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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
there is very little known about malik before the salve markets of khambayat. his firstr name was malik hazardinari. for a lot of time people confused him with the ethiopian habsi malik ambar and assume he was coloured. venketesh

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
> ps: Pity that our people aided an outsider. It has been party of our history. So is the case of millions of Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army. darymples last emperor makes a wonderful study of this. how maratas the deadly enemies of …

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
Hi there were muslims in tamilnadu even before malik. peacefultrader communities who were also attacked by malik. wassaf even gives some names of families( arab origin) malik had dreams of building a naval force and taking on lanka soon thereafter. …

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
Hi the pandyans had not fought a real battle for decades when malik came along( except between themselves) i remember that vikrama the brother of kulasekara raised the standard of rebellion just like his grand uncle a couple of generations back. whi…

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Ganapati before Vatapi -1

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
Hi thirupunavasal -one of the pandi 14 temples. the largest lingam amongst the 276 devaram shrines the kali is within a gopuram and one has to view it on a mirror. when i went there 5 years back a muslim boy used to get 'Sami" and predict …

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
Hi maliks raid into the south obviously has " the victor writes the history" clause. obviously since the losers are shatterred and regrouping, and perhaps re arranging their lives in fact the two or three raids of turks over 25 years is o…

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Pallavarayars of Pudukottai
must have been telugu speaking for their tradition seemed to have crept into the tamil tondaimans coins venketesh

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Kaviri mainthanai padaitha namathu Venkatesh;s Birthday today
Thanks everybody

Comment by abhivencat August 2011 permalink
Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
This obviously has more fiction than fact i spent researching these crucial periods for nearly 2 years and information from any source was frustratingly less. most of this period was reconstructed by the accounts the turkish historians gave. i belie…

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Chalukyan Art and Kalki's view
> > 1.Do you feel the portrayal of Chalukyas by Kalki in Sivagamiyin Sabatham > > erroneous? > > if somebody used the literary licence to the utmost it would have been Kalki. even the relationship between appar and the pallava is c…

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Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
what i couldnt rather digest was 2 capitals so close to each other

Comment by abhivencat August 2011 permalink
Why Pandyas lost to Kafur.
historical accounts can be very confusing at the time of maliks invasion one of the 2 major pandyas was ruling from uyyakondan in trichy wheras a hoysala branch was ruling from kannanur or samayapuram. how is it that the hoysalas had moved so much i…

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Tamil Nadu Government Symbol
Hi sathish in our facebook page the link article was posted. check it out v

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ponni and rajarajan
> umapathy sivam 1253-1311 in thirumurai kanda puranam mentions both rajarajan and ponni river in the same stanza. perhaps for the first time . must have certainly inspired kalki to chose the topic for the book we have all come to love > >…

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Shadows and vimanams (was KARUVURAR)
was the architect trying to imitate chidambaram golden vimanam at a larger scale? > It's not a bend, as much as a curve running throughout the gopuram... Of all > the Dravida style temples, it is probably the one most deserving of the…

Comment by abhivencat July 2011 permalink
Shadows and vimanams (was KARUVURAR)
GKC gopuram takes a small bend half way( that reduces its size) . actually it looks like the bent pyramid of giza

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Big Temple - Myth - Shadow - Proved Wrong - 3D
> also a photo in the yahoo groups photos link where some of our members have > clicked a photo when the shadow was falling on the ground from the top of the vimanam............... >

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
were thirumangai and the nagapattinam vihara of the same period?

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
what is this thirumangai mannan-buddha episode. please do enlighten us

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capitals of Cholas
was pazhairai as important as kalki says?

Comment by abhivencat July 2011 permalink
capitals of Cholas
Hi what do we really have on the capitals of cholas was uraiyur more or less a symbolic capital that connected the later and early cholas an for example do we count chidambaram as one because rajendra ruled from there for 5 years or so venketesh

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
surprising. why no mention of Gkc. any loud thoughts?

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
we will never never have definitive details on the civilian deaths in the past. the loser was busy adjusting to his slavery while the winner wrote the history.but it has to be realised it would have been universal in those times when life meant a li…

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
Hi is one enemy better than another this interesting phenomenon happenned in the mughal- sikh- british trio the sikhs were sorely defeated by the british, their king converted, their treasures transferred to the tower of london including the kohino…

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
Hi History can stir up emotions line nothing else. thats why crafty politicians and conquerors try to rewrite it history if uncoloured would be best. a record of our past. a pathmap for the future. the mughals were deadly enemies of 2 races. the…

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275 tevara temples - Chola and Pandya dynasties
Hi the romance of nedumaran and mangaiyarkarasi so well documented in sivakamiyin sabatham. kalki just gives us broad events on things to come. why did he not write about later day nedumaran and mangayarkarasi i always used to wonder. so many chare…

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Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
Hi karthik how do you think the subdued states would have viewed the cholas or the tamil invaders. for instance what does mahavamsa record on the chola invasion. it would be interesting to look. venketesh

Comment by abhivencat July 2011 permalink
275 tevara temples - Chola and Pandya dynasties
Hi the one girl who changed it all came from chola land. it is well documented in devaram. so her upbringing must have been in strong shaivaite environment. the temples may have been quite active in chola land. as for the numerous devara shrines in …

Comment by abhivencat July 2011 permalink
Shivaji (was Marathas in Tanjore)
the sivaji portrayed in popular culture was so different from reality he certainlky would have succeeded if aurangazeb didnt out live him but he should have been happy that the marathas finally became " the protector of the mughal emperor"…

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