<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+Aug 21 2007, 03:20 AM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ Aug 21 2007, 03:20 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Does anybody know the etymology of Madurai? Does it have anything to do with north Indian city, Mathura?[right][snapback]72294[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is what Subhash Kak wrote:
http://www.indiastar.com/kak6.html
(and at http://www.hinduwisdom.info/articles_aryan...n_theory/19.htm )
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the cultures of the North and the South are the same as far back as we can go. (There is some minor difference in kinship rules.) <b>There was even a mirroring of the sacred geography. The North had Kashi and Mathura; the South had Kanchi and Madurai.</b> Who is to say what was the original?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(The article's a good read in its complete form too.)
http://www.indiastar.com/kak6.html
(and at http://www.hinduwisdom.info/articles_aryan...n_theory/19.htm )
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the cultures of the North and the South are the same as far back as we can go. (There is some minor difference in kinship rules.) <b>There was even a mirroring of the sacred geography. The North had Kashi and Mathura; the South had Kanchi and Madurai.</b> Who is to say what was the original?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(The article's a good read in its complete form too.)