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education in ancient days
> > Later days saints like Patinathar, patinathar ws much earlier. perhaps during sangam period too. remember he came from poompuhar

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education in ancient days
> > That sounds scary. Then how did Tamil survive at all?? A tamil revival > should have > happened for sure, who was responsible for that?? tamilnadu must have been greatly depopulated in 1314 had malik kafur decided to wreck hav…

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education in ancient days
> > karka kasadara karka, katrapin nirka atharku thaga > kanudaiyar enbar katror, mugathilrendu punudaiyar kalathavar...... > and the man who said this was a weaver. venketesh

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education in ancient days
Hi these techniques were simplified for the common man the term vatti meaning 12 % is predominatly used considering there are 12 months in a year the interest for one month can be calculated so easily. moving the decimal point by two steps or…

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education in ancient days
> Another point to look at is, as SPS quotes often, till british found > out that RRC built big temple, everyone thought it was built by > Karikalan. The kalvettu in big temple are supposed to be the best > handwriting (?) (as per La…

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education in ancient days
Hi appappo vanthaalum sathish "appaadiyo nu solra maathiri varuvaaru. no sathish we are not mixing up literacy and education but that was a important thing. how many pages of text do you think all the kalvettus of chola chera pandya will…

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education in ancient days
-Hi each skilled worker must have come from a guild. mostly hereditery. easy becasue an apperenticeship was possible very early in life. must have been hard for a new comer to break into that circle. but did those gurukulams ( like what we saw i…

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accolades for Ram
Hi no. Dr. Parthasarathy Sriram, is an aerospace engineer, with a bachelors degree from IIT, Madras (1982) and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology where is currently a research engineer in the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering. there i…

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what year did RRC retrive the Tirumurai
We now know tha rrc was forgotten for atleast a part of his deeds like the big temple construction till 19th century. but was he remembered for the thirumurai event? any details on it. venketesh

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Vinayaga Chathurthi wishes :: Vinayagar
Hi there is a "sirai meetta vinayagar" in one of the ther veethis of chidambaram. anyone knows its story? venketesh

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Adam's Bridge or Ramar Paalam
-Hi I can be termed a neutral secularist though I am a very devout hindu. BUT whether rama built the bridge or not, its enshrined in the hearts of millions. lets not question the beleifs of the other religions EXCEPT when it involves taxpayers …

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last kings of a dynasty
Hi karumuthu kannan who is the head of the board of trustees of the meenakshi temple is already doing a great job. the covering of the entire shrine of nataraja with silver was done under his leadership lets hope this also comes to his notice. k…

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last kings of a dynasty
Hi MOTTAI gopuram rahul or vk may be able to explain better being sons of the soil The Madurai Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple has 12 gopurams in three corridors.but north mottai gopuram is a fully built gopuram without a roof. Built by Veerappa Nai…

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last kings of a dynasty
Hi when the government wanted to take over the big temple at tanjore the serfoji kings who owned it went to court saying the bat droppings in the temple was a major source of their income and they needed to be compensated. also heard of a types…

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last kings of a dynasty
>>>>>>Tiruchi SwamigaL at Bangalore some time back. Thiruchi swamigal is no more now. their trust runs the famous raja rajeshwari temple at bangalore.

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last kings of a dynasty
on phropesies the new outer gopuram of thiruvanmiyur temple facing the valmiki nagar remains incomplete. 2 people including a media mogul who tried to complete it died. so there it remains a concrete skeleton. but of recent somebody has started. …

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lost city believed to be found - Pompuhar
Hi This poem was written by paduvaar muthapar. its about the goddess laksmi paduvaar muthappar was a saint poet from mithilaipatti- kilasevalpatti region( where u.vesa got the bulk of his palm leaf manuscripts) muthapar was a very holy man and …

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Ranjankudi Fort
Hi you can see this fort on the left when travelling from trichy to chennai on the highway.always wanted to stop but never did can we list the forts in tamilnadu- either ruins or intact I'll star pudukottai district thirumayam kilanilai …

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last kings of a dynasty
Hi you are right. both rrc and rjac must have been middle aged when they came to power. but rjc's greatest conquests was when he was younger and a crown prince. I guess you have to view the sovereigns achievements in regad to the environme…

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last kings of a dynasty
-Hi just look at that with a mathematical point of view. 4 kings ruling for a century means 25 years reign for all perhaps came to power at 40 and ruled till 65. those days at that age you want to relax anf nor go for a war. the fiery ambition…

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Bharathi's memory
-bharathi trivia Bharathi was born Chinnasami Subramania Iyer at age of 11 he was invited to a conference of Ettayapuram court for composing poems and songs. It was here that he was conferred the title of "Bharathi" for saraswathi-G…

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CHOZHA HISTORY
..i am only a post ..man. the lowly postman in the british ndia had sucha protection you know. if you obstruct him you were obstructing the emperors job assaulting a postman was treated as treason. both kalki and tagore used the postman or postma…

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last kings of a dynasty
Hi the same thing was true of the princely states 1900-1947 so many born in pudukottai a princely state studied in trichy british india many here know more about satyamurthy. he was a pudukottai citizen but managed to be a minister in madras pro…

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last kings of a dynasty
-Hi if there was one force that was majorly responsible for destroying chola power it was the kadava dynasty read this extrct Kadavas, who must have been minor chieftains under the Cholas, began to raise their power during the reign of Kulothun…

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Great Feats...
Hi Sampath that mail was a part of rahuls previous mail I had just questioned whether it was aditya karikalan or the good old karikaalan of the sangam ages venketesh

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Kalki's birthday
yes sir 9.9.99 thats when kalki was born in putha mangalam HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Great Feats...
And if it weren't for the British in the 1800's we would still be > thinking AK built Big Temple. thats completely laughable!! aditya kariklan or karikalan the first??

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Trivia about kalki
Hi Sri long time no see! Hi Sps can we put a few thing in concrete numbers lets forget the first chola empire. starting from vijayalaya to the fading away of the cholas in 1275 or so how many kings ruled in the dynasty? taking into account all t…

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Trivia about kalki
Hi points of debate Ponni valley civilisation.... rather the delta civilisation .thanks to efforts of the greatest king of > india.. rahul would debate this point on whether rrc was the greatest an unbroken tradition of service to shiv…

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umapathi sivam
>> his translation on Kanagadhara sthothram maalavan maarbil nirkum mangala kamas selvi..... a classic piece of kannadassn acting in a movie apoorva ragangkal, where he instantaneously writes a poem about nagesh- a doctor venketesh …

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