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Respect and Admiration :: AK
Hi one episode where you actually like aathithan is the aftermath of the hunting trip where he, vanthiyathevan, nanthini and manimekalai get marooned on an island.( are there really islands on the veeraanam lake?) but you despise him more than t…

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Respect and Admiration
hi if aditha karikalan praised another king it must be in a fit of schizophernia. he had the utmost contempt for other kings and established rules of war. he had a split personality. I am sure kalki based his charecter on somebody he knew in r…

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PS in English
Hi at first they didnt expect it to sell I guess. this book was funded by a private trust I think the M.R. arunachalam trust run by the murugappa group. But then one shouldnt read the tamil original and this. you'll get wild

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alexander and the pandyans
akanda thamizhagam is what most of the great kings visualised. one united front against a future invader. kalki explains it thro the words of the pallava king in parthiban kanavu. but this strategy failed miserably in 1312. one united tamil king…

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Civilizations - WAR & LOGISTICS
"Meat On Hoof" system. the most effcient such system was the mongol. they used to travel with three times as many horses as men. they used to slice open a vein of neck of the animal, and drink its blood. also horses milk. must have e…

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Civilizations!
-I am not sure here but in other areas patrol troops used go ahead of the army and bury large cisterns of water. in a wet area like ours I am sure rivers would have been check dammed wells dug or ponds deepenned. well when you come to that chapt…

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Civilizations!

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Civilizations!
-the egyptians used wooden rollers but could not go on to the next logical step of fitting the rollers on to their sleds. since they had ample slaves they didnt really bother I guess. brute force was what they depended on to move the 10 ton block…

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Civilizations!
Hi while some people claim civilisations to be 10 000 years and older we should pause to examine. -The driving force of mankind is the wheel. its very difficult to beleive advanced civilisations could have lived without the usage of the whee…

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Civilizations!
Hi very few if any civilsation could be older than 10000 years because that was when the last glaciation period of the last ice age was over. ( inter glacial periods last 12000 years only) and so if you have any important work to finish, try to h…

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Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers :: SEVEN PAGODAS
tamilnadu 1st century ad tamilnadu 11th century ad tamilnadu 14th century tamilnadu 18th century if we compare these we will know how this region has evolved in 1st century many chieftans, many clans, highly localised 11th century -one central p…

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Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers :: SEVEN PAGODAS
While there > are many civilisations which have not survived the test of time and have > gone to ground. Why does a particular civilisation survive? It is because > the people of that group tend to be better thinkers and have > innovat…

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Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers :: SEVEN PAGODAS
Hi another sceptic for your lists there is a false feeling that the older your civilisation is the greater you are. which has been disproved by the new countries that were formed in the last few centuries. lemuria is one such myth. when the c…

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Dinosaur@Jalakanteshwara.vellore.in
Hi just the creativity. mankind and dinosaurs never co- existed . so even the flint stones cartoon is a myth. but creativity can go a great distance. there is a statue of a giraffee in khajraho when the first girafee to enter india must have…

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Hi
Hi when we look at the advertisements in the old books so many of those products are not there. a cosmetic product called 'snow' has literally vanished. I think now it must have manifested as cold cream.

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
Hi Diwakar Thanks for the details so Kopperunjinkan, was a descendant of one of the nayanmars. a very interesting personality indeed . multi faceted. How like two sides of the scales one dynasty goes down and another comes up?

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Arulmozhi Varman (Unique aspects of PS)
.....And when you talk of characters, the ones who I, and for that matter many among you, would hate the most are in this order: vaithiyar magan pinakapani, pallava parthipendran and even kandamaran. kandamaaranai pidikkaathaa??? I am very sad …

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Kalki Vs Sandilyan
Hi all just finished zamindar magan, a short story by kalki it describes graphically the bombing of rangoon by the japenese during world war 2 and its evacuation. in rangoon all prisons are opened, all lunatic asuylums are opened and even in th…

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Arulmozhi Varman (Unique aspects of PS)
kalki and maniam were having a serious problem portraying amv. face has to show compassion but body must have been like a wrestler or a ajaanabahu a very odd combination venketesh

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foodstuffs of the past
- Hi Deepa you have encountered the first mistake due to translation cholam( jowar, sorghum species) is different from makka cholam(maize) maize a native of south america spread with the spanish. on the other hand cholam a native of africa and …

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SHIPBUILDING FROM ANCIENT INDIA
-sandaiyilum saappaadaaa??? but a thought provoking question. must have been a mass produced ruel with energy giving carbohydrates. hot and steaming in a thonnai each. but talking about food o f the pas even during peace time what we take for g…

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Vanakkam.....
Hi babu the story of udayar starts somewhere 20 years(?) from where ponniyin selvan stops.( 3 years for sundara, 14 for uthama , and some for rrc) vikramans nandhi puraththu nayagi is a novel in the period after PS.

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
-Hi Diwakar could you enlighten us on kadavas sendanmangalam incident Kopperunginkan seems to be the beginning of the end for the cholas. read somewhere that Kopperunginkan descended from the sambuvarayar clan and he was related by marriage to …

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Kalki's Impact
> > IMO many tamil writers are not writing for a common reader like me. There are thousands of books that are well acclaimed, but the question is how of them actually reached the general public. Hi sivaram, its not only the tamil writer…

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Kalki's Impact
Hi many have said this before in this group. kalki redefines your approach to modern tamil literature. its unfortunate ( or fortunate may be) if you happen to read kalki first.you will never fully appreciate the efforts of any other tamil autho…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
And in-fighting started between main chieftians - example Kopperunginkan who built THILLAI Gopurams. > this charecter seems to be a fascinating one, he was pious built the south gopuram of chidambaram. was a feudatory of the chola king and…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
Hi the reign of the last cholas. correct the figures if they are wrong. Kulothunga Chola I 1070-1120 Rajendra Chola III 1246-1279 so kulothunga onwards the cholas have ruled for 200 years before them from vijayalaya( 848) to athirajenthra (10…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
> And cleverly he has not taken RRC or post RRC period. Imperial Chozhas > commences from RRC only. > Hi this is an opportune moment to discuss the down trend of the cholas. if there is a peak( let it las a century) it means there is a …

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
Hi you have a very valid point there. parthiban kanavu especially the initial sequences of parthiban dreaming of a great chola land ( which just was not possible in his life time and pallavan giving an explantion of why he needed to annex smalle…

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Pitfalls vs Glorification
-Hi okay agreed. but what sense of nationalism could such a book have given in times of an independence struggle? ( or for the matter in a freshly independent country) did it not enforce what the british were telling us all along. that india wa…

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