• Hi
    i happened to have lunch at the restuarant @ sangam hotel in trichy
    yesterday.

    the entire dining area is decorated with scenes from ponniyin selvan
    and the restuarant is called sembiyan.

    must be an architect who is a member of our group who designed it????

    venketesh
  • Thank you Venkat.

    In Pondy Bazaar Saravana Bhavan also there are Tanjore painting -type
    portraits of PS. Sangam also would have been done by the same Interior
    Dec.

    In Trichy Ramyas, pencil (line) drawings of various temples - resembling
    SILPI - are displayed in the corridors !

    Poothi Vikrama Kesari (of Kodumbalur) and Periya Pazhuvettarayar (Chinna
    Pzhvtr - being imaginary) appear to be contemporary of Aditya (around
    920 AD) whereas PS Story era is around 969 !

    This should have been necessiated since none comparable to them is heard
    of during Sundara's last days.

    Vandhiyathevan appears to be more active post - Rajaraja period (means
    during Rajendra period) according to a Historian !

    So, portraiting Vandiyathevan as a Mappillai overstayed at Sundara from
    Thalaideevapavali might have been to accord more prominance to Kundavai
    !

    And imagine, Sembian Madevi - lived through the demise of her husband
    as well as son - and stuck to the Puhundaveedu - Chonadu ! for about a
    Century !

    regards/ sps
  • >
    > Poothi Vikrama Kesari (of Kodumbalur) and Periya Pazhuvettarayar
    (Chinna
    > Pzhvtr - being imaginary) appear to be contemporary of Aditya
    (around
    > 920 AD) whereas PS Story era is around 969 !
    >
    >

    sundara seems to have ruled till 970. perhaps he outlived aditya by 3
    years(????)
    so story must have taken place in 967-968.

    actually halleys comet appeared only in 989.( sure could have been
    another comet)

    is there a historical reference to the comet in chola copper plates or
    is it kalki's imagination.?
  • I dont have the source, but did read somewhere that the comet is mentioned in one of chola inscriptions

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