The Paris Longchamp
Racecourse (Hippodrome de Longchamp) is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility
located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France. The
course is home to more than half of the group one races held in France, and has
a capacity of 50,000. The highlight of the calendar is the Prix de l'Arc de
Triomphe. Held on the first weekend in October, the prestigious event attracts
the best horses from around the world. The
first-ever race run at Longchamp was in 1857 in front of a massive crowd. The Emperor
Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie were present, having sailed down the Seine
River on their private yacht to watch the third race.
Today @
8 pm – but for Covid 19, we would have had kuthirai vahana purappadu of Sri
Parthasarathi in His Chithirai Brahmothsavam this day but now we are only
thinking of corona virus.
A new
study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high
numbers of Covid-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries. The
research, led by scientists from UK’s Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Queen
Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, is published in the
journal Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. Vitamin D is known to
modulate the response of white blood cells, preventing them from releasing too
many inflammatory cytokines (part of the body’s immune response to fight
infections). And the SARS-CoV2 virus is known to cause an excess of
pro-inflammatory cytokines, called a cytokine storm.
At 8 pm
today, the Nation once again glued to the television to hear PM Shri Narendra
Modiji’s 5th speech in recent times.
He announced massive relief package and stated that this era of self-reliant India will be a new
festival for every Indian. Now we have to move forward with a new life force,
new determination. No one can stop us
from turning into a self-reliant country.
He announced that Finance Minsiter
will announce details of special economic package. The fourth phase of lockdown will be
completely redesigned, with new rules;
Time has taught us that we must make 'local' the mantra of our lives. Global
brands that are there today were once local too but when people there started
supporting them they became global. That is why from today, every Indian must
become vocal for our local, asserted the great man.
For
Srivaishnavaites, surrendering at the lotus feet of Emperuman is the purpose of
life. On the evening of day 8 of the brahmothsavam is ‘Kuthirai vahanam’. Our ancestors have not only established such
grand fete ‘Uthsavams’ but have taken
care of the minutest details .. .. on the golden decorated horse, Emperuman
cracks a whip, adorns a crown that generally is worn by horse-riders ~ and ever
imagined how His legs would be adorned ?
- have darshan of Emperuman thiruvadi here !!
குதிரை- புராணங்களிலும், சங்க இலக்கியங்களிலும், மன்னர் காலத்திலும், சிறப்பாக கருதப்பட்டு வந்து உள்ளது. இளவரசர்கள் யானை ஏற்றம், குதிரை ஏற்றம்,
ரதம் ஓட்டுதல் இவற்றில் தேர்ச்சி அடைந்தனர். பண்டைய அரசுகளின் படைகளில் குதிரைப்படை
இன்றியமையாத ஒன்றாக இருந்துள்ளது. குதிரைகள்
மிக வேகமாக ஓட வல்லவை - அவற்றின் சக்தி பிரம்மிப்பூட்ட்ட வல்லது. நமது வைணவ
திருக்கோவில்களில் பிரம்மோத்சவத்தில் - குதிரை
வாஹனம் சிறப்பானது.
குதிரை, புரவி தவிர ~ மா, பரி, மான், இவுளி, கலிமா - இதனது வேறு பெயர்கள். பூம்புகாரின் செல்வவளம் நிறைந்த வீதிகளை பற்றி பட்டினப்பாலையில் குறிப்பிடுகையில் : **செல்கதிர் நுழையாச் செழுநகர் வரைப்பின், செல்லா
நல்லிசை அமரர் காப்பின் நீரின் வந்த நிமிர் பரிப்புரவியும்.............வடமலைப் பிறந்த
மணியும் பொன்னும்......** என சூரியனின் கதிர்கள்
நுழைய முடியாத வளமான பூம்புகாரில் , வெளிநாடுகளிலிருந்து கடல் வழியே கப்பலில் வந்த
நிமிர்ந்து வேகமாகச் செல்லும் வடக்கே உள்ள மலையில் விளைந்த மணி வகைகளும்,பொன்னும்,
மேற்குமலையில் தோன்றிய சந்தனமும் அகிலும், தென்கடலில் கிடைத்த முத்தும் போன்ற அரிதான
பொருட்களும் குவிந்து கிடந்தாக சொல்லப்பட்டு உள்ளது.
There
has been some talk about resuming Cricket played in front of empty grounds but
miles away French horse racing resumed on Monday after a break of nearly two
months because of the coronavirus pandemic, while the sport in Britain was made
to wait until June 1 at the earliest for a restart. Jockeys wore masks or face coverings and there
was limited personnel on the famed Longchamp Racecourse in western Paris as
authorities gave the go-ahead for France Galop to stage racing without
spectators. There were no celebratory hugs and trainers and jockeys wore masks
as French racing resumed under the shadow of coronavirus at the fabled
Longchamp racecourse on Monday. While France's Ligue 1 football and Top 14
rugby leagues have been cancelled until September, racing benefitted from being
quixotically labelled an agricultural pursuit.
It restarted only after reported last minute lobbying persuaded
President Emmanuel Macron to give it the go-ahead. Their example will have been watched closely
by British racing authorities who on Monday inked in a possible return on June
1. Another racing powerhouse, Ireland, has tentatively mooted June 29.
Horses domesticated
thousands of years ago, have been associated with man in many ways – right from
farming to warfare. The centuries that
immediately preceded produced a flood of
treatises on the organization and tactics of cavalry and on the training of
cavalry horses and riders. Countless public reports and private diaries,
regimental histories and personal memoirs, intensified the deluge, as did a
steady stream of disciplinary histories, particularly in the latter half of
that period. Many of these works relied not only on the military experience and
expertise of their authors, but also on disinterested research and rigorous
thinking. Cavalry has been at the
centrestage of warfare ..
On day 8 of Sri Parthasarathi
Perumal @ thiruvallikkeni is ‘Aswa (kuthirai) vahanam’ [in fact two !]
– Sri Thelliya Singar has purappadu on golden horse and comes Thirumangai
mannan on his ‘aadalma’ (more on Kaliyan vaibhavam in a separate post !) Here are some photos of kuthirai vahanam of
last year held on 26.4.2019
~ adiyen Srinivasadhasan
Mamandur
Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
12.5.2020.
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