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World Tourism Day - Sept 27th : Thiruvalanchuzhi
> > Guru performs Upadesam and gives the disciple another name. > This process - though sounds a bit odd today - was a very common > concept in ancient times. Almost all brahmins had to undergo this > during their thread ceramony. …

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Diksha
Nallur the lord is named panchavarneshwarar.( the same name as the lord in uraiyur- the earlier capital of the cholas.) nambiyandar nambis says of the appar incident as follows "natravan nallur sivan thirupaatham than senni vaikka petravan&q…

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World Tourism Day - Sept 27th : Thiruvalanchuzhi
> In Nallur @ Panchavanmadevi chaturvedi mangalam ( 3Kms West of > Pazhayarai and Trhiruvalanchuzhi) Appar hymns that Siva has set his > foot on his head .. ! > That reminds me in thiruvadhigai where appar got cured of his stoach ailm…

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hello! where r their descendants?
Hi there is a zamindar family in pichavaram near chidambaram which still "crowns" a king in nadaraja temple chidambaram. they claim to be descendants of the cholas. of course we do not have lots of royal families here that claim a lin…

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thebigtemple.com - 3
sometimes the writing of a man reveals the make up of his genius. it happened so when I read the clrity in Nagaswamy's article. thanks to sps for making it available

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Herostone inscription
Sriraman sir, can you organise a guided tour in chennai museum. even their website seems so interesting

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Herostone inscription
these two links give some extremely good info on hero stones. they may be much later than the hero stone we are talking about. http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/01/04/stone.htm http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage/dolmens.htm

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Chola Valanadu!
Hi rajendra cholan could you tell us more of the champa devi temple( not its remnants but the original) very close to the confluence ( not too close but on the main road) is a temple called pallavaneshwaram. should check its history. was pumpuha…

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Muslims forces & Tamil Kingdoms
Hi Nanda the pandyas had a mini civil war( not the huge one in the earlier century) just a few decades before malik came. two brothers were pitted against each other. kulasekaran the king and vikrama his brother and the commander of the forces i…

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Muslims forces & Tamil Kingdoms
Hi the pandyas were at logger heads with the sinhalas during 1290-1310 parakrama bahu the sinhala king was in the forest waging a guerilla battle. a group of generals called ariyan chakravattis were ruling the lands of lanka on behalf of the pa…

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Muslims forces & Tamil Kingdoms
-Hi Sivaram 2 points khyber pass I think is on a range of mountains called hindu kush. named meaning " killer of hindus" whether it was the indian invader they meant or indian slaves is still a bone of contention. no wall however big …

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Muslims forces & Tamil Kingdoms
Malik's incursion into the south was resisted by the kakatiyas of warrangal, the yadavas of deogiri and hoysalas. malik conquered all of them in different ways. but in a way he was focussed. he never wanted to rule the lands he conquered but …

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Muslims forces & Tamil Kingdoms
-Hi the first major muslim invasion was around 1314 ad at that time the cholas had been extinguished and the pandyas ruled from two capitals madurai and cannanore( samaya puram) there was a great fight between two pandya broithers. if you ask t…

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Heritage Quiz B:
Hi all those who cant see the photo questions please go to photos section and see folder called " heritage quiz" please do not post answers in the group. note them down. sivaram from tomorrow onwards post one in messages and the same q…

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Events in Indian History - experience of a mother
> I am saying this to show that interest in English and english > authors dont make someone not love our culture, history and > tradition. Everything should be inclusive - not exclusive. excellent. and very true how can you differentiat…

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frescos of BT
One local legend in madurai was about a large painting done in the 1940s temple depicting a celestial wedding. the patriotic painter put in a caricature of gandhi in the painting. his small contribution to a great freedom struggle. can madurai…

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Events in Indian History
Hi all now that rahul has set the ball rolling " GOOD MEN CANNOT RULE LARGE KINGDOMS" We can observe some anger in rrc when he banishes ravidasan and co in the udayarkudi inscription. in history we have always observed tyrants being m…

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E-books of ponniyin selvan
-Hi kalki's works have been nationalised. so there is no copyright issue. however the inttelectual property of a writer and his heirs end 50 years from the death of a writer. thats why you see so many publishers printing ps. only vanathi…

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Heritage Quiz ;; PSVP
Hi can the computer guys set up something like a blog ( a heritage quiz should have photos and a visual round)where we can all post our questions for our members to answer first.

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Events in Indian History
> I used to read history, the same way I used to read stories or novels, by fantasising a little bit.. Hi Nanda athu thaan problem . it needs a great deal of imagination to break the stereotypes. akbar maram nattar, kulam vettinaar.... i…

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Heritage Quiz ;; PSVP
Hi Sps not that I am shirking any responsibity but Me as president and all is too much. Lets go by the team we set up a year back in the psvp initial meeting. and no one better than you to lead. I think the best team to lead would be three co- …

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Comparison of Great Female Charecters:Kundavai
Hi sometimes I wonder if we are analysing charecters or different nooks and corners of kalki's mind itself. or his mind during different phases when he penned the words venketesh

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Thiruvidanthai
Thiruvidanthai temple once owned hundreds of acres of "useless"- beach land. but then now its on the east coast road and the oldmahabalipuramrroad and is literally a gold mine, making it one of the richest temples in the vicinity unfor…

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Comaprison of Great Female Charecters
Hi suganya you are not a fan of kundavai are you?????? frankly speaking her childhood antics are responsible for nandini becoming a villi( rather than portrayed asa freedom fighter) many of the sitrasars were right when they said a pennatchi was…

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Comaprison of Great Female Charecters
Hi all coming to think of this punkuzhali asks vanthiyathevan in book one to remind arul mozhi ( stationed in lanka)of her. even tells vd that arul mozhi has called her samudra kumari once. but kalki doesnt do much of a flash back when the inci…

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Water Management
Madras had a waterway canal from Stanley MC to Mahabalipuram what happened to it...Imagine how romantic it would be to go to mallai in the moonlight in a cruise and feast your eyes on the pallava marvel on a full moonlight??? Hi the water way t…

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Comaprison of Great Female Charectors
Hi Sri there you are I always felt a little uncomfy with kalki's female charecters (used to wonder why?)but you have identified one common thread. I strongly beleive charecters in novels come out of the author's real life experiences …

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hai i named My kid as Arul Mozhivarman
Hi congrats it was so nice of you to name your son after your hero. just some time many of us were trying to cajole sathish to name his new born as pungkuzhali ( or was it kunthavai). but then he said he would like to seperate his loves of life…

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September 11 or 9/11
-Hi sps 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone Number Day was proclaimed, by President Reagan in 1987, to occur on the 11th day of September, the ninth month, of that year. The proclamation was made to promote the North American universal emergency telephone…

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Aagamas and Makutaagama
thiruvaaroor there are two devara sthalams within the main temple and one in the theradi. three temples very close to each other some temples are known to have devaram for two seperate internal shrines. thiruvaaroor, thiru pugalur, thiru miyach…

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