[Advaita-l] Is Ayyappa a Vedic god?

[Aditya Kumar]

Namaste,
This is a very interesting link : http://vinu-mythoughts.blogspot.in/2010/09/ayyappa-is-buddha.html
It is evident that Buddhism had a strong presence in Southern India similar to SE Asia(Sri Vijaya) and Sri Lanka. The sleeping/reclining buddha became Ranga sleeping casually on a serpent, Padmapani became Sarangapani and elsewhere became Dandayudhapani (Palani). Of course, all these are only musings.