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275 tevara temples - Chola and Pandya dynasties
Hi devaram shrines are temples for which devaram has been found. that all hundreds of temples must have had devaram but not found for example thiru votriyur and thiruvanmiyur are sung by appar but not mylapore when he must have crossed to go fro…

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Basic Doubt - Post RRC. Marathas in Tanjore.
Hi aurangazeb sent a hindu rajput general to battle sivaji. perhaps a master stroke to prevent polarisation of the locals/ or soldiers on religious basis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Singh_I venketesh

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Basic Doubt - Post RRC. Marathas in Tanjore.
Hi i think sivaji's father himself worked for the sultans. and sivaji was not hesitant to join hands with the deccan sultanates against a collective enemy -the mughals

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Basic Doubt - Post RRC. Marathas in Tanjore.
Hi we need to differntiate between the tanjore nayak and the tanjore marata. and i always wondered if the tanjore empire extended to poompuhar during the abirama battar -serafoji meeting? venketesh

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Shadows and vimanams (was KARUVURAR)
chidambaram seems aligned to cardinal directions but outer walls are skewed how would an ancient architect align his temple to the cardinal direction when he did not have a compass? would he wait for an equinox? venketesh

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Group Activities
and its a fact that newcomers join us for ponniyin selvan related activities and we need to cater to their interests too. venketesh

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Shadows and vimanams (was KARUVURAR)
Hi the temple is tilted and not true to the cardinal directions. some how it was built parallel to the vadavar on the south or was the river diverted(?) wonder which of our other great temples were true to direction venketesh

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Shadows and vimanams (was KARUVURAR)

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kingdoms identified themselves with cholans
its the second time its happening. one of my old messages coming up again. seems so out of context venketesh

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kingdoms identified themselves with cholans
add later cholas too? who before vijayalayan to connect them to original cholas? venketesh

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Basic Doubt - RRC Pallippadai and Rjc Cremation?
> Serfoji (it's easy to get that spelling right, I'd hope) pretty much lost his > kingdom; it was either surrender to the British or lose his life. > > A happy consequence of his giving up is that the temple was now under Bri…

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Basic Doubt - RRC Pallippadai and Rjc Cremation?
sivaji did come upto vellore. his grandson ruled from tanjore. reposting a link http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article386670.ece

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THE BIG TEMPLE IN POST RAJARAJA TIMES
arunagiri sings 3 songs on thanjai. he mentions meru in 2 one of the last lines is 'thanjai managar rajagopurathamarntha perumaalE" so sankar seems right to infer that arunagiri may have sung about the gopuram alone. and next comes the …

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THE BIG TEMPLE IN POST RAJARAJA TIMES
this article says skanda temple was post 16th century. our possible dating of arunagirinathar is 100 years before that idiyaappa sikkalaa irukkum pola? venketesh

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THE BIG TEMPLE IN POST RAJARAJA TIMES
could he have sung only about the murugan shrine in the rear. and though he mentions meru, its in reference to valli i guess and dating arunagirinathar would put him in 15th century one possible question that could be raised is dating th murugan tem…

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THE BIG TEMPLE IN POST RAJARAJA TIMES
Hi so the murugan shrine was much later. and the name of the temple had reverted to thanjai from the rajarajeshwaram as in thirupugal venketesh

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Basic Doubt - RRC Pallippadai and Rjc Cremation?
the madras visit of sivaji >

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Basic Doubt - RRC Pallippadai and Rjc Cremation?
Hi plunder was not a bad word those days. it was considered a right of the winner. the kings had no second thought about it. even in temple edicts they proclaimed that the spoils of war were given to temples. while on shivaji, there is a widespread…

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Thanjavur Thirupugal
Dear VJ, Sashwath and others, i think this group can really contribute if we did a combined analysis of post RRc tanjore its a huge historical fill in the gaps. 1. structural changes in temple complex post RRC 2. mentions of the temple in edicts o…

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Thanjavur Thirupugal
Great does he mention it as rajarajeshwaram? did the cholas build the muruga temple might give us interesting answers venketesh

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
But we come back to the situation with Sir CP – Quoting Outlook An equally threatening problem was posed by the continuing defiance of the recalcitrant princes. Though relatively smaller, the coastal state of Travancore became more vociferous than o…

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
Hi we are not justifying or otherwise the 2 episodes you are mentioning are very interesting similarly scriptures seemed to have been quoted in 1908 or so when the chambers were sought to be opened. but there were live cobras within the chamber and …

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
Hi i think the amalgamation was unexpected. cp must have shored up their hopes but even then much of the nizams treasure was nationalised. the same thing would have happenned to this too. even now the royals are very care ful( and bless them for it…

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
why should there be an issue at all we are spreading information i too was blank about the recent travancore issue till this episode. this has enabled me to learn so much interesting facts about travancore history venketesh

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
ungalukkellam sollamalaa? no way. i am as stuck as ever in those two books. but luckily am working hard on an english book called 'DAMNED' on madurai naiks venketesh

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
Hi all there are some events which we need to see to complete the picture the following is from author Emily Gilchrist Hatch, who was in Trivandrum in 1933, in her book, Travancore: A guide book for the visitor (Oxford University Press, 1933) The…

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
> the assasination attempt on c.p > > cp walked out of a kutchery and was attacked after lights were switched off > whose cutchery was that? SEMMANGUDI SRINIVASA IYER

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
the assasination attempt on c.p cp walked out of a kutchery and was attacked after lights were switched off whose cutchery was that? venketesh

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
so what if we are discussing 2 issues? as long as both of them are historical when the interview of marthanda varma was discussed he talks about being a member of the indian army as well people interested in history have a right to know the history…

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TREASURE FOUND AT PADMANABHASWAMY KOVIL , TRIVANDRUM
But we come back to the situation with Sir CP Quoting Outlook An equally threatening problem was posed by the continuing defiance of the recalcitrant princes. Though relatively smaller, the coastal state of Travancore became more vociferous than o…

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