Many scholars are lamenting at the negligence by scholars the study of the scientific accomplishments of the Tamil Siddhas.
I must add here that it is not recognized that there are many books that can pass off as scientific treatises in Tirumular’s Tirumantiram. In order to expound such books which are stringed together by later redactors only with some intuitive understanding, I begin this series where I hope to explicate the essence of the verses 1923 - 1974 where the substance is the birth and death and so forth of living things.
It is divided into two chapters : verses ( 1923- 1938) 20. VintuRpanam( the genesis of the seminal fluid) and verses ( 1937- 1974) 21: Vintu Jayam ( overcoming sexuality)
I have termed this field of study of Tirumular as Metaphysical Gynecology to bring out the seeing of the biological against the cosmological as he has done in cosmic-sociology and cosmic-psychology and so forth. I use the same numbering as that of G. Varadarajan whose commentary is also taken into account here.
Dr Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar
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