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Comment by vj_episteme May 2007 permalink
A place called Kurukshetra in laos!!
Hi, I have seen many depictions of the ramayana in thai/indon where the features of characters are not confirming to what we have in india. This is especially true of the non human characters ( both good and bad) - the depiction of hanuman is at…

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History of Bronze Sculptures - lost wax method..khmer n chola!
http://www.afaweb.org/education/downloads/Chola Teacher's % 20Resources.pdf check out this resource - excellant photos and description of the idols. is a teacher resource, how many of our schools acually do this??

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Adam's Bridge or Ramar Paalam
hi, Infrastructure plays a very important role in the economic progress of the nation. No country can think of economic progress & development without the development of efficient infrastructure. Especially in age of globalisation where inte…

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Hindu idols in khmer
Saving Angkor, a book by C.M. Bhandari. The cultural links, between Cambodia or the ancient Kambuja and India are stated to have begun from the early centuries of the Christian era. The local tradition speaks of the first arrival of an Indian na…

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Archeological proof for Tamil Kingdom in Indonesia
hi, this is an intersting site and check the link for the timelines on the ancient scripts http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_timeline.html there is also mention on javanese http://www.ancientscripts.com/javanese.html Javanese is one of the earl…

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May be useful to our new members
check out this link as well...the photographs and commentry are excellant http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/india/india.html

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Frontline article
cool, lucky you tobe able to attend such programs. check these links as well http://www.ifpindia.org/Darasuram-Architecture-and-Iconography.html http://www.ifpindia.org/histatlas/Atlas_Files/intro01.html sorry to flood your mail boxes.

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Frontline article
Sublime manifestations of art brought forth by connoisseurs. I remember frontline carried a series called rediscovering indian paintings couple of years back where they compared/contrasted the cave paintings of ajanta caves ( 2Century bc), Badam…

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Sites visited by Arulmozhi during his time in srilanka!!
totally agree. To be able to conceptualise such an epic that entralled ( dont think its correct to use past tense ...entralling audiences) week on week - with the core of the story coming from a few culverts...is the master stroke of kalki...as y…

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WHO IS NANDHINI
check out this site THE MEDIAEVAL KINODOM TO THE CHOLA CONQUEST IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY http://lakdiva.org/codrington/chap03.html Kassapa V. (ninth-tenth century), born of the twice crowned queen' Sangha, was the son of Sena II., and w…

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tamil kalvettu in quanzhou china...
hi managed to find the old tamil guide, have posted it in the photos section of this group

Comment by vj_episteme May 2007 permalink
tamil kalvettu in quanzhou china...
hi gang, is there an online guide to assist /help read old tamil inscriptions. take a look at this collection of oldtamil inscriptions from flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages/sets/72157594389987918/

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WHO IS NANDHINI
Hi, this is the article that i referred to http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1725/17250620.htm quote" In the early eleventh century, the Chola king Rajendra I furnished his capital with images he had seized from several prominent neighbou…

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lost city believed to be found - it is said to be raided by rajendra chola
Champa/Angadvipa on the coast of Annam - Vietnam Indonesia : Java or Yavadvipa Sumatra - Suvarnadvipa/Samudradvipa Borneo or Varunadvipa Bali or Balidvipa Burma or Indra Dvipa Malaya or Sri Vijaya Siam thailand Cambodia or Khamboja Philippines aka…

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WHO IS NANDHINI
I have a question to the group - historic accounts seem to conflict with the reglious tolerance shown by arulmozhi during his conquests...Kalki portrays a more heroic /do gooder image of arulmozhi during his time in ceylon, but later day accounts…

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Chola empire n thailand
hi, no need to sir me, vijay ( vj for short will do).. its a nice feel to be associated with intellectuals like you all. you could say that i have a vexed interest in this - since i am a shipping professional from chennai now settled in sin.....…

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Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapati Sthapati...
Hi all, thanks ...s, the temple is imposing and would love to read more about the book that the Dr published. does anyone have a copy, would like to know if its indeed an interesting read.

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Temple built by Raja Raja Cholan
http://www.andaman.org/NICOBAR/book/history/prehistory+general/prehis tory.htm check out this link...

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For New Members: Best Threads...
i cant wait to see the outcome of these. last night we went to the singapore night safari, and it was great to see the underlying message in the show...to conserve. Feel a monumental effort like PS animation must also bear such messg, to preserv…

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Devadasis in during Medieval cholas period
http://www.samarthbharat.com/files/devadasihistory.pdf the above link has some good research on this subject

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