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vimanam- big temple
hai kamal first the inner walls are not smooth seemed to have belt sort of lines i assumed the bats must be hanging from those small projections and so it was possible kudavil solrathu "ithaiyaavathu" niir nambalaam:-) venketesh

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trip
places seen most places with any historical value were pointed out from the bus. stone age - british period all padal petra sthalams and places with inscriptions too were included. on the way to tanjore we stopped at ennaayiram corner we also stop…

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Thanjai Trip - Places Ennayiram
- ENNAYIRAM was a flourishing educational centre during the Chola period. also called Raja Raja Chaturvedimangalam it was a "thaniyur" (independent village) directly coming under the control of the king The word Ennairam means 8000 in T…

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travelouge
members brush up your geography and ponniyin selvan what is the first thing concerned with ps or mentioned it will we see when we proceed down south on this trip? also what route must have vanthiyathevan taken from kanchipuram to kadambur. which …

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Thanjai Trip :: Lighter Side
va va un viittil tea saappittu oru O podurom va

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travelouge
hai Dhiwaker I guess vadalur is on the route panrutti, neyveli, sethiathope are also on this route. somebody please remind us when we cross the kedilam river kalki makes a glorious mention of it

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travelouge
I'll start first veeraanam lake man made, - a chola made his idle army dig this and the supply canal vishnu temple on the banks-important in finding and classification of the vaishnavaite songs in ps story starts and ends here anything el…

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Thanjai Trip :: Saturday 03.09 / Sunday 04.09
what swetha madam thiru valanjuliyil only tea ya??????????? (venumnaa porai vaangi vaikarEn sollidaathiinga)

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TV Serial on PS -
Hi sri what a field day a good(!) director would have with the battle where vijayalaya without legs fighting from the shoulder of a paluvettaraiyar clan member. I think ponniyin selvan is an emotion filled novel rather than one with actions.only t…

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manimagudam & rathina haram
or perhaps it was never discovered??????????????

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manimagudam & rathina haram
Hi sri isnt it rather surprising that a treasure the cholas hunted for almost a century doesnt have any more historical mentions, after its finding. it was something the publicity department of the cholas could have harped about for another couple …

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My weekend news
Hai ram temples where all three ( appar , sambandar and sundarar) have sung devaram itself is rare and sanctified( iso2004 mark maathiri) they only number 44. where all four have sung much more rare - perhaps only a handful chidambaram,thiru kaz…

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My weekend news
the place which had the fortune of being sung by the esteemed quartet ala appa, sundarar, sambandhar and manickavasagar. I was in a place called Thiruvalam, a thondai mandala devarasthalam. Dear Ram your line should have read "being sung by …

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My weekend news
nandi with a water flow from its mouth ( till very recent) in thiruvural also called thakkolam( see we brought a link with ps) now please can any one tell us now or on the trip how the original brihadeeshwarar temple was at the time of the origin…

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My weekend news
thiruvallam nandi fought with a asura named kanjan( nice name) who refused to give water to the temple so nandhi went and beat him up. and places where his body parts fell are all named after it wherever his blood drops fell a lingam came up people …

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My weekend news
other nandi trivia in thirumullai voil near avadi the nandi faces the same direction as the god showing his back to the lingam its helping a local thondaiman in battle nandi ofset is in thirupungur near vaithiswaran koil( for nandanar)

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My weekend news
> My second temple visit over the weekend was more of a serendipity. I was attending my friend's engagement near Vellore. Little did I know about the place which had the fortune of being sung by the esteemed quartet ala appa, sundarar, samba…

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TV Serial on PS -
error regretted jai dear all now that the serial is about to start as devoted followers of ps which scene in ps do you think will cost most i personally thought the cyclone and tsunami scene in nagapattinam would cost the most

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Rivers & Places related to PS
dear sps where could the pier/ quay - thonithurai that maran, vanthiya thevan, idumban kari and alwarkadiyan meet in the early chapters be? must be a couple of hours horse ride from kadambur according to the story. for maran sends off vd. noticed o…

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places and importance in ps
hey what do you mean we wont cross kollidam??? the vikravandi- kudanthai road must cut kollidam before we come to cauvery. no? i was always told the walls of gkc were broken by the british to lay the foundation of the kollidam bridge? was that the…

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places and importance in ps
rivers rivers are good landmarks of course kollidam river bank where vanthiyathevan and his friend maran are on friendly terms for the lasdt time kudanthai josiers house is on a bank of river will we not cross these two areas tanjore people shou…

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places and importance in ps
veeraaanam--- importance 1) the ps story starts here 2)one great scene with vandiyathevan, aditya karikalan, manimekalai and nanthini on its banks they are marooned here. one nice scene where you get a feeling that kalki has not decided how to fin…

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RAJARAJA - WHERE DOES HE REST?
Dear Swetha normally the queen who produces a heir is given a lot of importance why not vanathi did she die early? and the olagamhadevi the main quees of whic country was she a princess of ?

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RAJARAJA - WHERE DOES HE REST?
dear all did any queen perform sati ( udan kattai)with raja raja? sundara sola's wife performed sati i hear?

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veeranam??
i dont think muruganandam and dhiwaker will see eye to eye on bhootha thiivu also so one of them in combination with the bhootham will definitely win in the duel

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veeranam??
bhootha thiivil karadi mattum illai kaathali kuuda irunthaal( sundara solanukku) if history repeats itself ithu thaan chance endru dhiwaker bhootha thiivil settle aay viduvaar

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Mann Vasanai
dear Dhiwaker 1000 veli kaara viittu ammaave utharavatham thanthutaanga ini oru paya ungkalai onnum seyya maattaan uruthi konda nenjinaai va va va venketesh

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Tanjore trip :: FINAL CALL
Dear sps arent you showing us veeranam lake? please consider. heard its getting full. we'll see its splendour as vandiyathevan did venketesh

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C H I D A M B A R A M - Medieval Settlements :: Nagarathar
Hai meena this book is about one of the 9 temples of chettinad. the first temple with the richest members of the society coming under this koyil written by the editor of kumudam chettiars ( nagarathars)have a wonderful sense of honouring the past…

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RAJARAJA - WHERE DOES HE REST?
Dear sri and sps i seem to have heard a local rumour that rrc died before the mandalabishekam of big temple was over but the dates dont match and the death place people used to say is porto novo- parangipettai near chidambaram. any credence to the…

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