Is this show showing Vaishnavites in a bad light? - Page 3

adve means the Tripund of Shiva used by the Shaivites or a horizontal line)

while Ubhe means the tilak of Vishnu or a vertial line...

you can make out who is who by just looking at how they put thier tilak or bindi(older ladies follow it too)

the older generation was pretty orthodox about it!about the clear division between the two sects

but if you belong to the same caste section-eg bramhins,the sect division doesnt matter

however what is happening now a days is that many people are getting married to people out of sect,gotra,religion,caste,even nationality that such things are loosing importance...but in certian sections it does exist!

Since any of the rishis are not stick to mahadev or Vishnu only ,they followed and mediated both shiva and vishnu according to their needs and times . There is no distinction prevails in south like Vaishvav and shaiva's and their followers ...

In south there are records that people of same family follow different deities up to 12 th cent . But every thing changed after Ramanujaachariya and AdiShankaraachariya period ...

there they split once a father or head of the family follows certain deity all the linage must be acknowledged with the same name.😔 turned Iyer and Iyengar's ,shaiva Kshatriya's ,Vaishnava Kshatriya 's etc ...even Kaumara's exist till now (they are responsible for building Large Murugan temple at Battu caves of Malaysia ).

But now they are slowly changing ...Lakh's of people died due to large quarrel between these two followers during 12 cent in south thats a dark period ,In mean time Muslims to invaded using this situation,Lots of temples were vanished by them .😕😒.

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That's news to me. From what I understand, there were never any wars b/w Vaishnavs & Shaivyas - in fact, if Buddhism & Jainism could be introduced and prosper until the 11th century (during the Muslim invasions), then why would there be wars b/w Vaishnav & Shaivyas? Yeah, different sects competed for royal patronage in various kingdoms, but different members of families practiced different religions. E.g. In Thaneshwar, Rajyavardhan was a Buddhist whereas Harshavardhan, his brother, was a Shaivya. Among the Mauryas, Chandragupta, towards the end of his life, embraced Jainism, while Ashoka embraced Buddhism.

Yeah, in classical age India (i.e. India b4 1000AD), there were wars b/w different kingdoms, but were any of them on account of Vaishnav vs Shaivya beliefs of the battling dynasties/kingdoms?

In the 12th century that you're referring to, the South was beginning to be attacked by the Muslims who had overrun the North, and most of that destruction happened @ the hands of the Bahmani sultans and beyond, just like the Ghaznavis, Ghoris, Mamluks, Khiljis and Tughluqs had done in the North, and the Syeds, Lodis and Moghuls would continue.

I would be very interested to hear how things in the North as well. [Off topic: I find the "shagun" "tilak" and other rituals being currently shown fascinating, we don't have them in the south (not the exact same ones anyway)].

Pnars, the only intra-Hindu rivalry in the mediaeval period that I recall was that b/w Krishnadeva Raya of Vijayanagar and Raja Pratapa Rudra of Kalinga. But I have no idea whether they were of different sects, and whether that was a motivating factor in the war b/w them. Kalinga lost that war badly and had to turn over a princess in marriage to Krishnadeva Raya.