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Kadavul and Iraivan temples
> Dear Intellisurfer, > Lots of RKN fans out there, even me, far across the pond. > Most older American heavy readers have read him. ya and check the archieves . we have lots of personal info on him from maloo who is related to RKN venke…

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august ps meet :: for follow up ..
> We can organize a Pallava architecture specific trip on Aug 15. sangam temple and yazhi caves pallava quarry- pidari ratham insides of mahabs lunch at A2B drive down to alhambra- arab fort OR take a west turn and visit vallam caves if time…

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august ps meet :: for follow up .. 001
Hi the sub comitee for planing is meeting this weekend lets see about the timings. the original plan however was for the morning for outstation members need to travel in the night also remember we have a trip on the previous day.

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when was pattukottai fort constructed?
> > I too from pattukottai.May be he reffered to pudukottai.No fort in > > pattukottai. > > no fort inpudukottai too. two forts were in pudukottai state. kilanilai and thirumayam venketesh > > Regards, > > Saathmee…

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august ps meet :: for follow up .. 001
Hi NRI members satheesh and swaroopini are attending. vijay needs to set up some work in india for an excuse to visit. rahul from madurai, venkatram diwaker from vizag are also coming. vishwak senan sir has also confirmed wow its getting exciting.…

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august ps meet :: LIST OF WRITERS FROM OUR GROUP .. 01
Hi there could be an audio visual quiz ponniyin selvan/kalki quiz there could be an exhibition of historical novels from everybodies collection (we will return the books after the event) venketesh

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august ps meet
come on satheesh. we need 2 holidays in line for it. the purpose of announcing it so much ahead was for you guys to reschedule holidays. please try.

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august ps meet
Hi all this can be held over brunch on 2nd say first day we could have a nice informative trip. venketesh >

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Tamil Proverbs - Part 13
Hi exactly what muruganandam mentioned today. I think we already have a couple of fan clubs. what we need is a group on face book venketesh

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Historical facts
dear rama chandran > Dear Members of this group I wish you to wait till my thesis compleates. > > What ever I quote here has an evidences and supportive documents. > > So please tell me in advance for what are all you need evidenc…

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Historical facts
Hi VV at the time of ulugh khans invasion thiruvannamalai was hoysala. that was around 1325 subsequently after the invasion of madurai sultanate by the hoysala led hindu armies and its defeat thiruvnnamalai must have changed hands. venketesh

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Historical facts
--- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, rramachandran_1951@... wrote: > > Raja Narayana Sambuvaraiyer constructed a gopuram in in Tiruvannamalai in A.D.1335 and 1336. this was the hoysala period in thiruvannamalai (Nigamantha Desigan Per…

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Historical facts
> Raja Narayana Sambuvaraiyer constructed a gopuram in in Tiruvannamalai in A.D.1335 and 1336. during that period hoysalas were ruling thiruvannamalai. most posibly vir ballala was the king. venketesh S

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Tamil Proverbs - Part 13
Hi a long time ago sivaram kannan found his long lost friend in this group. then maloo discovered rahul dinakaran was her cousin( they have stopped feuding ever since!!!) now palanaippan vairam and I discovered we were from the same village- devako…

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THALIKKULATHAR
Hi -rajaraja must have been aware of thiruveezhmilalai incident. he must have read the thiruviizhimilai devaram which mentions thanjai it perhaps must have influenced him on the choice of location of big temple did he build next to it or did he bui…

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THALIKKULATHAR

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THALIKKULATHAR
> THALIKKULATHAR - as Dr. Sridhar rightly observed, might have been > a small structure nearby prior construction of Big temple - which > continued. > small but important. to my knowledge only temple in thanjavur town mentioned in de…

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Kalki and Rashomon effect
agatha christie used this method often. in one book I think 'hercule poirot's christmas' she has every body's version of a murder told to the local inspector( all of which seem out of question to detective poirot) and finally th…

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A rare work on Pandyan Nedumaaran
Hi there is a referecce that nedumaran was impressed by a bridge of elphants across kollidam by pulkesi. this was used by kalki in SS pulikesi's son perhaps had a battle with nedumaran at thirunelveli. i vaugely remember a reference. venket…

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Travels of Marco Polo - Text
the Venetian Traveller - Marco Polo. > the St Thomas burial place in Mylapoor, modernday historians claim that marco polo was the first to link mylapore and st thomas. there are even unproved theories that marco polo( and even battuta for …

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A Note on Dramatic & Literary Compositions on Rajaraja Chola - 1
> > Dear Thiru Gokul, > > I came to know that there exists a literary work in Tamil titled as > "Thanjai Peruvudaiyaar Ulla" - a pirapantham composed by Kottaiyur Sivakkis on the Thanjai Peruvudaiyar - the presiding deity…

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A Note on Dramatic & Literary Compositions on Rajaraja Chola - 1
Hi a nice link in layman terms on different types of tamil literature http://www.lisindia.net/Tamil/Tamil_lite.html venketesh

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marco polo and tamizhagam
Hi good point rahul especially about khusrau phenomenal poet, inventor of the sitar and tabla and great follower of nizamudin chisti but if one could exxagerate or flattter it was him. he was a court poet to 7 kings or so.he must have mananaged o…

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marco polo and tamizhagam
Hi Rahul foreign Historians talk about a confedracy of upto 5 kings one of them being the chakravarthy during later pandya times they even had seperate capitals. kannnore( samayapuram) and uyyokondan near trichy too seemed to have had capital stat…

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marco polo and tamizhagam
wassaf talks about Bir pandi sounds like a tamil cinema name doesnt it he was actually talking about vira pandiyan there is a lot of confusion amongst historians on who vira or sundara was the illegitimate son of kulasekara and who brought malik …

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TRAVELLERS TO ANCIENT INDIA
very informatic articles on ibn battuta check this article http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200004/default.htm http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/a.tangerine.in.delhi.htm …

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TRAVELLERS TO ANCIENT INDIA
> > I am starting off on reading "Alberuni's India" by Edward Sachau. Alberuni's Indica is the first person version of critical analysis of the Indian civilization at 1015AD, from a Muslim point of Hi Nandakumar there …

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Madhura Vijayam by Queen Gangadevi
> Malik kafurs was a short but brutal invasion which happened several years earlier. But Ulugh khan stayed in srirangam with his forces and plundered. I think this time the damage was permanent. malik kafur represented the khiljis. ulugh khan th…

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Madhura Vijayam by Queen Gangadevi
The later pandya, khilji invasion, and the madurai sultanate period have excellent first hand reports by visitors and historians 4 of them marco polo( later pandya) wassaf and khusro( khilji invasion) and ibn batuta( madurai sultanate)

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Dhivakar in Madurai
> Actually Central was the only theatre that would screen english movies in kovai and the only A/C 70 mm theatre also. it had a twin theatre no? kanakathara or swarna dara i remember the powerful ac they had. janni kattirum venketesh >

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