abhivencat

Emperor Karikal Cholan period & Uraiyur Meettan
hai arun -Megasthenes (c. 350 BC-290 BC) was a Greek traveller and geographer. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador sent by Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus (Chandragupta Maurya) of India. His observations were recor…

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SUNDAY MEETING
shankaran most of our makkal are incommunicado on the weekends. just fix a time and venue and let us know. gandhi statue 4. pm. if it rains lets see.( give your mobile so that they can find out the changes) makkale thirai kadalena thirandu variir.

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Emperor Karikal Cholan period & Uraiyur Meettan
hai muruganandam one simple straight forward question do we know what was happening in tamil land during buddhas period isnt megasthenes record the only one of that time what does he say?

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Emperor Karikal Cholan period & Uraiyur Meettan
I didnt read the article. but many claim adi sankara was living 2500 years back can some one tell me what the conditions were in say 1000bc to the commencement of the christian era- 1 ad? who was ruling and what was happening in general?

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Countdown Starts - 7 Days to Go
Dear Vijay I have sent in one article( to your e-mail) to be uploaded under myths and legends

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Homepage Ready in http://staging.thebigtemple.com
-Dear sri have you heard of noah's ark the climate in chennai was just 38 days short we lived for 2 days on bread and weak tea and of course mobiles. everything else was out. right now, one by one everything is getting restored. could imagine…

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who is that saint - Thiruvisaippa
pungkuzhali rasikar manra thalaivaa enna aale kaanOm ?? kodikarai poyirunthiyaa? lighthouse elaam nalla eriyuthaa? thiruvisaipa is the combined work of many authors. karuvur thevar is one.senthanar and others too are authors. sample songs can be…

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who is that saint - Thiruvisaippa
Hai swetha for the numerous words the gentleman has invented you shouldnt call it copyright. its a patent for an invention. can you do a simple translation of a few stanzas of thiruvisaipa in aid of us( something we dont have to rush to arun kri…

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who is that saint?
dear vidya I shall send you the full text on your e mail. so you can find more words for arun to decipher venketesh

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who is that saint?
Hai vidya did I not mention it was thuuya english perhaps victorian I will try to translate it and send it to you. athnaal thaan full poem anuppavillai. mandai kaanchudum. venketesh

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who is that saint?
here I quote one stanza of thiruvisaipa and its translation swetha sent this to me long back,( the translation is in thuuya english and the original in thuuya tamil- bear with me chaTaikezu makuTam thaNNilA viriya veNNilA viritharu tharaLak kuTai…

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who is that saint?
-Here we go again one who disputes karuvurars presence during rrc and rjcs times has not read thiruvisaipa where he describes tanjore in its heydays( which was for a very short time) either karuvurar had a wonderful sense of imagination or he must…

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(no subject)
Dear all now that sri mentioned the rain.......... did you notice all the names we read about in ps are making headlines daily( for wrong reasons) they are talking about viranam, arasalar, vadavar, kudamurutti in every bulletin. as of now the dan…

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who is that saint?
dear Ramki does everyone need a spirutual guru? did rajarajan for his warrior attitude need one.? he was not extra religious than his family or times warrant. definitely not- that he spent all his life building temples. for every temple he built h…

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Buddha

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PONNIYIN SELVARGAL
-I took a morning train to covai on monday. the palar and cauvery were in a spate. palar after 8 years of dry river bed, was twice the normal width. I saw the fury of nature in those two rivers trains were asked to inch the way across the bridges.…

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Sholapuram temple near Sivagangai+ book for Tamil carnatic songs
Dear Chandra I too was stuck by co incidence of sola puram and arulmozhi nathar. the solapuram temple I think belongs to the sivagangai samsthanam and is administered by them. cant blame the hr& ce for this. I would like to define temple mana…

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Unrelated conversation
-Dear Mr. Eshwaran with due respect I'd like to voice my opinion too > I noticed only handful of persons indulge in such " > Adra sakkai" correspondences. the very handful have contributed some of the best of threads if y…

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: RRC Portrait
whether we like it or not, buddha statues outnumber rrc statues thro out the world. there are innumerable sites for buddhist places of worship on the net. most of them give importance to the wheel on his palm. the wheel is the buddhas way of teachi…

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MADEVADIGAL & BUDDHA
> With permission / over coming resistance in building Hindu temples in > sri Lanka and far East, they might have considered Budha Vihars in > Srilanka ! > the 5 shiva temples in srilanka are very very old. much before raja rajas ti…

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GNB
Dear All I am a novice in carnatic music but i have heard that thygaraja's grandfather (maternal) was a great composer himself.worked in serfoji's palace. and he laid the foundation for a wonderful creative and artistic climate at tanjor…

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GNB
dear all telugus have played a great role in temil culture. when the original agmark tamil culture was wiped out with the demise of the muvendar and the installation of the madurai sultanate a telugu invasion re installed hinduism in this part of …

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Atlast we found the statue of Great Rajaraja I
Hai sathish ippothaan unga ponnu ungkalai group pakkam vittaalaa??? buddha statues are known to have chakra designs or fingers rolled up like a wheel. it has a lot of significance for them. and one more thing buddha is supposed to have lotus desig…

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Atlast we found the statue of Great Rajaraja I
the more I think of it the more puzzled i am it was such an anti climax after the build up its so obviously a buddhist statue. how could seasoned historians like kamal make a mistake was my first impression. then I thought perhaps it was a joke. an…

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Atlast we found the statue of Great Rajaraja I
-Buddha was the enlightened one and nature gave him many marks called lakshanas. The term lakshanas refers to an auspicious sign or sacred mark. These are specific physical characteristics and marks or signs on the body. Lakshana are pariticular…

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Atlast we found the statue of Great Rajaraja I
Dear all except for kunthavai telling about it , is there a mention in ponniyin selvan about the sank sakkaram and its significance???? and I forget. what does kunthavai actually tell about that.

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unesco :: heritage sites
Dear Sri I think unesco lifted rrc's name when they changed the topic from brigadeeshwarar temple to living chola temples. then they would have to mention 3 kings and that would complicate matters. why they changed the topic is another matte…

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Thanjavur Dolls
Hi all the problem here is that kalki was so realistic we all end up getting mixed up with reality and the novel we neither have info and I seriously doubt that in reality kundavai would have been so dominant. or vanathi so passive. we were still …

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Ancient Pandyas
dear sps I have heard of first sangam in a continent called lemuria( gondwona ) it went into the sea the same time as the fabled atlantis. that must have been the time the artic glaciers melted during a global warming. I doubt if the lemuria stor…

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Kallanai - Kalingathu Parani
-kallanai a natural dam? no way I quote what i have read it is thought to date back to the 1st or 2nd century. It is considered the oldest water-diversion structure in the world still in use. an older dam in egypt recently covered in discovery c…

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