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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
Hi, People get me right, I am not against religions. When god,philosophies,rituals are brought together under the tag of religion. Some where down the line some thing gets wrong. religion doesnt preach violence but people under the name of religi…
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
Hi Malathi, Shiva -Sivaji Tharumi - Nagesh Avvaiyar - K P Sundramabal Agathiyrar- Sirgali Murugan - Shiva kumar Krishna,Rama - NTR wat ever true history we find...ppl cant erase these faces out of their mind....power of Cinema!!!!…
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
When i think about religions I think about the line form Godfather 'behind every fortune there is a crime' similarly ' behind every big religion there is enough blood spilled'.... fights in the name of religion and god are going …
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
Hi, sorry for my ignorance...if you give more information on 'Kongu ther vazhkai' I will try to find it out. Sorry once more about my ignorance , i dont know about the Thriukural legend too. When it comes to Thirukkural and Avvaiya…
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
There is no written record for both... so in historic lingo both are Legends!
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
Yeah it was the same one... this legend has Nakkirar to be head of the Sangam and Tarumi was given gold by The lord.
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Tamil Sangam - Facts and Ficiton
I would also like to point out the one fact from Tolkappiyam, Tolkappiyam says there are 12 regional dialects and they were called Koduntamil. Pure Tamil was spoken only in one region and it was region around present day Madurai. So historically, T…
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Two more poems of Love sickness
Sorry didnt post the link for the blog, here it is http://karkanirka.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/lovesickness2/ Vairam
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a plowman with a single plow
Ravi, Andal was also just another human being, before she had dedicated love towards the lord and gave everything that is needed to attain the god. Andal is an example to the human kind to show, any work done with dedication reaches the god. …
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a plowman with a single plow
When u said about Kanden seethayai.... I remebered about a blog which i posted earlier...I am posting it here Original Tamil verse in my blog, http://karkanirka.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/ramavatharam/ "I saw the jewel of chastity with these …
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a plowman with a single plow
Hi Venkateswaran, oh gr8 idea.... en levelku I am planning to write an essay in lighter note to compare Tamil cinema and Sangam Literature.
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a plowman with a single plow
Aaandal enaga Theenda thagatha Kadavula...oru comparisionu kooda use pannkoodathunu solluringa... Andal than soodiya maalayai kadavul mel soodum pothu keditha santhosam pol ...ov oru thai pillayai endru edukum pothu perum santhosam adikiral ...nu k…
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a plowman with a single plow
Yahoo dosen't support Tamil fonts...so easiest thing is cut and paste into your gmail and post it to yourself and read it!
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a plowman with a single plow
Hi Vijay, I am surely ignorant about temple sculpture. I spoke more in terms of the thought process of the sculpture.. though there might be so many procedures before installing a sculpture as god...the creator of the idol would have had immense …
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a plowman with a single plow
one thought occurred to me now.... Already discussed in Kannadasan thread, 'padaipathanal nanum kadavul than'..if you are able to create you are god... Then think in the point of view of a sculptor who is also a creator....if he thinks it…
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a plowman with a single plow
Malathi, I totally accept your views. But one great thing about Sangam is it describes every small feeling lovers have.Young Kids of school though have access to internet and use to its maximum utility can never understand it , till they grow as an…
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a plowman with a single plow
Hi, All the Tamil books are online now in PDF format...somebody sent me a link recently. So people who want to relook Tamil can start from 1st Std. Text book!.... When I was in Second std I had a lesson called Kayalvili...it explains her getti…
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a plowman with a single plow
Ravi you can go on with third meaning of the poem and explain it... I am restricting myself from explaining the second! :D
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a plowman with a single plow
Please read the last two lines .... The clue is the man compares himself as the farmer with a plough... and women as a land wet and ready... The last lines are very open double meaning(allusion in purist terms)...Please understand it and enjoy it...…
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a plowman with a single plow
Please read these lines carefully....U will understand it... Lot of double meaning in sangam style! :D
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Thanks to Inter Library Loan
This is a very interesting system which I discovered only this year. In America all Libraries do this service free of charge. So only thing is you have to member of one of Libraries around. This is mostly possible if you are a student ,then you beco…
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What if he lies?
Hi, Apologies to forum and Mr.Ravi, if the post has taken a personal level. I would abstain from such post. Thank you to Mr.Vijay for pointing it out. But I would request Mr.Ravi to give reference at required places , since it helps in healthy…
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Poet who criticised the Brahminic beliefs
Hi, Based on discussions on this forum and Mintamil forum(where Dr.N.Kannan had given a beautiful explanation about these two shidda poems) , I have changed by blog title to 'Poet who criticized the prevalent religious beliefs -Civavakiyar po…
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What if he lies?
I am also have one more question for Mr.Ravi There are poems in Kurunthokai which are uttered by Concubaine(What the Concubine said).. what is the explanation for it ?...do you want to degrade your god by saying he visited Harlots?
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What if he lies?
Hi everyone, This is a very very detailed reply to prove that stance of Mr.Ravi is not true with regards to either Kurunthokai or Gorge L Hart. 1. I am posting here 4 other translations of various scholars of the same poem, About the Translator…
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Poet who criticised the Brahminic beliefs
The facts about Civavakkiyar is as below, Name: Legend: He uttered the word Shiva while he was born. Possible truth: Named after his work Civavakkiyam. Period: First there needs this clarification - There are two Pattinattar in Tamil literature. O…
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TRUE HISTORY
Hello SPS Sir, I am totally accepting your views. My path is also learn true history , but it is very very very small scale compared to yours. I loved history from my school. Have distinction of being in top .2% of CBSE exam writers in my 10th in H…
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Is Kamaba Ramayanam e text available
Thank you very much.... rite now some server update...hopefully i get it in a couple of days! Project Madurai it is not there!
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Poet who criticised the Brahminic beliefs
"just dismiss them as rumblings of a person with unstable mind" I think these same lines was uttered to him during his life time by many people....he has written a poem for this situation...its given below you who are foolish will say:…
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Poet who criticised the Brahminic beliefs
The exact words of Kamil Zvelebil are as below "Civavakkiyar was one of the greatest rebels against the hindu establishment,particularly against the brahminic order of things,he denounces the Brahmans,the authority of vedas and the aagamas,he c…
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