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Malaiadipatti Video
Thanks, Arvind. Like the music, too. Looks like a wonderful place, do you know its date? kathie

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saiva siddhantham-21
Dear Gandhi, I find it very hard to understand your posts. . . Can you simplify them in any way"? My Chennai friends say I know quite a bit about "Sanatana Dharma": ( I'm an honorary DESI ) kathie

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Karaikkal ammaiyar
Dear Sankar, I can't make out the lower figures, gets pixilated when I I've enlarged mine and still can't see it clearly, damaged figure. kathie

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Raja Raja's resting place : Pallippadai
thanks for the Mallai photos, Venketesh N. thanks for all the Pallippadai info, sps. kathie

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Raja Raja's resting place : Pallippadai
Friends, what are pallippadais, please? kathie

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very funny, vj

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Concepts :: Thus Spake
Those two tales are brilliant, SPS. As we say : God helps those who help themselves. [also use your common sense]

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Karaikkal ammaiyar
couldn't sleep when I saw VJ's quiz. Art before Rest, right? kathie

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Karaikkal ammaiyar
dear Gokul, where did you see Karaikkal in Calukyan sculptures? Can I see? Kathie

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Krishna - Buddha - Jaina
Dwarka's far west. Just a little tweak. . . kathie

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Buddha Avatar
Dear SPS, One little correction, Buddha's enlightenment was attained at BodhGaya, very near the Vishnu MahaTirtham, Gaya, in Bihar, quite a ways South of Patna. Then he went to Kasi to preach 1st sermon in the deer park [at nearby Sarnath]. kat…

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AVANI GANDARVA ISWARA GRIHAM- Balarama worship
Dear Dhiwakarb, Just to add to the confusion, learning about renowned pairs of hero / Gods : if, in "MBh.", Arjuna/Krishna are avataras for NaraNarayana? Who occupy a similar place in the "Ramayana"? Does this have to do w …

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Balarama worship
Dear Vardhini, That's a wonderful explanation. Where are you from? is that a regional purana? > Dear Sir, > > In the old movie "Dasavatharam", there is a scene where Krishna > tells Naradhar : when he took RamAvataram, …

Comment by injamaven February 2010 permalink
Balarama worship
Dear SPS, Balram closely connected w Naagar, as you know. see image on Lakshmana Mandir, Khajuraho, 11th cent. In fact, some of those Mathura early images, can't tell whether it's a Nagaraja or it's Balarama. Kathie

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AVANI GANDARVA ISWARA GRIHAM- Balarama worship
Borassus (Palmyra Palm) is a genus of six species of fan palms, what exactly are you objecting to? kathie

Comment by injamaven February 2010 permalink
AVANI GANDARVA ISWARA GRIHAM- Balarama worship
Dear Gokul, Not just any palm is Balarama cognizance: must be fan palm only, I think. Not certain. Here's one at foot of tree near Heliodorus Pillar, Vidisha, MP.

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AVANI GANDARVA ISWARA GRIHAM - KILAIYUR @ KIZHA PAZHUVUR
Dear SPS, more beating of almost dead horse: Keezhaiyur, Melappazhuvur . . . and a third site, formerly called Kilappalavur, now written: Keezhappazhuvur [of Parantaka I's time] with a ThiruAlandurai Mahadevar temple, BSM says the site lies 3…

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Interview re Kalki
I own Balasubrahmanyam's Early Chola Temples, but alas, don't have a scanner. Would happily copy texts, on indiv. sites, if wanted. In that book I discovered Uraiyur--Tantonisvaram; & Kilaiyur. Kathie

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PAZHUVUR photos
Dear SPS, Not sure this is your Nandini's Pazhuvur, because there is also a Melapazhuvur and Keezhapazhuvur. This is Keezhaivur. Very confusing. kathie

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The secrets of Ajantha- a request
Dear Sundar, re Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India v.1, George Michell, 1989 Ellora : caves 1-13 Buddhist group ~ 7th & 8th century caves 14-29 Hindu group ~ 6th thru 9th century caves 30-33 Jaina group ~ 9th centur…

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PS group and Moderation
Dear Sridhar, 'Inja' is just a joke on the way old Brits pronounced it, 'maven' is a Yiddish word meaning someone extremely involved in, or expert in something, not that I'm claiming that [& by the way, I'm not …

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a tamil I would like to meet.....
dear SPS, I'm afraid I don't know much about Ramanar, just like his face, and once read a book by a westerner who'd travelled all over India in the '40s, searching for a genuine holy man: Ramanar was the only one he was able to f…

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Museum exhibits - stolen artifacts?e
so we should say Kubhera Pradesh instead of Andhra Pradesh? by the way, how's the new state coming along? kathie

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Another Earth ?
dear sps, What does Ayodhya have to do w fish? Do they mean MatsyaAvatara? or are they the Buddhist yoked-fish pair? kathie

Comment by injamaven January 2010 permalink
PS group and Moderation
Dear friends, Here's the address of my Picasa albums. Take a look. . . ( key in 'picasa.google.com' Then in search field, enter 'yazhi' click on any image by 'injamaven' [= me] that will bring you to my albums.) …

Comment by injamaven January 2010 permalink
PS group and Moderation
I joined the group when I ran into someone who started giving me info on Tamil temples, esp. the earliest ones. I was so happy to find a place forn a stranger like me, to learn about ancient TN Koils. That's it. that's what did it. I…

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British Contribution to Indian Culture
I don't want to over-praise Westerners, but we did take an interest in your history, and many of those men who laboured for decades --decifering manuscripts, puzzling out murthis, -- were not in it for 'gain', only for understan…

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Museum exhibits - stolen artifacts?
are you referring to the Koh-i-Noor? stolen from the last Punjab Maharaja, Ranjit Singhji? kathie >

Comment by injamaven January 2010 permalink
Museum exhibits - stolen artifacts?
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was given a tremendous collection acrued by the Sri Lankan, Ananda Coomaraswamy. Who knows how he obtained his holdings? What saddens me, is that most are in the basement storeroom. . . I really must ask to see them.…

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Hinduism and CRY wolf!!
US is not a Christian nation !!! Get that off your mind. Quoting from the U.S. Constitution : "One nation, under God, with liberty & justice for all." Stop w this anti-Christian, anti-Muslim rant. . . The West only cares about its ec…

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