Mamuni Mayan


Mamuni Mayan is a culture hero character from Tamil Sangam literature, identified with the asura Maya Dānava of the Mahabharata, the mythical founder of Vastu Shastra. Romakapura City of hairy ones; in the Surya-Siddhanta, is given as the birthplace of Asura maya.
In 2004 V. G. Sthapati started construction of a "monument to Mayan" near Mamallapuram.
Mayan is credited with the authorship of the Mayamata Vastu Shastra as well as the Aintiram. If there had been a grammatical treatise called Aintiram, it has been lost, but a text called Mayan's Aintiram dealing with Vastu Shastra was published by Sthapati in 1986, with the support of C. Aranganayakam, Tamil Nadu minister of education, and again in 1997 by the "Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation" with English commentary by S. P. Sabarathnam. MayaAsura is credited with the Surya Siddhanta,
The 29 September 2003 edition of the Deccan Herald had an article on Mayan by R.R.Karnik,

The originator of all these ancient sciences is one known as Mayasura of the same tribe that constructed the mayasabha of Mahabharata. But the period is that of Ramayana some 16,000 years ago. He is the father of Mandodari and father-in-law of Ravana. One of his niece was Sita, who had married Rama and an error of judgement started the epic war. He was master in many subjects. Some of these are: Vastu Shastra, Jyotirganita-Surya Siddhanta, Aintiram,... cartography, fundamental physics, the Brahma principle, the yogashastra etc. His contribution to Aesthetics ... was highly appreciated by late Prof. Barlinge.

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