" and the second sign as "an." (HPI note: There is no accepted translation of the Indus script. ) In other words, it is "Murukan." The earliest references in Old Tamil poetry portrayed him as a "wrathful killer," indicating his prowess as a war god and hunter. The third sign looked like a trident and the fourth like a crescent with a loop in the middle.

Mr. Mahadevan commented that the latest discovery was very strong evidence that the Neolithic people of Tamil Nadu and the Indus Valley people "shared the same language, which can only be Dravidian and not Indo-Aryan." He added that before this discovery, the southernmost occurrence of the Indus script was at Daimabad, Maharashtra on the Pravara River in the Godavari Valley.

See also: here, here and here.

3. Florida Legislature Recommends Vegetarian Lunch Options

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FLORIDA, USA, May 2, 2006: On April 25, the Florida House of Representatives enacted the Florida Healthy School Lunch Resolution (HR 9095) recommending a daily vegetarian school lunch option. (HPI note: A legislative resolution carries no weight of law, rather is advice or a recommendation from the legislators.)

HR 9095 states in part: "Whereas school children who identify themselves as vegetarian or vegan or are from families who avoid meat and dairy foods are currently at a disadvantage if no appropriate school lunch meals are offered in their respective schools, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Florida that ... all school districts and parents of school children in the state are urged to emphasize the importance of and to provide plant-based diets consisting of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes; including daily vegetarian entree options." (Click here for full text.)

The resolution was introduced by Representative Susan Bucher at the request of FARM's CHOICE (of vegan school lunch) program headed by Susan Wieland. It follows on the heels of similar resolutions passed by Hawaii, California, and New York legislatures in recent years. For assistance in passing a similar resolution in your state, please contact Susan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 877-6CHOICE.

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Daily Inspiration

This was in the late 70s, I was eating when I suddenly felt that the meat tasted dead, like ashes in my mouth. It was nothing spiritual, it was just that my body told me. I realized then I wanted fresh life taste in my food, and with meat, we do not even know how long it has been dead. Former "Golden Girls" star Rue McClahan on how she became a strict vegetarian

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