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Royal women power
Hi 'bakthi'ngrathu exam maathiri we cant keep saying 'naanum padichen naanum padichen' did the examiner pass you? thats more important. sundarar came out with distinction venketesh

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Thank you all, Your help is remembered.
we all (Venkat, Siva, Natarjan Srinivasan, you and I) > went to a short ECR trip yes sathish thiruvidanthai chola temple( sivaramukku athan palam ippo therirunchurukkum) marakkanam chola temple sangam age pandya temple at yali cave pallava st…

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Royal women power
But this particular story still reveling in my mind, who the better devotee â" Sundarar or the King? enna diwaker ithu enna kelvi?? sundararai minji saivathil Bakthanundo? is bakthi just a dedication to god or a sacrifice for him? is i…

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Architecture and - MADEVADIGAL

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BASIC TAMILNADU HISTORY
> URAIYUR - KOZHI - chozhas Dear SPs several small branches of minor cholas seem to have co existed with the pallavas. like vijayalaya. any idea about their capitals? venketesh

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the women and the throne/KUNDAVAI-A letter to RRC
Hi always heard that rrc's chief queen was a rastrakuta princess, same as vanthiyathevan(?) would vanthiyathevan have allowed a cousin's daughter to marry his brother in law or kunthavai allowed another girl from her in law's clan…

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the women and the throne/KUNDAVAI-A letter to RRC
-Hi was one of the 14 kundavai's daughter? venketesh

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Architecture and Religion
Hi some temples with tall vimanams( though called in different names) from that period of time bodh gaya, lingaraja, konarak, big temple, gkc. venketesh

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Toddy war( Tamil Nadu's opium war) and Freedom movement.
> What was the tool used by the freedom fighters to stop toddy business. Was violent methods used to stop Toddy kallu kadai mariyal as kalki puts it. toddy was the sole business for many people and could not be totally eradicated also. ka…

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saivism and vaishnavism
> > > > Any info on appar & sambandar, and kazuvil yettruthal? When they > happened? Either before RRC or after that? > > > Dear Senthil have you read Sivakamiyin sabatham. the period of appar sambandar samanarai ka…

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About RJC
Hi we have already discussed how some of the best planes of air india were named after kings and places. tamil kings got more than their share.'even the prime ministers flight. similarly with naval stations. our kings may not occupy too many…

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Architecture and Religion - Were the palaces really existed?
Hi manickavasagar period shiva supposedly came as a horse trader arab horses were imported in specific ports all along tamilnadu. general horse usage in india is ancient. remember the ashwamedha yaga? venketesh

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Architecture and Religion - Were the palaces really existed?
Hi Sps which do you think is the oldest surviving structure in hindu religion in tamilnadu( without later changes) i think it must be the pallava cave temples/ kailasanathar temple etc. the jain structures must be older. if by debate we can ident…

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the women and the throne

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VIKRAMAN MEET :: 07.07.2005 THURSDAY :: On Amarar KALKI
Talking about meets chennai meet is long over due. can we tentatively fix one for 5 pm marina saturday 2-2-08 venketesh

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Architecture and Religion - Were the palaces really existed?
> Kanagasabhai in his book on "Tamils 1800 years ago" > mentions to have seen a ruined palace / city along the > Vaigai river which was probably the old Madurai during > cankam times. when was this book written? venketesh …

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the women and the throne
HI Vijay kalki had the highest degree of disregard for writing and publishing. i can give several instances. one he writes early in his career " show me one man who made money from writing" the other was related to me by vanathi thirun…

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Architecture and Religion - Were the palaces really existed?
I was told by one of my > friend that in earlier days Kings were not interested in building > massive palaces. They lived humbly. Instead they concentrated on > Temples. Hence we could not see any old palaces. But we have old > templ…

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the women and the throne
> > Sivakami inspite of having failed in love was magnanimous enough to be a mother to Mamalla's children. kalki mentions this once in parthiban kanavu. what a genius. he was yet to write sivakamiyin sabatham but had the entire st…

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nandhini again
Hi natrajan it was not the first time kalki mentions girls left in bigger palaces in the hope of snaring a good match. remember the chola king's words to his daughter mangayarkarasi( who is a tholi to the pallava empress) " if you get a …

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Architecture and Religion
> I think this is high time that we take cognizance of such apparent > treasures we have. IMHO, these are not at all getting the due > recognition they deserve. Is this because of the place being confined > as Temple? > > Hi v…

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the women and the throne
Hi I have heard a lot of people compare naganandhi with periya pazuvettaraiyar, though experts feel nandini is a female manifestation of nagandhi( the similarities in the name , the comparison to a snake etc) an old man in love with a pretty maid…

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the women and the throne
Hi Rahul of course small experiences do get reflected. and I have a habit of basing charecters on real life people, but then if every story seemed like an auto biography the author would run out of steam in a few books and wont they seem monotonou…

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the women and the throne
Hi the scenes are wonderful i agree even if you look at the angle of periya pazluvetaraiyar or naganathi but I am sure they have to be attributed to the genius of kalki. in his imagination he must have donned the skin of the charecters. venketesh

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the women and the throne
Probably because he > couldn't indulge in any of these himself he simply poured his heart out into > the characters. One of those loves is probably his own love-story!!! Hi Rahul we can analyse my books and the possible impacts of th…

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Who owns the media in India? Interesting
HI SPS I am perturbed by the way this thread has started to run. i guess we need to put a stop to this at this juncture before it takes a racial turn. I wish you could do this.

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the women and the throne
Hi for people who quoted vananthi- amv romance( with vanathi not knowing the real identity of the man she fell for) i would like to mention, the seeds of that brilliant romance was sowed by kalki in sivakamiyin sabatham itself. two youngsters t…

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the women and the throne
> > Mangayarkarasi - are you talking of Thirunarukkarasu (@ Appar)'s > sister - who was related to Mangoe fruits episode ? > Hi SPS mango fruit episodes was karaikal ammaiyar appar's sister was thilakavathi mangayarkara…

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the women and the throne
Hi must have been nedumarans sister.the pandya princess not sure if there was fact involved. venketesh

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