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Converts to Islam
a madurai sultanate was in place. when delhi was weakened the governor declared himself independent a bad time for that area. when all the hindu kings of tamil nadu got together to throw them out the pandyas backed out poor vil bhallala of hoysa…

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Budha or Mahavira
Hi sathish couldnt make it. but went to chettipunyam instead. but a statue in samanar malai is the exact ditto of it. I am posting both the photos on the photos section check it out

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Saga of Sikandhaa Malai - Thiruparamkundram
some more points to add > But the war went against Sundara Pandya. Either him > or his nephew, who was another Sundara Pandya went north. > At that time, Sultan Alauddin Khilji of Delhi Sultanate > had sent his supreme commander Mal…

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Rare Tamil inscription in China..
Hi all the chinese kalvettu is dated 1281- the peak of the pandyas when marco polo visited madurai and also cathay( china) i think the king there was kublai khan at that time. chinese always had a close trade link with the south. seen their trac…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
a trivia about thiruparamkundram hindus call param kundram "kanthar malai" muslims call it " sikanthar malai" there is a dargah atop the hill close to the kasi vishwanathar temple .

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
dear Gokul info on umai aandavar kugai koil on the southern part of paramkundram hill pandya ,possibly 8th century AD one excavated cave mandapam and one room on the west in the room there is a pudaippu sirpam of arthanaarishwarar on the south fa…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Hi Gokul many interesting things are coming up about param kundram its also called kOththittai( thittai- medu) . sundarar in his ten songs calls it by this name. in the last song calls it param kundru but if you are talking about the temple being …

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Dear Gokul true many of the temples of today are not in the actual locations they were in my favourite- kapali temple in mylapore is one. if we can find evidence that sambanthar or sundarar mentioned muruga in paramkundram( thats the same temple…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
this is some info I got on param kundram i dont know exacty when kalithogai or aganaanuuru was written was written but in it onnaarthaan kadanthu muravuniir adavu maakondra venvElaan kundrinmel aganaanuuru says suurmarungarutha sutarilai neduvE…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
what? the home town of nakkirar is not a murugan temple? thats what I call the roots of a tue contreversy where muruga reportedly married deivanai the first of his 6 homes now has nothing to do with him? anyway sambanthar and sundarar sang about…

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http://www.jaintruth.com
contreversial yes but I was stuck by two similarities mahabalipuram shore temple and the other one (chandragiri?) also two or three thithankara statues bear striking resemblences to the ones found by asi in chennai and what we didnt know before…

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Budha or Mahavira
in today's Hindu, in the letters to the editor column, one > gentleman (forgot the name) has written that those two are not Budha > statues but of Jaina thirthankars. He clearly mentions about the > features seen in Budha status wh…

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Budha or Mahavira
please visit this site. http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/306/jainism.htm the photo of 22nd Tirthankara Arishtanemi, who was said to be a cousin of Krishna has striking resemblences to three tier umbrella and girls waving fly wisks at him The J…

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Budha or Mahavira
Hi Sri I think I should photograph the thiithankara statue@ anna nagar and post it too. as far as I know thithankaras are persons different from mahavira. there were many of them with different physical aspects. and by law of averages jainism was…

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Budha or Mahavira
some more details on the letter writer S. Theodore Baskaran, a former civil servant, is Director of the Roja Muthiah Research Library. the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai, the private hoard of an unconventional collector of printed mate…

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Budha or Mahavira
the person who has raised the question is a respected journalist and writer theodore bhaskeran he writes on a variety of things I remember seeing an article of his on buddhist panels i thanjavur periya temple earlier too just 2 things budhar sila…

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yugach chuzharchi
even in dasaavathaaram rama meets parasuraama once and krishna and balarama are contemprories?

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Rajarajan :: Glorification
Hi a thousand years back was a cruel era. a soft king would have been relegated to the dustbin.kalki's level of softening rrc's charecter is a little too much. should be read with poetic licence in mind. especially saving the kuruvikkuud…

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Rajarajan - Thevaram
just because the thirumurais were locked up did not mean people did not know about them at all.locally thevaram was being sung too.and transmited by word of mouth. actually there were 274 paadal petra sthalams. then one entire thevaram was disco…

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Rajarajan - Thevaram
the name thiagarajar kudavoil says came in 15th century. so kalki naming punkuzhali's father as thiyaga vidangar is an error but just for the record. 7 temples of that area have thiagarajars. all vith different names ThiruvArUr - vIdhi viDa…

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satellite picture
lots of interesting things in pokharan. after the successful blast the code " buddha is smiling" was transmitted to indira gandhi. likewise the american scientist seeing the first ever nuclear blast recited a verse from bhagavad gita.

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satellite picture
the ever open eyes in the sky - thats what they call the satellites one unsubstantiated news is that a substantial portion of the first indian atom bomb were transported to pokharan on camel backs toavoid detection by americal spy satelites.any …

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satellite picture
hai suganya i was just wondering how a satellite pic of banglore and chennai would look just now. water water everywhere nor a drop to drink.

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History of Sivakami??
when you travel along the by pass of mahabalipuram on the ECR on the left you will see three unfinished pagodas. that propably gave kalki the idea of a sculptor whose unfinished job is due to the absence of inspiration( sivakami has been taken aw…

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Buddas in Big Temple
Dear Ram it was right to retort, I agree but isnt it time to have some retrospection too? what are we feeing angry for? because somebody said another expert was needed or because our experts were not mentioned. the big temple has a host of mysteri…

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SUNDAY MEETING
4-6 is pretty uncrowded time in the beach. lots of parking too.

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Emperor Karikal Cholan period & Uraiyur Meettan
-piranmalai( a paadal petra sthalam) is reputed to be the home town of pari. very close to Dr.Jaybees home town of singampunari. some fantastic fotos of that place in agathiyar group( I think) 2 things. pari is vanquished by the combined forces …

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SUNDAY MEETING
chennai beach

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SUNDAY MEETING
gandhi statue @ 4.pm on sunday 6-11-05 its a date

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Kumari Kandam
-Dear Jagathesh continental drifts did happen. it has caused some really puzzling occurences in the animal world. we have seals in inland seas 1000 kms from their cousins. but i thinkif man had been around he would have been in animal skins durin…

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