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Parthiban Kanavu
War scene depictions ( not present day - olden style) the best were - Troy ( the beach landing scene is one of the best coreograhed fight scenes) - lord of the rings - special effects and the sheer scale of the sets - Mel gibson ( braveheart, pat…

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Mediaeval Manuscript Library at Chidambaram
South Indian palm-leaves used for writing are of two types, a thin papery leaf ("talipot") that can, in optimal conditions, be preserved for centuries (some Nepalese manuscripts of this type survive from the ninth century), and a thicker, …

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Tamil novel released
Hi diwakar sir, Your should have squeezed yourself into the screen as well - thanks once again for bringing vicitiran, gommai & maran in flesh and blood via your words

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KANDALUR CHALAI - CONQUEST
Vizhingnam - This is another of India wasting a tremendrous prospect in maritime trade..which has not been tapped for so long under bueurocratic red tape - is a natural port, which is located close to the international shipping route.Nearly 20,0…

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Historical records - the charm of dwelling into the past
Hi, This is true - this is also the reason why Pakistan got theirs on 14th - a day ahead of us. You can read more on these and why the exact date was picked by Mountbatten in the book Freedom at midnight - when the viceroy took charge with a…

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Historical records - the charm of dwelling into the past
hi sir, the linkto the audio file: http://www.harappa.com/sounds/nehru.html text of the speech Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substa…

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Historical records - the charm of dwelling into the past
...a lure of a simple spice led us into bondage. the deeds of a few great men and millions of unnamed behind them led us out of it. Let not their efforts be in vain, even if you dont remember each and every one of them, you owe them a reward for …

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The reading habit - how you get progressively faster
Rishis and dead birds seem to have some commonality The transcendental outburst of emotion of valmiki onseeing the hunter shooting down the kraunca bird led to the immortal ramayana The famous shloka that vAlmIki utters when he witnesses the kill…

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The story of the Chola conquest of Travancore is equally untenable.
hi anyone from trivandrum, to take on this thread and check out below claims...vj

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Alwars ...nice site
hi gokul you are right...read in the ASI website description that - The epithet Alvar is taken to be one of respect. It may also indicate that the person was dead at the time!!

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Kaviri Mainthan Book .
Hi venkat Its always been in the back of my mind while reading PS - about arulmozhi being well versed in the art of elephant rearing ( yaanai paaga - vanadhi episode)..you also write about his prowess in the madurai/vaigai showdown with the rogu…

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Tiruvenkaadu
> > Sembian Madevi changed this from Brick to Katrali.. Her efforts seem to cap every major temple - since we are in the mood to compile lists - would be great to run up a list of temples that were rebuilt in stone by sembian madevi ....…

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Mediaeval Manuscript Library at Chidambaram
I am not a technical guy on this - but someone can check and advise if we can use metal detectors to to detect metals underneath floors or inside walls - they do use electromagnetic induction to detect metal - and we see them being used extensive…

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Irwing Wallace
yes, lot of such legends abound... Puli thevar . after many stunning exploits against the british, finally fell prey to the cunningnss of arcot nawab - was arrested by the British and as he was led to the gallows , he is said to have asked for h…

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Why should we read the Gita
http://www.vaisnava.cz/clanek.php3?index=350&no=24&hl=ANO check out above link - its got the sanskrit recital in mp3 format. the rendition is sublime...

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Mediaeval Manuscript Library at Chidambaram
hi, udal singapore, uyir still in chola land....thanks for the compliments, i just spend a half an hour a day - working threads...thanks to advise frm sps sir, i try n phase them into the group gradually ..allowing for meaningful discussions ( …

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Mediaeval Manuscript Library at Chidambaram
hi, check out this link http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/pub/pm0060/valamatal.pdf a 950 year old yet-to-be-published palm-leaf translation - that has been put on project madurai directly!!!! if my memory serves right, my uncle mentioned that…

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Mediaeval Manuscript Library at Chidambaram
Lovely site..... Introduction: The sacred sequence of the Sixty-Three Nayanars By Vidya Dehejia http://www.skandagurunatha.org/deities/siva/nayanars/introduction_sac red_sequence.asp

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Tiruvenkaadu
Orcourse, i have heard that the legend of ammaiyar is even prevalent in cambodia and a few depictions of her at seen in the khmer temples

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Tiruvenkaadu
Yes, staunch devotees do find odd ways to worship - karaikkal ammaiyar (in her her skeleton form) - is said to have proceeded to kailash. Feeling that it would be a great sin to place her foot on those sacred grounds, she made the last part of th…

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Tiruvenkaadu
http://www.shaivam.org/nachirut.html Burnt the lust, which could burn all the discipline, with the beautiful eye between the brows - that Lord's graceful abode is thiruchcheN^kAttaN^kudi . In that town came the man of unimaginable great dee…

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Prince of ophthalmology
The Colacampu and the Brihadisvaramahatmya, two Sanskrit texts written during or just before or during Serfoji's reign are said to narrate respectively the geneology of the cholas and their connection with the big temple. anyone read these

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Mahabarata in telugu - first efforts
Read that the pallava inscriptions in mamallapuram trace their geneology as below Brahman Bharadvaja Sudhaman Drona Asvatthama, married to the Apsaras Madani Pallava and so on. Drona was a brahmin and if so, is this linked to bharadvaja gothram …

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whre is paalaiyarai now ???????
Hi, when i first enlisted into the group - i was like a kid let loose in a playstore - viewing every thread with the same glee that my son has in his eyes when he sees adyar ananda bhavan paneer jamun or krishna sweets mysorepa....the interesting…

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Tiruvenkaadu
beautiful.... do you have more info on below temple as well Nithya Kalyana Perumal Temple : This holy shrine is one among the 100 temples called Tirupathy. The goddess Lakshmi is also called as `Thiru'. The presiding diety is holding her…

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Catalogue of historical novels
dear venkat that is one of the objectives of projectmadurai. it is a voluntary initiative to publish free versions of ancient Tamil literature on the Internet. Texts are published in both TSCII and Unicode formats. http://www.tamil.net/projectmad…

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whre is paalaiyarai now ???????
found this already discussed in the old posts Re: [ponniyinselvan] List of places featured in PS Dear all... Sathya, Sridhar, Muhil, thanks:-) G,I'm sure there're plenty of people in the group who have more expertise in this than I …

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whre is paalaiyarai now ???????
hi, Akilan's vengaiyin mainthan is an excellent book detailing more of RJC's exploits -his e(i)llam conquest, securing the pandya diadems from rohanam, ganges campaign and building of GKC ( sadly it stops with his naval expedition to k…

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Catalogue of historical novels
yes venkat - i was taken aback by the number...8000.and you are right about being out of print, even in big bookshops the tamil lang sections occupy a very small area...and even in that half is samayal kurippugal etc. imagine the amount of effor…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi venkat, got below from Dr Kalyan: On the historical novels, I do have an online database of over 8000 Tamil novels published. It is accessible from my Tamil electronic library webpage http://tamilelibrary.org/biblio/ You can search for what…

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