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In the period of Rajendra Chozhan
Sri Ramanuja Acharya (lived upto 1137 AD) so great a man in the company of the cholas. well the disciple and the guru had a change of dress ramanuja usually wore ochre and the disciple white. so on one particular day in the year in all temples …

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Trip to South East Asia
closer home , a trip to srilanka should also be considered. much of the medeival architecture has been built in chola era or after it. anurathapura, sigiriya are all good places to see for a history student.

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Trip to South East Asia
Buddhism has the capacity to amalgamate itself with other religions for example the holiest shrine for karthikeya worship in sri lanka- KATIRKAMAM- is run by a buddhist trust. a budhist amatharu(matha guru) blesses people coming there.

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Oorin paeyarkal
Dear Nandakumar kadambur remains kadambur kodikarai remains kodikarai tanjore remains the same as does kanchipuram. place names in lanka are those with most changes.

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Trip to South East Asia
dear all so if bali is going to be ruled out can we talk about myanmar and cambodia ???? myanmar had a lot of cultural contacts with india and sri lanka. they could not have left out the cholas definitely. soodaamani viharam in nagai must have attr…

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Trip to South East Asia
> I have been to Bankok and kind of know what to see etc. Nothing much > other than few good buddha temples - but there is a place 100 KM > from bangkok called Ayudhayya where ruins of ancient empire are > preserved - good place to see. …

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Trip to South East Asia
oriyan influences dear Arun now that you mention it oriyan influences we can trace in a lot of places. mainly lanka. sinhalese use many words akin to oriya. i guess when their land was shattered after the kalinga war they scattered like the lost …

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Trip to South East Asia
Dear kamal what does a return ticket cost to thailand??? that should be the most expensive part of the trip. I dont think the total cost would as a norm exceed twice the fare. (??????)and ofcourse one may need shopping money. for everybody else,ther…

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Article in Varalaaru.com
> In the past few days there is a strong debate going on that Kalvettu > are the ultimate source of facts. We all are debating on > the inscriptional evidences of various things. > > If we take a stand that inscriptions are FACTS, th…

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
pon vimanam existing even today in burma The Shwedagon Paya is a 98 meter gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. The Paya is west of the Royal Lake on Singuttara Hill. The Shwedagon Paya is the most sacred Buddhist site for the Burmese with seve…

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erich von daniken
Dear Sir, to a certain extent yes they do talk about defying gravity. and no, I am not sceptical about it. but a building like a pyramid. egyptians maintained the design for a 1000 years almost. hundreds of thousands worked ( as per archaeological…

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Article in Varalaaru.com
the castes of kings i remember very well in the history of the rudra dynasty of warrangal. to start with they were lowly foot soldiers ( very much down in the social caste set up) under the chalukya(??) dynasty once they rebelled for some petty r…

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erich von daniken
Dear Arun saw that documentary before the onset of the set top box regime in chennai. some facts might have been wrong in the documentary. but it was a wonderful effort. and some of the visuals of the upper level sculptures most of us would never ha…

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Article in Varalaaru.com :: Lighter
> > kamala kannoda patha manjala than theriyum. hai sathish you meant "kaamaalai kan" kamala vellaam ethukku ithula izhukkiriingkannu ninaichEn. venketesh enakku kamala ella. if > others have, thats there problem. If I co…

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DOCUMENTATION
> When I started learning more on South Indian History, I was feeling > sad that after Sastry's Colas, no concise work has come up so far. dear sps very much true. after sastry's period we have not come up with any earth shaking fi…

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Hi Raghav
-Hai I have heard and read of these things too and for more reasons than one the best person to clarify is swetha. swetha madam swetha madam where are you???????? venketesh

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Hi Raghav
Dear Raghav that is precisely what we have been debating for the last few days and going to tanjore big temple with such a knowledgeble group was what spurred on the debate, quite a few in the group were stunned by the size and grandeur of the…

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
karuvur thevar need not have been immortal or have a long innings what is the time difference between the consecrations of big temple and gkc? 25 years. must even be slightly lesser.but 25 years is a long time in those days. my postulate is that …

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
Dear Sps both are very important temples in saivam TIVUEEZHI MIZHALAI where god gave a daily dole of a gold coin to appar and sambanthar Tiruvarur the chola's second favorite temple after chidambaram. 3 devara sthalams in one town. two …

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
in burma still people as a prayer take paper thin foils of gold( gold beaten between leather folds)and stick it on to the buddhist temple.

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
dear all i just read the urai for karuvur thevars raja rajeshwaram temple thiruvisapa he describes the town in its glory. the man was impressed with the cloud high fort walls of thanjai he talks about armed men on the walls he talks about noisy roa…

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
perfectly possible uma actually the auvaiyar theory is that. there were 2 or more auvaiyars which we imagine as one( palam nii appa style ) but the notable thing about karuvurar is that he has sung about atleast 4 temples about which no major…

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
just imagine a religious man like karuvurar who due to his thava valimai or better living habits, lives for a long time- say during the reign of 2 or 3 kings- especially when history is happening, then he gets into the legend as an immortal( sidhar …

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
dear Kamal varai valam kavarnthili VAIGAI porunthirai marungkongu aavana viithi poovanang koil kondaye

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
dear kamal the thala varalaaru of thirupoovanam on madurai- ramnad road says positively that karuvur thevar sang about this temple only thiru bhuvanam is not a thevara thalam but poovanam is a paandi 14 sthalam poovanam is sung by all three and al…

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
did karuvur thevar sing about thirubhuvanam or thiru poovanam( pandi 14)? i'll check up and let you know

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I need some clarification
Hai Raghav comparing kings based on the territories they conquered is not fair they are from different eras, cultures and technology. plain generals like mcarthur in WW2 conquered more area than could have even been dreamt of by medeival kings. for …

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
dear sps in the last stanza of raja rajeshwaram thiruvisaippa karuvur thevar says siva patham ennum PON NEDUNG KUNDRUDAI YORE' one more lead for your theory. but frankly i was shocked when some people who studied chola history for a longer …

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PSVP - suggestions
we should add in the web site/ cd thirumurai ( thiruvisaipa)songs about raja rajeshwaram by karuvur thevar sung by a seasoned othuvar. the song goes pannengkaalam pani seythu palaiyOr thaam palar embalithhtu irukka...... innadam payilum inji suul …

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PON VIMANAM :: THANJAI BIG TEMPLE !
when pilgrims go around mount kailash they are asked to see the hill at sunrise. the shape of kailash in that angle is like a cross section of chidambaram por sabhai. they both look exactly similar. must have given the idea to somebody for shape and…

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