Dear All its interesting that we have come one full circle to Ganapathi Stapathi When we were constructing Bigtemple I was crying out aloud to make contact with him but in vain because it looks like he is an expert in architecture
> > There is also the story of the Barber's Bridge, a modern English > > translation of what people called the Ambattan Bridge. The bridge > > was actually named Hamilton Bridge but locals soon mispronounced it > > as `ambattan' (Tamil word for barber). The new city authorities, > > hoping to remember the British, renamed it Barber's Bridge. > >
just last week we discussed. a 1887 map of madras marks this bridge as barber's bridge