seshadrigokul

Were there any vaishnavite Kings??
The question of religion was left to the individual in those days - thus, a father and son may actually patronize different religions altogether! One of the later pallava kings (forgot his name!) was a very staunch vaishnavite. I think he built the …

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Aruludai cholamandalam & varungala viyal
Dear Mr.SB, I happened to read a book "Kudanthai Senthuraman Aivu Katturaigal" by sekar publications. This is the first and only book I've read from the author. Even in this book, Sethuraman talks a lot about astronomical details. Yo…

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Ponniyin Selvan - The Sequel - What happened next??
> Oooh...but why did Kulothungan- from the daughter's line- come to the > throne? Wasn't there anyone else in the main Chola line to follow the > previous King? The last son of Rajendra chola - athi rajendra died young without he…

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Vallam - " A Gowri amman"
Dear Mr.SB, I have read about this amman in a small but interesting book called "Varalatril vallam" by Mr.Raamamoorthy (Tholliyal Aivuthurai) Shall we call her "Ae Gowri amman" ? (Because A Gowri amman would mean some gowri am…

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Pillayarpatti Vinayagar
Atleast there were five avvaiyars :-)) * The one who got nellikani from sangam age king adhiyaman (1 to 3 AD) * The avvaiyar who was during sundarar - seraman perumal time (7 AD) * A later date avvaiyar who sang athi chudi and kondrai vendan (?) …

Comment by seshadrigokul July 2003 permalink
Leiden plates in Leiden
Dear all... This is actually a very detailed topic if we go deep. Thilak - did you see case of nataraja.gif uploaded in our files section by Poo ? That answers some of your questions. In short, our ancient artifacts reached foreign lands due to many…

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Kalamugas and Kapaligas
The way we came to know about laguleesa cult is quite interesting. There was a temple in orissa belonging to this cult. At some point of time this temple got destroyed and one of the big inscriptions belonging to this temple was taken by portuguese …

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"Ponniyin Selvan"- Mail from Madhan -- EUREKA!!!! GOT IN TOUCH WITH MADAN ...
Dear suji, Not a problem at all - don't worry too much about the lost mail:-)) I request one of our chennai nanbargal to proceed with this communication. We may probably send the tamizh article I've written about our group - with relevant…

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"Ponniyin Selvan"- Mail from Madhan -- EUREKA!!!! GOT IN TOUCH WITH MADAN ...
Dear suji, You have approached the right person - congrats and keep it up. If there is one guy known today for his interests in history, it is Madhan. He was invited to singapore recently for releasing a book titled "varalatril Indru". …

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Welcome to vino
Nanbar Raaja avargale, Neengal solvadhu romba unmai - nam uyarvai thooki pidikka aduthavargalai kurai solvadhu avasiyamillai. Aaanal - naan solvadhai neengal en kuraiyaga ninaikereergal ? Is it not true that a few people write quite a lot ? Adai t…

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Vanakam
Kappian avargale, Varuga varuga! Kaappiyan endru padikka vendumo ? Nalla peyar ! Manimekalai anbukku edu inai edhu ? Idhai patriyum karikalan maranam patriyum niraya pesi irukkirom. Archives section poi pazhaiya mailgalai kaanga.

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Mylai Seeni's books
Hi poo.. That was a very good news indeed ! I'm sure that the late scholar is blessing us on our earnest efforts. I think you spoke to Mr.Devarasan - is that so ? When you go there, pl ask him whether there are any unpublished works of the s…

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Sariththiram palagu
Nanbargale / Tozhigale, Thanks - thanks a lot for all the encouraging comments ! I initially wanted to write a serious article highlighting the importance of history but in the end, it turned out to be a different beast altogether !

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Mylai seeni's works - my appeal to agathiyam kuzhu
Krups, Enna thiru adhu idhunnu - bayamuruthareengale ! Ennai perusakka muyalum indha muyarchiyai vanmayaga kandikiren :-))) I know that you have not visited them in person - but I don't understand why their tel is not responding. Also, they h…

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Mylai seeni's works - my appeal to agathiyam kuzhu
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Update on journals
Arul, Poo, Malini and Pavitra - Very good work. Proof reading such a detailed document is no joke. I find it very difficult to go through all the stuff in one go. 'Should have taken you guys lot of time and effort. Nandriyai thavira veru enna …

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Update on journals
Dear Magesh, I share your opinion. I got this impression even before reading sons of sun - there was one more paper on chola conquest over srilanka uploaded by mani - and that was even more damaging. Neverthless, I give due respect for this scholar…

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Conference in Vellore by Tamilnadu Archeological Society
Kamal anne, Printed notices : I have a good writeup already - extracted from our Introductory note. I wrote it for a local singapore magazine - but could not get it published. Modify the same and use it. I'll upload it in files sec. My vanoli …

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Conference in Vellore by Tamilnadu Archeological Society
Kamal, There seems to be a divided opinion with this whole stuff - within conference - what to do, is the question. May be you have to come out with some figures (amount which we may have to contribute together) and then we can see what is the opi…

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The first SUN temple
Kamal, Very interesting and informative mail! I've made it as an article with my inputs and uploaded it in the files section (chakarapallitemple.rtf) Later on, as we get more inputs, we will collect them and make it a varalaaru webpage - possi…

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OCR in Tamil
Excellent - Krupa. Can you engage in a dialogue with those guys on our behalf and try to get the software ?

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inital PS Database design
Krips, Meta keywords is purely search engine stuff. Search engine spiders, when they "crawl" over our web pages, will link these meta keywords in appropriate headings. Later on, when an innocent party types those keywords, search engines w…

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Analysis on Kalaikkovan's answers #1
Kamal, I thought about this. Arguement 1: I think they should have taken mud from this place for constructing other saarams and hence the place became "pallam. Over a period of time, it came to be known as sarapallam. Arg 2 : Sarapallam is …

Comment by seshadrigokul June 2003 permalink
Conference in Vellore by Tamilnadu Archeological Society
Sri, I cannot deny that there is lot of truth in your statment. I think we are doing it for ASI, not really for the participants. It is quite unfortunate that ASI may not have that many partnerships or people who care for them - that's why Mr.…

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inital PS Database design
Hi Jana Had a quick look at the database. This is fine to begin with. But the question is - how are we to upload this database and work with it online? We need to subscribe to a webspace that supports MS access. The second thing is that we need t…

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Conference in Vellore by Tamilnadu Archeological Society
Sounds nice. Rubber stamp is OK - but if possible just print it on the cover page of the scribbling pad itslef. If you go to a normal typeset printer (not offset!) - who do notices etc - they will do it for a very nominal charge. And if the cost is …

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What do you think Gokul?
Hi Mathy, What is your proposal in this activity ? Sorry if I have missed something - but I'm unable to see any specific proposal in the mail for PS group.

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Atttn.Kamal : Excerpts from works of Dr.M.Rajamanickanar
Hi Kamal, Great progress. We need to spk to Mr.Arasu and ask for permissions to reproduce full books (may be a few) and parts of books (the rest). If posible, kindly get copies of the book too. The first should be "chozhar varalaru" - of c…

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PS - Status Tracking Mechanism
Dear jana, Quite a significant idea - I have not seen your excel as yet - but would prefer a database table for one simple reason: A Database table can be easliy updated online whereas an excel has to be downloaded, edited and uploaded - which is a…

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Dr.Jaybee and the World Wide Web
Pavi, Who is the publisher of this book and where can we get it?

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