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Re : Statistics on education in india
hi, Thought his site in its initial avatar primarily dealt with kalki's immortal works, ponniyin selvan ( refer sps sirs, note to new comers), the discussions arising out of the historical background of this novel has spurred us to look int…

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last kings of a dynasty
> > > Hi Venkat, > > > > Great! > > > > In a mail you said that the Tamil grand father - Vu Ve > > Sa recovered most of his Cankam age palm leaf texts > > from a region in Chettinad... > > > …

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80 Scenes of the Life of Buddha
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/acrobat/buddhaimage.pdf The Origin of the Buddha Image The Buddha image, without which the sculptural art of South Asia would have been deprived not only of its major bulk but also much of its stylistic versatility …

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education in ancient days
> > >>and the man who said this was a weaver. > > >>venketesh Hi, We also need to talk of the Gupta period....Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta- great contributions to Vedic mathematics ,similarly in medicine - Char…

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education in ancient days
> > after you look at the kalvettu you will be surprised that these > actually are tamil and someone can make decipher them ....they look > more like vivek comedy ( jangiria pichi potta mathiri...) http://asi.nic.in/pdf_data/sanskri…

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Ramar Sethu??
> > gandhi died uttering the name of rama whose existence our leaders > question now. > lovely venkat, now will the government question his wisdom / disclaim mahatma and name somebody else as the father of the nation

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Ramar Sethu??
hi satish It was not mine, came from someone, found it relevant...

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education in ancient days
> - Are the scripts used in the inscriptions same as today. If not why > was it changed ? If so why did people people think that Karikalan > build the Kovil? > - Has there been research on the inscriptions itself like were the > in…

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education in ancient days
Education must have been much valued and appreciated, how else do we have these whole capter on kalvi and kalamai in tirukural karka kasadara karka, katrapin nirka atharku thaga kanudaiyar enbar katror, mugathilrendu punudaiyar kalathavar...... …

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Education in ancient days in Tamialnadu .. 01
hi sps sir, My grandfather was village headman - he was handy in kal, arikal vaipaadu as well, my dad did too ( he was never maniam though, as thatha migrated to chennai)...but now a days even for the smallest of calculations ( though we did lea…

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education in ancient days
> But finding a good teacher for higher studies seemd to be a > herculain task those days. > Must be later day problem, the very detail to which the units are pursued is a sure pointer to an advanced scientific working in tamil. Check…

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education in ancient days
hi venkat cool, but why did they have these in the first place. why did they have to name these complicated fractions?? or for what use would 1/ 18,38,400 be put to, for it to be so important to have number/character for itself. thats what is ba…

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education in ancient days
Hi, Nice thread. Look at this ancient tamil names for fractions Kez mumaa - 1/6400 kez araikal - 1/2500 kez iruma - 1/3200 kez veesam - 1/5120 kezoruma - 1/6400 kez mukkani - 1/25600 keziraima - 1/12800 kezkkani - 1/25600 kez araikani - 1/512000 k…

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purananuru
hi bala sir The tamil etext can be downloaded from the project madurai site below http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/ettuthokai/pm0057.pdf if you are looking for english translation then you need to look for this booK The four hundred songs …

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Welcome New members
Koncham nalla moochadakki ul neechal pottu thedungal, intha innaya thalathhin azathil nal muthukkal pala ullana. avatrrai yeduthu seithu oru maalaiyaga koorka avaal.

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some doubts on PS
> IT IS NOT CUSTOMERY TO DECLARE YUVARAJA ON THESE LINES.. Sundara chola is not the first born. yet is crowned superseeding uttama ( only two options - uttama must have been a toddler or still in the womb) - in the first instance what was the…

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Hi sir Why not we work this as a diary ( RRc has been blamed for not keeping a diary )...a page for every year and keep filling in the details etc. similar for rjc n others. we have a rough time line already handy. We could list the details and …

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what year did RRC retrive the Tirumurai
hi venkat checking ref An Outline of the Religious Literature of India By J.N. Farquhar ( google books) pg 256 http://books.google.com/books? id=lwggjSPrjxUC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=chola+tiru+murai&source=web&ots =6Y9UbUN6BO…

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Hi, feel we should first discuss the topics that are to be hosted and then edit each thread into a concise file. we could initially just do the topics list and then cut paste the threads into the file. Then some of us can take on the task of edit…

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Adam's Bridge or Ramar Paalam
Hi bala sir, This might be of interest to you: Call for papers Theme : Flood Stories, Lost Lands and Drowned Continents http://cas.upm.edu.ph/alamat/

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Adam's Bridge or Ramar Paalam
Dear venkat Nice one. Bala sir, ric, if your study fails to turn up material evidence ..what would the government do, does it man the bridge was never built, rama never existed. this is where the government missed the wood for the trees....the q…

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How did RRC draw up the budget for the big temple
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/socialscientist/pager.html? issue=27&objectid=HN681.S597_27_028.gif hi, the link get broken when posting, you can copy the whole into one line in notepad or word and then click the link

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Great Feats...
> > The Cholas sent several embassies to the Middle Kingdom and were > recognized as the "Tributary state of the First Class", the same > status as the Fatimids, Srivijaya and Java and together with China > these states r…

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thats news. i always thought the legend was about usurping sivan kovil sothu...also something about being reborn as a bat and hanging upside down ( anyone see any bats in a vishnu temple for that matter??)

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> > on phropesies > the new outer gopuram of thiruvanmiyur temple facing the valmiki > nagar remains incomplete. > 2 people including a media mogul who tried to complete it died. so > there it remains a concrete skeleton. > b…

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Anyone who did built any monument on this place, would > make his living male progeny and blood lineage die and > extinct. check this legend http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/02/05/stories/2006020500150300.htm The book under review deals with …

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venkat wrote: > > > > > > perhaps came to power at 40 and ruled till 65. > > > > > > those days at that age you want to relax anf nor go for a war. > > the > > > fiery ambition so inhernt in p…

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