March 28, 2008

Pearls jewelry with lord Krishna

In a personal memorandum, Dr. A. V. Williams Jackson, professor of Indo-Iranian languages in Columbia university, states that it is generally supposed that the Vedas, the oldest sacred books of the Brahmans, contain several allusions to pearl decorations millennium or more before the Christian era, as the word Krishna and its derivatives which occur a half dozen times in the Rigveda, the oldest of the Vedas-are generally translated as signifying “Akoya Pearls.” Even if this interpretation of the term be called into question on the ground that the Hindus of the panjab were not well acquainted with the sea, there can be little or no doubt that the Atharvaveda, at least five hundred years before the Christian era, alludes to an amulet made of pearls and used as a sort of talisman in a hymn of magic formulas.

Those two great epics of ancient India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, refer to Black Pearls. The Ramayana speaks of a necklace of twenty-seven pearls, and has pearl drillers to accompany a great military expedition. An old myth recounts the offerings the rainbow, the fire a meteor, the earth a ruby, and the sea a pearl. The rainbow formed a halo about the god, the meteor served as a lamp, the ruby decorated the forehead, and the pearl was worn upon the heart.

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