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Artist Silpi's Drawings ? / Kattabomman
a couple of years ago ananda vikadan brought out a commomerative volume with many of silpis sketches. there was an article about shilpi too in kumudam( a series of great tamils) will search. I think the copyright of the pictures is held by vikadan a…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
-Hai sathish now that you talk of "hey ram" the main point of the story was lifted from the novel delhi by khuswantsingh. when one hindu refugee from pakistan wants to assasinate gandhi and just before he pulls out his gun nathuram gods…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
-Dear Sri freedom at midnight was the book that changed my outlook on gandhi.I read it in school. to me he changed from a whimsical and weak leader into a man with mammoth intellect.one who could match machivelli for every move. he was not weak I…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
true most of the indian kings were tyrants and bled the country dry. the lives of the princes was crazy. debauchery and lavishness bled the country. thats a different subject altogether but the charecter of the kings was nothing to boast of. the b…

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New Member (not exactly)
Dear Ram Mohan karthik narayanans translation of ponniyin selvan would stand no chance against the original. and even against any novel your children might read in english.for instance harry potter and his hogwarts antics. so please read a ew cha…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
sampaththukku oru salaaam he has hit the nail on its head we as students of history should realise there was no entity called india till just before the british left. and the indianness started with 1857. kattabomman and maruthu pandyar were feu…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
Dear uma the present sivaganga royal family has not descended from the maruthu brothers. their descendants live in an area called aranmanai siruvayal. they are still honoured on the ther thiruvizha of kalayar koil every may month kattabomman had no…

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Yet another ardent fan of PS..
Hai Gokul, there is a paadal petra sthalam called thiru vaal koli puthur between mayavaram and manalmedu.( a temple with a legend of arjuna's sword).very close to kalkis child hood residence sambandar and sundarar have sung about this place …

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
Dear Sri kattabomman the movie and sivagangai seemai the film kattabomman was not without its share of controversies. Denouncing the glorification of Kattabomman, Thamizhvaanan wrote "kattabomman telungan! koLLaikkaran! avanukku munbE pulith…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
Dear Sri some info I gathered on kattabomman- the man Paanchalankurichi is a hamlet 18 kms from Thoothukkudi. It was here that Veerapandian, the 47th king of Paanchalankurichi was born on January 3rd, 1760 to Jagaveera Kattabomman and Aarmugatham…

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Yet another ardent fan of PS..
Dear Gokul, perhaps sambuvarayars did not live during the times of cholas but if they had, they have certainly outlived them. I was reading about two foreign forts in the coramandel coast. sadras( once could have been a twin city of madras) near pre…

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Chola's in Srilanka--A tale of oppression ?
dear all contrary to the regular tamil invasion of lanka there was a sinhalese invasion of tamilnadu by a warrior called lankapura thanthanaathan.the conquest was well executed i have read. i remember reading about him way back. does anyone have any…

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
Dear Sri the kattabomman legend was started by the theru koothu movement and came into the drama companies ahead of the dmk movement but making a pakka telugu speak the most remembered tamil vasanam of the century was an achievement- dont you thin…

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Chola's in Srilanka--A tale of oppression ?
> second dont derogorate indsian soldiers...They had surrounded > Prabhakaran on numerous occasions and always Delhi advised them to let Dear Sri, far more than my patriotism i am convinced of an historical fact that its very difficult to w…

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Yet another ardent fan of PS..
Dear Gokul I am sure nobody would have bothered about sitrasar clans like the pazhuvettaraiyar and the sambuvarayar and the kodumbalur clan except for kalki's imagination which gave them a new lease of life. something must have triggered off …

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Yet another ardent fan of PS..
-more than once in ps periya pv talks to chinna pv and calls him thambi kaalaanthaka. venketesh

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Yet another ardent fan of PS..
Dear shanker welcome and your query had most of us stumped . but it was great to realise how new people add a diferent facet and a fresh way of looking at things. for when I searched for a mention of p.pv's actual name I stumbled upon sambuv…

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varunakulathan
Hai there was a lot of trouble with the portugese in lanka during the times of the rule of one sangili- a regent. he is thought to have sought the help of tanjore. it was sangili I think who was taken to goa and beheaded. varunakulathan may alos …

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PS Facts and Fiction : Aazhvar Parantakan Kundavaip Pirrattiyar -2
dear swetha perhaps (disregarding spelling) alvar( one who rules) should also be considered for kundavai was not just a next door girl types. pen puli the pazhvettaraiyars called her. the more i think about her dominance over arulmozhi the more i …

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PS Facts and Fiction : Aazhvar Parantakan Kundavaip Pirrattiyar -2
dear all lets first work out the ages of all charecters according to kalki during the progress of ps the ages of aditya karikalan - 20( sevur por +4) kundavai- 18 rrc -16 vanathi-14(?????) vanthiyathevan- 20(??????) if swetha's theory that…

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Trip to Srilanka
Hi Uma had a feeling I visited the sigiriya palace chola history cannot be studied alone. we have to study their contemprories too to learn what their world was like. perhaps the sinhalese were the closest independent kingdom to cholas( they had ha…

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Pon sei visit
Dear Ram the temple is same natrunaippar and parvathaputhri sung by all three perhaps the memory must be wrong. must be some other temple which i confused with.

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Pon sei visit
dear all I remember faintly that in punjai the space around the lingam in the sanctum is extremely large. the gurukkal said an elephant used to circle it in the hey days. plenty of major temples in that area.tail end of kaveri very prosperous in …

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Pon sei visit
> > There should have been a sculptor - a master sculptor whom I use to > call "vakeesar" in my stories - who actually did pullamangai and > ponsai. Same hands or same team - no doubt ! there is a legend that durgais at patte…

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
Dear Arun true , very true. but a very colourful period in history if you view it without a bias the king of pegu( burma) offered a ransom for the tooth but the zealous archbishop had it destroyed. incidentally the viceroy of goa that time was a br…

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Pon sei visit
punjai is actually thiru nani palli( sambandar period name- 8th century) nearby temple is sembonpalli( sembanarkoil) sambandar as a 4year old visited this temple squatting on his father's shoulders. the great thing is that he mentions this in …

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
dear Arun three theories. one was that it grew wings and flew back( no joking- its the buddhist view) the second was the original tooth is safe and a decoy was what was stolen. the third was dom gaspar the archbishop of goa ground it in a petle a…

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
> a Pandya Princess travelled to Srilanka with the > Buddha Tooth hidden in her hair-do and entered > Srilanka. > Hi Uma actually buddhas tooth was from kalinga According to Mahavansa, the Great Chronicle, the Tooth Relic was brough…

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
hai uma so you went on a guided trip to sri lanka i have been there many times on my own and moved much with the locals. > > Srilanka has a lot of paintings yes many of them are in the style of the big temple's upper reaches and much b…

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Trip to Srilanka - Lighter
any way there is very little chance we can make the sea trip from kodikarai to mathottam( via bhootha thivu where we have to drop one passenger) on a boat that moves onthe powers of present day poongkuzhalis. the route is however well frequented by…

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