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Pon sei visit
> But, definitely the temple would have been built before Raja Rajan's > period. Dear Ramki Both temples belong to parantaka period.

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Pon sei visit
> there is a legend that durgais at patteshwaram, The present durgai is a later icon - according to dr.kudavoil. I saw a palagani (Upper story) represented in sculpture - seems to be chola - with a lady standing - just near the garbagraha in pat…

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Pon sei visit
Excellent info venkat & thanks for this topic Ramki ! I visited the temple with varalaaru team. The temple is called "Nal thunai Iaswaram" today - what a nice name ! The dwarapalakas are perhaps the finest among cholas in my opinion - …

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munaiethirmohar
I have read a very interesting article from Dr.T.N.Ramachandran - in varalaaru magazine or somewhere I believe - on this subject. The article is based on an inscription and iconographic evidence found by him in a small village. If my memory is not …

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
> Amaam kandippa pOgaNum. Naan vENaa padagu Ottindu varEn. en kUda yaar > yaar ellam vareenga? Sathiyamaga oruvarum vara mattargal - padhi kadalil keezhe thalli vittu viduveergal !

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Trip to South East Asia
> closer home , a trip to srilanka should also be considered. Plan this in december - i'll try to join Ofcourse, this could be another PS yathirai touching places where arulmozhi goes:-)

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Trip to South East Asia
> the place you are talking about sounds so much like like ayodhya. > does it have something to do with a a hindu dynasty????? Thailand is more Buddhist - but you will be surprised to see the deep rooted hindu influence there. You can see the…

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Trip to South East Asia
> what does a return ticket cost to thailand??? If it is Jan end or something, we should start planning right now. If it is march we have some more time. We have budget air careers in asia now. I am not sure if they are Sing$ 350 - but from che…

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Domestic and Overseas tours
> Co-Ordinating Team : VK (India) Kamal - Gokul / Ramnath (singapore). More than happy to work out the details.

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trip travellogue: pics
I see lot of group photos in suganya's collection Can one of you list out who is who ? Suganya : Can you upload the high resolution group photograph in files section ?

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Chalukyan temples of Badami-Aihole-Patthadakkal
Forgot to add: Kalki's portrayal of Pulikesin as a villan and iron hearted is a great injustice. True, he was a sworn enemy of pallavas - but he was a big art lover. Every stone of badami will sing his praise and also of his villanish chitappa…

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PSVP - My suggestion
> it from that site itself. First we shall create a table with the > following columns to start with: Dear krupa Good idea. If it is OK to all of us, may be we can host a asp page with a backend database and start cutting and pasting info in…

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PSVP
> Games, puzzles, cross-word based on the information > given at suitable places to make the reading / > listening interesting. Before getting into details I wish to know if a collection on Rajaraja - be it website or otherwise - is the …

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BIG TEMPLE : PAINTINGS
> that is dedication > > because of people like him it still rains I have met two such amazing men : One was a temple watchman in thirukkoshtiyur temple. He was kind enough to take us to all the three tiers of the temple and showed us ever…

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03.09 Saturday - before reaching Big temple.
> dieties as Lakshmi / Saraswathi, Sandhya Nirutha murthy special to > these temples only. (Just now Gokul confirmed that there was another > Sandhya Nirutha Murthy in kadambur). Refer page 146 of saiva samaya valarchi by Dr.Maa.Raasamani…

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03.09 Saturday - Big temple - VERSIONS
> he, YES was his answer - quoting a Painting Panel opposite to > Chidambaram panel in the Mez level paintings! > A similar looking person with 3 royal women worshipping at Chidambaram! In Panchavan mahadevi pallipadai, on the western si…

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THANJAI MEET
Please try to record all the coversations with a voice recorder. It will be of great help to those who cannot make it physically for the trip

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Kooththa Nool
Mr. Srihari wrote about this long time back And most surprisingly, I got an opportunity to see this book recently. Another interesting book which stunned me is Yazh nool by Yogiyar.

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"The Third EYE"
The third eye has got a religious significance. It is not a physical eye meant for physical vision. It is closely associated with yoga. SPS : In "Maraidhirukkum Unmaigal" book I gave to you (by Osho), the third eye is dealt with in detail…

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N A M E S
> Because of Thulukka Naachiar, the early morning Nivedhyam in > Srirangam is ( HOLD BREATH ) :: BUN & TEA! One more thing which I personally witnessed: The lord was wearing a coloured dhothi during one of the thirumanjanams. I was expect…

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Big Temple
> BTW, unga aduththa visit eppo? We shld plan an event when most of > the overseas members can participate. Not yet planned...But with exciting new group and activities like PSVP it should happen quite soon. If a combined visit is organized d…

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Big Temple
> > ASI guided trip. Upper floor paintings can also be > > seen. If you happen to see paintings, look at the wall opposite to Nataraja worship at chidambaram. If you carefully see you can identify the following : * A very big authenti…

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chidambaram
It is difficult to explain the great importance given to chidambaram by saivites and srirangam by vaishnavites Many theories - but still lot of questions. G

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N A M E S - Chozha way :: Krishnan Iraman .. (1)
> our venkatesh's malapaadi There is a rare uoorthuvajanu & Dandapaksha karana sculpture in mazhapaadi temple - I had written about it in PS group - it was discoverdd by Dr.kalaikkovan. refer a detailed article in varalaaru.com one of t…

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SIFY Article on Sujatha
> Its intersting read about Mailk Kafur and assacre and countercliams of muslims being in the south much longer than that... Dr.Kudavoil told me something: This guy malikafur did not recognize the tamil muslims here ! He was ruthless with them a…

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chidambaram
Going by history, it could be that Hiranyavarman, one of the earliest of Pallava kings might have built this temple.

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good link
The greatest problem with history as well as hisorians is that individual faiths, beliefs and planned misinterpretations often come in the way of truth. It requires great maturity and balance of mind to look at things in their true perspective I f…

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chidambaram
> can we have a discussion on the people who built the present raja > gopurams. That reminds me I sent a 1400 page book to SPS just on chidambaram. Thillai and Nataraja by B Natarajan son of SR Balasubrahmanyam

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Uoorthuva thandava moorthy-pallava and chola
> I visited Thillai, just two days back and am delighted to read so > much abt the same in the group. Thillai temple unfortunately has lost its original ancient keralite structure almost completely. > > G, by any chance did u read Da V…

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Kaanagam Ugandha kaali
This is Pon Sei near poombuhar

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