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pyramids and the bigtemple
dear all Cholula was an important city of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, It was later the second largest city of the Aztec empire. The original Nahuatl name was """""cholöllan"…

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pyramids and the bigtemple
dear all another interesting fact I picked up from wikipedia According to the Guinness Book of Records, a mexican pyramid is the largest pyramid as well as the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world, with a total volume estima…

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foreigner's statue
dear sps this is what they call nair pudicha puli vaal. the trignometric survey of india has captured my total interest and am following it. could you please ask Mr. Kudavoil if there is any reference to the big temple in the year 1808. any chang…

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another use for big temple?
Hi all found more matter on the trignmetric survey and the big temple from an article in frontline a mention of the big temple in 1808 TWO HUNDRED years ago, on April 10, 1802, the British surveyor Col. William Lambton began an ambitious, audacio…

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thebigtemple.com
Dear sps some suggestions Arvind valliappan too should be added to the technical side. almost all of us can contribute details to be included in the site. (please post everything in folder website- big temple website). final choice of materiel …

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Chola Administration in the new website
-we should also add a chapter called "the rivals" about other dynasties at the time who were fighting with the cholas

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website content
Dear all Swetha and amar have provided a framework for the website design. but for purpose of matter collection we need to identify broad topics faq, travel, legends, chola history and achievements inscriptions, rajaraja the man, sculpture, archi…

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THIRUMURAI STHALAMS / DIVYADESAMS IN ATMIL NADU
Excellent now get your pass port ready 2 in lanka and one in tibet. and a few in north india. you will be one of the first 100 to have seen all the abodes of shiva vaalththukkal. kailash regarding kailash the abode of shiva many people have been …

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mail id for website
Hi Kamal thats a good idea. go ahead and fix up a g mail account ( under same name if possible.) must be easy to remember with the same name as the site. and inform the group.

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Just wondering about my village name Vs Chola dynasty
hai nandha from what we have discussed earlier in the group uthama sozan( earlier mathuranthakan) and his mom sembiyan mathevi have spent years in the area doing thiruppanis. could have something to do with that. solavaram, solavanthan,solapuram a…

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Focus Vanathy
Dear Natarajan, not that i dont like pungkuzhali. i adore her charecter ever since I read ps first. she is miles beyond vanathi or kunthavai in selflessness. but nothing wrong in analysing the charecter. some of these points were raised on the retu…

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The Big Temple Website
more topics for first time visitors to tanjore how to get there air, rail and road what else to see there in the vicinity

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The Big Temple Website
dear sps can we make the site bilingual for a better reach. articles on the following topics would be informative to the public capitals of the cholas uraiyur, puhar( and how they were destroyed) thanjachan the asura who ruled over tanjai(legend)…

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Focus Vanathy
kunthavai harassed her 10 years back ak jilted her years ago. why should nanthini seek revenge now.??? ( anyway ak would have grovelled at her feet whenever she gave him an opportunity to. he himself says so.that would have been the best revenge o…

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Focus Vanathy
Dear Natarajan nobody gets a better introduction than pungkuzhali in ps. when she puts vanthiyathevan in a cave for a night she tells him a cheetah resided in the cave earlier. and when he asks her pointing to the jaw bone of a shark lying nearby …

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Focus Vanathy
Dhiwaker this is too much poongkuzhali had her share of problems but she was no worse than the other women of ps but dont you blame Mr. krishnamurthy for his creation of the charecter. just imagine the democratic outlook of kalki a commoner couple o…

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The Big Temple Website
there are very many contreversies surrounding the temple and its creator. we who visited the temple in the yaaththirai got a taste of it. which side are we going to take or are we mentioning both sides of the net( good for a balanced website) I…

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The Big Temple Website
it would be great if we could add the thiruvisaipa of karuvurar on the big temple in an audio file it should be sung by a seasoned othuvar.

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The Big Temple Website
dear amar should we not include "tanjore thro the ages" as a chapter mythology, mutharayars, cholas , naiks, marataas today. a paragraph each

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Aippasi Sadhayam ::
talking about paper articles there is a large article in hindu metro plus about a lady archeologist of asi who discovered a pandya port . check it out venketesh

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Focus Vanathy
pungkuzhali - harmless? a girl who killed a cheetah with the backbone of a shark? Natarajan, I agree that pungkuzhali is a lovable charecter. ( I have only her picture displayed on my writing board). but she had some psychologial problems( not madne…

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Focus Vanathy
dear all the women of ps all had their own ambitions manimekalai wanted to marry vanthiyathevan (a simple wish- he was a nobody actually) kunthavai wanted a scion of sundara solar family on the throne. nanthini wanted to set up an independent pand…

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Big temple building-an interesting blog
Hai Amar not much progress on the website front. still debating on book/website/ cd possibility. I personally feel there is scope for all three. why dont you make a start and give us a framework to act on. we could all start giving you inputs. …

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enna nadakkudhu :: lighter
saathu mirandaal kaadu kollaathu athuvum suganya( madam) vidara saabamellaam palikkuthu doi suganya madam suganya madam naanga keli seythathellaam manathilirunthu alichudungo cha Enda antha panchavan mAthevi palli padaikku pOnOm? eppo bangalore po…

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Injustice to pallavas
> mahendravarma torturing appar is found only in shavite puranas and > not an ounce of evidence for this is found in any kalvettus or > records.If such an incident happened why dint a single kalvettu > record this? sampath we have had…

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Injustice to pallavas
dear Sampath Dear Sampath Miracles are god's visiting cards. I dont think he has run out of them after krishna avataar. perhaps in our fast moving world we fail to observe them. too often they are termed as just co incidences we discussed that …

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Focus Vanathy
orumaasam dhiwaker rwanda poitaaru inga vaanathiya " vaanaththa pola uyarthiteenga" vanthu pathil koduppaar. actually the yanai pagan scene comes in the flashback.somebody must have told kalki half way that vanathy charecter was not …

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Injustice to pallavas
dear all kalki actually gave more credit to the pallavas than they deserved on the religious front. for most of his life mamalla's father the pallava king was a bigot and a tyrant. tortured hindus mercilessly. during the last days he became a …

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INDIAN HISTORY :: SOUTH INDIAN - IN PARTICULAR
dear sankaran when bahadur shah was declared emperor the marathas had come to the very gates of delhi the mughal empire was but a few villages the scindias of gwalior were all powerful one should read khuswant sings "delhi" he describ…

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another rajarajeshwaram
while we are analysing how kalki chose the names for his fictional charecters pongkuzhai- amman's name from a neighbourhood temple amutha- an anagram of uthama kanthamaran sambuvarayan- a real king of name kanthasuryan sambuvarayan we should a…

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