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In The Last 40 years we talked more about Tamizh but actually eneded up having more population which takes Hindi/French/.. as second language. Worstmost do not even propnounce it propoerly. Now Zha is gone, One La, One na and one ra is pronounced. …

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 9
In Ramayana, lakshman leaves sita after crossing river . The ashrammust belocated some where there. But on the other hand , these legends are associated with 3 temple in chennai. I have also in an earlier mail noted that thirumullaivayil and Thir…

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village deities
The Muni Story of Tirumullaivayil associates all of them with Rishi ( Munivars), When seven munis are worshipped together - they represent only Munivars. Now we need to explore the reason for naming them Muneeswaran.- Is Muni eeswaran is the head …

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 9
The song sung By Appar for opening the door is different. Appar sung5 thevarams for the temple. He sung Pannin Ner Mozhiyar Umai Bangaro - for opening the door. ( Kadavai thirandarul seimine) Both Sambandar and Appar went inside and sung. Sambandu…

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 6
Siruvapuri, siruvarampedu, siruvai are the same. The link of thiruppugazh given explains it

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 7
we will discuss it in the 9th mail

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K.S.Sankaranarayanan's contributions
Dear all Thanks for your kind words All this goes to many people from whom 90% of the things i learn/learning/learnt. I am only structuring them and posting it. For that 10% also credit is to the learnings in office. I am learning a lot from many pe…

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
there is another version - inncident is the story i told but the person is Thirumalai nambi.( not anandalwar). The inncident happened under the maghizha tree.

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 6
yes vardini.

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Panchamadevi
Villupuram: 1. kanchi paramacharya's Birth place. his house and the room where he was born are temple now. 2. kailasanathar temple - very old. has many chola inscriptions 3. vaikunda perumal temple - again chola period. 4. anjaneyar laksha …

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 6
I think it is valmikis samadhi. 1. Thiru vanmiyur is worshipped by valmiki 2. koyambedu is called Kusalavapuri and the lord is kusalava pureeswarar. It is where valmiki had his ashram and sita gave birth to luv and Kush. 3. Siruvarampedu alias ch…

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Old name of Coimbatore??
Kollam Poodhur is in Tanjore dt. This place is where Sambandar crossed the flooded river on a boat without a boatman. it happenned on a deepavali day and the festival is conducted now. That is the first temple he visited after returning from pandya …

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
when you enter the main entrance ( after the final baggage checking) , to your right side, that is exit side.There is a board also. it is hanging in the wall. This is the entrance. while entering look to your right side.. On its wall it is hanging.

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
after the ramayanam series is over - i will strat mamanum marumaganum. that is another intresting lead i got from a very old tamil scholar ( who did not reveal his identity and in fact refuced to reveal. Hegave me lot of details) in cannemearh libr…

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
It is called swayamvyakta ( equivalant to swayambu in saivam) the idol is supposed to have been originated on its own Do you know that Tirumala and Srirangam were theer from Silappadigaram period ( 2nd AD) according to In Maduraikandam Kovalan a…

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
I will tell the story in quickly. People started worshipping the lord at Ilamkovil ( as it was difficult to reach tirumala for public in those days. the idol used seems be the one given by samavai for procession. Next time i will somehow enter the …

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 2
There are many articles on Ramayana in tamil Litrature. I am compiling all the songs quoted by these people, adding whatever little i can. I will start adding to those with Thevaram & Prabandams from 7 onwards. This will give a clear picture of…

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Ramayanam before Kamban - 4
Friends In this song, Poonai is mentioned as Poosai. The various urais of this song also refer poosai as poonai. The worship poosai is tamizhaised form of Sanskrit Poojai.

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Panchamadevi
My mother is from Villupuram ( Santana Gopalapuram)and my summer veccations were spent in that area. One branch of family still there. There is a beautiful ramar temple in a place called " kappiyampuliyur" ( puli) route is Puravarpanamka…

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village deities
There is another belief in many people in tamilnadu. it is infact an ill informed campaign. Many think that the village Gods are not worshipped by all. Many even propagate their god and our God. Upper ... Lower.. etc etc. The matter of fact for many…

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
This Gadapparai is related to the Ilamkoil. i will write this within a week

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village deities
Muneeswaran: This is another important Village deity. there are many forms of this god. The Pachaiamman temple in thirumullaivoyil is a beautiful temple which houses all the Munis. They have clearly explained under each muni.They dont allow to take…

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Amazing dharpai - Kusha Grass
Punyavahachanam is for purification. ie suddhi. Sometimes instead of telling suddhi, they call swasti. For eg child birth is an auspicious occassion but since a vruddi ( theetu) associated with that and on 11th day a punyavahchanam is to be done. so…

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Sri Krishnadevaraya
Very intresting satish There is a image of krishnadevaraya with his wives in Tirumala. This was made by his wife Tirumaladevi and offered to the temple during one of the royal visits of Krishnadevaraya to Tirumala. ( On seeing the face , i feel he…

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Amazing dharpai - Kusha Grass
1. Gold ring: Gold ring is some thing different, which is in use for having done a pitru karma. It is not equivalant to Pavitram. Darba grass only to be used for the ring. Though there is no difference between swasti and suddi punyavahchanam, he …

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Puducherry
--- Of course people have protested: 1. The temple and idols were descreted ( experts from diary) http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/pillai/vol01/01_332.pdf Looks the french took advantage of war, people moving…

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Puducherry
Dear Mani if you could get a copy of the anandarangam pillai diary, check. Looks the gap between the destruction and construction is 30-40 years. henec he might not have written. Talk to the gurukkals - they may give more details. The idols inde…

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Puducherry
The details were given by the archaka of perumal temple. he showed me the places where the idols were unearthed. Perumal temple was rebuilt at the same site. Siva temple was rebuilt next to vishnu temple, which inncidently had another previous templ…

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village deities

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Amazing dharpai - Kusha Grass
Dear Members Apart from punyavachanam, if you have any more doubts, please send me. I am meeting two great scholars on Sunday. I will note down these doubts, get the deatils from them and send you.

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