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Discovery channel on Big temple
this programe was aired a few years back i remember the elephant pushing and puling a 2 tonne rock ona remain of what they called the saram. but one thing to the credit was the angle of the saram seemed straight to the big temple. also i remember …

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
dear kamal most of the info on kattabomman was obtained from the walls of the memorial in panchalan kurichi. and another thing Kamal, just dont imagine the actual scenario by watching the movie v.p.kattabomman. you will be in for a shock when you s…

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PSVP
dear all a cd is an excellent idea( i can right now even imagine the cover) ms. uma can you give us a list of things you would like to see on a cd about cholas/ periya koil/ ps based on your recent purchase of egypt cd

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
literature is a two edged sword. as you said ponniyin selvan spurred on an interest in tamil history but then writers do get carried away sometimes. one classic case is veerapandiya kattabomman. veerapandiya kattabomman was one who paid his taxes…

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PSVP
-an informative website should be the firsat plan. with so many computer experts photos inscription details walk tro plan anything you need to know about the temple should be there. the materiel can go on to become a book later

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Chozha Army - Alexander
> Any pointers to Rajendra's inscriptions found in > Orissa / Bengal and overseas ? i read in one article about vizagapatnam that it was then kalingam? so perhaps kalingam did not mean only orissa

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Research and its philosophy
the style of sculpture and architecture the masons and the sculptors must have been trainees under one man or a school of thought during one era. or they may have all followed the design prevalent at that time. i certainly dont feel that the roya…

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Research and its philosophy
thousands of kalvettu may have been in palaces. the enemies destroyed the palaces perhaps irritated at the content. in chola land palaces were destroyed by invading pandyas who destroyed the palaces, ploughed the land and sowed crops( they were ju…

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Research and its philosophy
if somebody has an hypothesis that the mans picture right behind the lingam in periya koil is not rrc because there is no kalvettu mentiong it below than just because there is a kalvettu with two words gold and vimanam are the same people now ready …

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Research and its philosophy
Excellent satish to formulate a hypothesis is everybody's right we saw it happen in the entrance to the periya koil two words, pon and vimanam(?) the hypothesis is an extreme one.the entire vimana of periya koil was covered with gold. such a…

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Chola's in Srilanka--A tale of oppression ?
no indian army could win total victory in lanka( even ipkf) the two reasons were the terrain and malaria indian soldiers fell like flies to malaria while waiting for the sinhalese to come out of the forests only once can we call it total victory.…

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kalvettu vrs copper plates
dear all different civilisations have different ways of leaving their foot prints when i was deeply involved in learning about the delhi sultanate and the mughals i used to envy their diary keepers. wassaf tells us the exact day and time malik kafu…

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kalvettu vrs copper plates
Dear Krupa do you mean to say the chola history people have been learning from to school to post graduation has been gleaned from the kalvettus only. the bulk i am told is from the copper plates they left behind.chola history studies i have learnt…

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kalvettu vrs copper plates
meikeerthiyaa poikeerthiyaa sychophancy exists in every race most kings also had a inflated ego naturally with so many pulavars around kalki writes about it. when the pulavars come to see the bedridden sundara sola he laments. these people call m…

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Cholas in Thailand: How Chola culture influenced Thais?
dear all there is a lot of arab culture in kerala and the malabar coast that was not due to the invasion but because of trade similarly with hindu traders. they spread the culture far and wide. the legends of the far east mention princes from ind…

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Brahmins in RR's employ
kalki must have faced the question of bramhin employees also some reader must have pointed out to him that aniruththar and alwarkadiyan as bramhins were not supposed to cross the seas so in a later chapter he gives the explanation in one chapter o…

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Chozha Army
Rajendra's inscriptions found in Orissa / Bengal and overseas > several studies have already made and published. > > Re Karikalan's going to Himalayas, a pass is named as CHOZHA PASS > even today! > > There are instances …

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Cholas in Thailand: How Chola culture influenced Thais?
what is the meaning of the tamil word > Sugothaya? could also mean GOOD MORNING > > ----------->Dr.Deivanayakam says "Sugodhayam" means > sugam+udayam=pleasant dawn.Dr.Deivanayakam says that like how Korea > was call…

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Organized trip to Madurai
madurai is an enigmatic city. a city which was named after a drop of nectar where the goddess herself ruled where the lord performed his 64 miracles the cholas thought of it perpetually. they had a fixation for this city. named their sons madurant…

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Organized trip to Madurai
Dear all pandya trip is something I was suggesting too but we should travel by train overnight and start the trip from there. less tiring. southern members can join there itself another route we can consider is chennai- trichy overnight trichy-…

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: Chennai Tour
dear all we could do chennai chingelpet tour in half a day for full day tour we could include mahabs, tiger( yali) caves thiruvidanthai built by rrc. cavemen monuments can be seen as well as pallava pandya and chola type kalvettus can be read l…

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Vanathy
appa vanathi Ethaathu sonna enna kopam paaru so muthu you used to write under the name vanathy. thirunavukaasu - tamil nadus leading publisher named his publishing house and his daughter too as vanathi. he also wrote for sometime as kalki dasan. …

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BIG TEMPLE : PAINTINGS
- govindarajan and senthan amudan hey thats a good comparison devaram and flower plucking (but for senthan amudhan god rewarded him with the hand of bewitching pungkuzhali and the throne at thanjchai.) if any of you visit thirukadaiyur please go …

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BIG TEMPLE : PAINTINGS
sivanadiyar govindarajan is the care taker of the kadavur mayanam temple. people flock in thousands to the adjacent thirukadaiyur. but very few come here. inspite of that this man has spent his entire life looking after this temple and its gods s…

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women in ps
> > > Nandini- She is totally confusing. She can be said to enjoy the > > fact that she could make all the males a puppet.Her way of punishing > > males who were either arogant or proud. Other than that she doesn't > >…

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women in ps
ithaththaan ithaththaan naan ethir paarththEn meena now tell me how many of the 4 women really achieved what they had set to achieve who were the success stories and who the failures? venketesh

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BIG TEMPLE : PAINTINGS
> > And Dr. KB concluded his narrations! Peruvudayar went inside > Palliyarai! We were moving out of the big temple spell bounded! > > anbudan / sps that was a moving scene. wasnt it? temple lights being switched off. the sambrani …

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vandhiyadevan -
kunthavai knew about manimekalai. even pities her and encourages vd to go to kadambur to see her before dying. but she must have fallen in love with vanthiyathevan before that and one thing i dont understand is when manimekalai ( in book 5) pro…

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vimanam- big temple
bats are a perpetual problem in temples the odour and trash that they make . in many temples today they hang bunches of thorns to prevent their flying one innovation that i saw in a temple near tharangam badi( a fishing town) was that they had stret…

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New poll for ponniyinselvan
satish i can laugh as much as i want , i am at home if you laugh even you'll be at home soon sathish, its your duty to explain dhiwaker's words okay i shall members sorry if this is damaging to vanthiyathevans image building the weake…

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