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Dating of the Cholas
> > It seems Venkatesh is so sure that 90% of rajaraja's life is > not > documented. May i know your effort on what/where all you > have > searched or referred for answers to your questions before > coming to > su…

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Varalaaru reply to Madan's reply.
pioneering work has been > done believe we have > just scrapped the surface - > ....and miles to go before we sleep. That I think is the correct attitude that opens your mind to further learning two quotes of newton( whose wonde…

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Varalaaru reply to Madan's reply.
Hi my answer to vijay was typed before yours appeared on the screen. I beleive accepting that we know little will pave the way for learning or searching for more. imagining that we know lots and lots about RRc will do us no good in searching fo…

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Varalaaru reply to Madan's reply.
Hi Vijay madan is not the originator of these doubts.doubts on the cholas exist much before. I personally have a copy of nilakanta sastri's colas. none of the books you have mentioned have details on rrc's death, his activities during…

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Varalaaru reply to Madan's reply.
Hi Vijay so you think there is concrete evidence to write one full book on raja raja cholan? if there are a 100 questions a biography should answer concretely. 90 of them will remain unanswered in the case of RRC.

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Dating of the Cholas

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How much was one chola kasu
ANACONDA There are two possible origins for the word 'anaconda,' both of which are traced to the languages of Sri Lanka: It is perhaps an alteration of the Sinhalese word 'henakanday', meaning 'thunder snake', or a…

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How much was one chola kasu

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Hero of the Story?
hi if you have seen the movie kalangarai vilakkam ( mgr and saroja devi in "pon ezhil poothathu puthu vaanil" song) or parthiban kanavu( gemini and vyjyanthimala) and then read kalki's books you tend to imagine the charecters the …

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Dating of the Cholas
Thiruvalangadu copperplates Professor E. Hultzsch began collecting South Indian inscriptions systematically from the latter part of 1886 when he was appointed Epigraphist to the Government of Madras. The earliest of the extant copperplate inscr…

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Dating of the Cholas
Hi sheelu to proceed on this discussion I think some of our group seniors have to tell us about, nilakanta sastri ( surprised there is no page on him in wikipedia)and also finding of the thiruvalangadu plates. I would be interested in what find…

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Dating of the Cholas
- > How come the Turks skipped Cholanadu while they over ran Pandyanadu? > >there was no chola nadu. pandyas ruled upto north tamilnadu. infact one of their capitals was at samaya puram trichy For whatever reason the Turks it seems di…

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Dating of the Cholas
Hi its not so bad there are dates for many important events. but lacunae exist and speculation is prevalent. for example in 1850s the big temple was thought to have built by karikalan. the first half of the 20th century was a golden period for…

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Dating of the Cholas
> > 2) Did some foreign traveller visit Tamil Nadu during that period and > made a record of that in foreign sources ? > > Hi Pandyan first I should appreciate the thorough scientific approach you have towards history. at the fac…

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Arul Mozhiyin Patta Mahishi yaar??
> > > > > > JUST THINKING ALOUD ! > > > > > > > Hi SPS > > vanthiyathevan was a rastrakuta, so was the chief queen of rrc. > > > > could they have been brother and sister?????? > > …

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REPOST: An excellent interview about kalki
Hi most of the interviews about kalki have a one sided picture. a partial picture portrait emerges in sunda's book ponniyin puthalvar. it is very obvious that sunda himself is very restrained on kalki's negative traits. kalki was quite i…

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Arul Mozhiyin Patta Mahishi yaar??
> > JUST THINKING ALOUD ! > Hi SPS thats really thinking aloud. rrc succeeded uthama because he was child less. nice answer to a major question another loud thought' vanthiyathevan was a rastrakuta, so was the chief queen of rrc…

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RELIGION AND POLITICS - Ancient Times
Hi the progress of getting new details in tamil history is so slow that the system will breed only amatuer historians. no one will have enough work to do it full time. observe all the active historians we know.within the group and outside. dr. k…

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Nandhini - Fictional or not?
Hi sathish kalki's third term in jail lasted less than 4 months. jan 21 to april 12th or so in 1941. it was spent much in battling his asthma( rajaji lent him his thermos flask). there was no major writing in kalki's life then except for…

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Nandhini - Fictional or not?
> All the rest is Kalki's prowess. Kalki got the inspiration to write > Parthibara Kanavu and Sivakamiyin Sabadam on the seashore of > Mahabalipuram, possibly he drew up the plot for > both ss and pk together but worked on them…

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Hero of the Story?
Hi Kalki had the habit of pulling in real charecters who lived in the time of his storyline. in ss paranjothi, thirunavukarasar, the chola princess who later becomes the pandya queen, the pandyan nedumaran( pallavan's brother in law), his …

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Ganga Negarra - Sitiawan malaysia - an interesting folklore - but is it true
> > The battle that ensured took place on this sandy tract. The Chola > forces were better armed than that of Ganga Neggara. Besides having > cannons, the Chola force was battle hardened- having continually > fought battles in Ind…

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Tamils and science... a query
Hi I still feel tamils had an access to appropriate technologies suited to that time for the bulk of the population. nothing flaboyant or earth shattering. there seems to have been no organised research and the conveyance of information from on…

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Tamils and science... a query
Hi as sri says science could be the basis for livelehood and why should a practioner make it open for the world to see. even european scientists were secretive for various reasons. why should davincini write in code.? and even newton acknowledge…

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Tamils and science... a query
-Hi Arun any society at any point of time cannot survive without appropriate technology for those times. of course we had flashes in the pan in every society like da vinci who went much further. in other societies research was not organised per…

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Masilamani Nathar Temple a write up.
-Hi chandra fantastic recreation of your trip 3 things. it is maravarman sundara pandya. not maya varman/ mayavaram either pandya kings have the titles jada varman maravarman etc. the fort in tranquebar was built by danish not dutch there are s…

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Film: Periyar
Hi The question here is not whether "Ravanaa" was "Bhramin" or > "non-Bhramin". it is relevant because periyar insulted religious idols of hinduism. whereas accepting other religions like christianity and islam. th…

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Film: Periyar
Hi the point is its a free world. people must have a right to build their own temples, pray in the way they want for whatever they deem fit. if people are mostly going to beg(or demand) some thing from GOD its their problem. if more enlighened …

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Film: Periyar
-Hi Periyar was indeed a great thinker but some intepretations of his were wrong. all his life he glorified ravana as a non bramhin and rama as an invading aryan. but the epic is very clear about it. ravana was a bramhin and rama was a kshatri…

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Tamils and science... a query
Ni I guess science in india was on par with the world at every point of time.especially in architecture and astronomy. it was only with the industrial revolution that they forged ahead of us. also individual achievements were well recorded in the …

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