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palace of tamilnadu
Also, when the enemy wins the country, he destroys the palace and not temples. They give grants to temples in their name after winning. ( Refer Pulikesin III s grants to Kanchi kailsanathar temple after winning it from pallavas. He did not avenge …

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Re :: RAJENDRA I - Ganga Jalam
He Conquered Devagairi, took supplies from there for attacking Warangal. t as envoy to Delhi Court ( Dignified name for prisoner) made to give army and supplies for attacking Madurai. Srirangam was attacked by Hindus and new converts. One of the n…

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Did medieval Chola Expansion have an objective?
I have another view. Till Maduranthakar Rule, Rajaraja has to be both kept away and busy. Simillarly when Rajaraja asceneded, Rajendra him self was in 30s and hence has to be kept busy and away. Hence the expeditions.

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Chola parikgrammam & trip to Cheyyur
Is Kanthalur chalai a Shaolin temple. Monks ( pundits) learning martial arts

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'? - Appar Swamigal
Sambandar was born when appar was in 60s and left much before him also. Appar at 18-19 itself a great jain scholar and converted into Saivism. Mahendra converted to saivam after realising the greatness of Appar. Then Mahendravarman lived for anot…

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trip to thanjavur
Hi Prabhu There is Thiruvadigai in Panruti where appar had siva's grace. There are two vishnu temples also in thiruvadigai. must see

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'? - Appar Swamigal
Dear Friend. Appar Swamigal was one of the leading Jain scholar and became saivaite. Since the jains went and complained to the king, fearing that more people will convert to Hinduism, they asked him to punish. Because of those punishments only th…

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about my native vriddhachalam
Dear friend I am not a historian but a religious person who looks history on religious angle. 1. Kandaradithan built on gopuram which was thundrstuck about 100-150 years back. It was in that condition for long time and renovated 30 -40 years back.…

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
Dear Friends What should be the lesson from the History. Is the attck on bengal and Orissa justifid at a time of muslim invassion on Delhi. Were they not aware of what is happenning in Delhi? If they can go all the way to kadaram to protect Hind…

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
Dear Sir, If the logic is " No body asked for help" from North. Then why Rajendra went to attack Bengal. Did they harm him. The matter of fact is they were too absorbed in their own pride. The vijayanagar empire alone can be held in est…

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Cholas Golden period
dear firend the word robber dynasty is not mine and i just picked he thread. My question is Rajendran and Kuothungan should have attcked delhi istead of bengal and orissa.

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
Dear Friends Can I acuse the following on Later Cholas: 1. They attcked and weakened the Kingdoms of Kadaram, Savakam, Java. This ultimately led to the collapse of Hindu culture there. 2. When Gajini was attacking Somnath, Rajendra Chola was attc…

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New file uploaded to ponniyinselvan
Thanks a lot We also recently saw how a person who tried ply with him and what the result was.

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Pillayarpatti, who built it? - erukattur
Dear SPS can you please find the article on excavations in Lower cauvery Valley. I have one more hope there. How can some one build such a massive idol, ( I had an oppertunity to worship inside till the age of 24, now darshan is not allowed insid…

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Muruga
Dear Kathie You are a desi now also Sundarar mentions people like you as " Appalum adi serndar" . people who live after the sea and still intrested in worshipping siva

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Re PILLAYAR - PILLAYARPATTI
Dear all I was also want to go through the article on Pillayar by Mahaswami and that is why i told Katherine that i will come back on the vatapi Ganapathi pictures she sent. The Mahaswami's analysis is not on the net ( deivathinkural, Kanchi m…

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Vathapy Ganapathy
Dear all One more intresting link. The periyamankulam ganesh is exactly like Pillayarpatti. ( but see 4 hands). The one in hand is clearly a fruit or modagam. All belong to pandyas and south of cauvery. ( Mostly in and around enga uru) http://ga…

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Vathapy Ganapathy
Dear all you can read thirumurugatrupadai in this link. 1. Brahma, Vishnu, Sivan, Dakshinamoorti ( Alamar selvan) Parvathi on both forms Malaimagal and Kotravai ( Kotravai Kumara) , Thirumagal all are there. 2. Can any one confirm that the thani p…

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Vathapy Ganapathy
Dear Mr Narasimhan With due respectes, i feel your theories are wild imaginations

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Vathapy Ganapathy
Dear Friends What is this STARTED: We have all Vedic Gods in Tamil culture Indra, Varuna, Vishnu, Muruga and Durga as the main gods of Aindinai. Shiva F/O Muruga was the head of first Tamil Sangam. Hetested Nakkeerar. ( This is not just story, …

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Dear Muruga has more vahanas 1. Indra sent his Elephant Aiyravadam. ( Murugans vahanam in Thiruttani and Swamimalai) 2. There is Ajavahana Murugan ( Goat)- In chidambaram tower

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Meaning of Alexander
Firends Alexander is Not Murugan Avatar. The meaning of his name is Skanda. That is it.

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Vathapy Ganapathy
Dear all Murugan is Kuringi god. So defenetly there must be some mention. I heard that there is a paripadal on thirupparamkundram and the murugan there. Valli was there before 9th century. "Valli Manalarku Thadai Kan" = Appar

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Early Ganapathy worship
Friend I have not said about a direct reference in Sangam Litrature. I refered to Kalladam which is i referred to belonging to sangam era. Asking for a direct proof from the society, which have lost most of its works is surprising.

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Early Ganapathy worship
Dear Venkat I am from Karaikudi and till 1988 there would be maximum of 10 people in any given day. The crowd started swelling after the dewasthanam started printing the photographs and the fame started spreading. Till 88, they allowed people to g…

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Meaning of Alexander
Dear Venkat No coincidence Kanchi Paramacharya after conscreting the skandagiri temple in secunderabad, gave this explanation of al iskandar and said that is why he constructed the skanda temple at sikkandarabad. I took from him only to write thi…

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Early Ganapathy worship
Dear Friend Please understand that we lost most of our litrature both Tamil and Vedic not only beacuse of invasions but also due to our negligence. Whatever little Sangam Litratue is available is a very small of the original ( Thanks to Tamil That…

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Early Ganapathy worship
Dear Vj Kumar So we have progrssed on Pillayar Like y 6th Century The indications are Ganapathi worship was there before the Vatapi conquest. The Ganabatheeswarams namely Thiruchengotankudi and Kanchi Anekadnkavadam were pre Thevaram period. T…

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Early Ganapathy worship
Dear Vijay The discussions started with thevaram no mentioning Ganapathi, for which the reply was " Ganapathyam" being a different sect. That is where i started writing and included Pillayarpatti. Some how there is a feeling in Tamilnad…

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Ganapathi is indeed mentioned in Thevaram at 2 places
Dear all Proof of prior to 6th Century 1. Kalladam's Kadavu Valthu 2. Pillayarpatti cave and the inscriptions of the cave Both are pre 4th Century But in the earlier discussions there were discussions on Ganapathi not mentioned in Thevaram …

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