Dear goodmen1-ga,
The TV documentary you have seen was indeed no hoax. Such an
absolutely unique ancient library does really exist, though I do not
dare giving an opinion whether the records on every individual's life
and destiny are mere humbug or something one should take for serious.
However, your memory of the TV documentary concerning the geographical
location of that library and the language of the ancient scriptures
was not quite right. This might be the reason why your extensive
research has not revealed satisfying results so far: The location is,
in fact, not Arabia but Southern India. And the very old language of
these recordings is not a form of Arabic, but Ancient Tamil (which
looks, at least to everyone who is not a highly specialized linguist,
very much like Arabic indeed). Otherwise, the Indian institution
matches your description exactly.
To avoid confusion, I will start with the basic answer on your
question. The library you described is located in Vaithisvarankoil, a
village approximately 26 kilometers from the town of Chidambaram in
the southern Indian federal state Tamil Nadu. Here is the complete
address:
Vashistar Nadi Astrological Center
Nadi Navalar
No. 67, West Car Street
Vaithisvarankoil
609 117 India (Tamil Nadu)
The library, part of a temple of the dieties Shiva and Parvati, is not
a secret place; everyone who desires it may ask there for obtaining
information from the scipture allegedly containing information on his
past, present and future life. The records - called Naids - are not
written down on parchment or something similar, but on palm leaves.
Hence it is often referred to as the "Palm Leaves Library". For a fee,
the priest in charge of the library will find the visitor's individual
recording from the archives, and a graduate translator for Ancient
Tamil (a very old languange nearly extinct) will translate it orally
to Hindi or English. To consult the records, personal attendance is
essential.
The origin of this library is rather mythical. The old legend says
that the Indian wise man Bhrigu had the theurgic ability to foresee
the destinies of tousands of people not even born yet, but who were
predetermined to come to the Palm Leaves Library one far day to find
out about their lives. He wrote down his knowledge on a huge number of
palmleaves in about 5000 BC, supposedly. Since then, the records have
been copied on fresh palm leaves again and again over the centuries by
initiated priests.
The Palm Leaves Library of Vaithisvarankoil is only the most famous
one. In fact, there are several such collections in India and Sri
Lanka, all of which claim to derive their records from Bhrigu original
scriptures. A list of some additional libraries can be found on Tigo
Zeyen's website "Palmblatt-Orakel":
http://www.palmblatt-orakel.de/palmblatt-les.html
The library of Vaithisvarankoil has been introduced to a wider Western
public in a TV documentary by German travel author and theologian
Holger Kersten who went there in the early 90s, though it is
absolutely possible that other TV documentaries have been made there
before. The austrian author Peter Krassa, inspired and curious by
Kersten's report, also visited that Palm Leaves Library in 1993. He
had his future predicted and later wrote several books and articles
about it, one of which I happened to know by chance.
Should you be able to read German, you might be interested in one of
Peter Krassa's books on this topic, "Die Palmblattbibliothek und
andere geheimnisvolle Schauplätze der Welt. Augenzeugen berichten" (=
The Palm Leaves Library and other mysterious places of the world.
Reports by eye-witnesses). It is available, for instance, from
Amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3776618051/qid=1029867062/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_3_1/028-2964308-5974129
I am absolutely sure that these Palm Leaves Libraries are what you
searching for, since they are definitely unique. No such collections
of scriptures predicting individual destinies are known to exist
anywhere in the Arabian world.
Sources:
Peter Krassa: Geheime Forschungen & Verdeckte Experimente (= Secret
Science & Covered Experiments). Published by Tosa Verlag, Vienna
(Austria), 2001. ISBN 3-85492-211-6
Palmblatt-Orakel (=Palm Leaf Oracle), by Tigo Zeyen, 2001 (in German)
http://www.palmblatt-orakel.de/
Palmblattbiliotheken/Palmlibrarys, by Wolfssohn (in Google Cache)
://www.google.de/search?q=cache:SBcZcKcDtvkC:members.aol.com/wolfssohn/palm.htm+Vaithisvarankoil&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
Das Vermächtnis der Sieben Weisen - Die Bibliotheken des Schicksals (=
The Legacy of the Seven Wise Men - The Libraries of Destiny), by
Thomas Ritter, 2001 (in German, Acrobat Reader file)
http://www.thomas-ritter-reisen.de/pdf/palmblattbibliotheken1.PDF
Travel Report: India, Tamil Nadu, by Jan Bruyndonckx, 2000
http://homepage.mac.com/jbruyndonckx/tamilNadu.html
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I hope this is what you were looking for.
Regards,
Scriptor |