Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

May be not…our tradition was ‘sruthi, smrithi’….sound and relating a
sound to a concept makes it easy to remember and relate.
Our older generation used to multiply big numbers mentally, but our
generation […]

Nice reading

Thanks for sharing. Learnt new things in the process.

Nandri

Sri Sri

No other monk as Swami Vivekananda has taken the best of Hinduism to an alien country as done by Mahaperiyaval in South India. In fact, both swamis have not only dealt on Hinduism but also on a wide variety of […]

The Tamil version is online

http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/part1index.htm

English version of first 2 volumes

http://www.kamakoti.org/newlayout/template/hindudharma.html

The entire volumes are also available in […]

Maybe, but we don’t know what their burdens were… Or even if they are in
any way comparable…

Shash

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, laxmanan kailasam

Dear,
Can we compare the various types of taxes exists in the Chola System such as Eccoru,  Antarayam, kadamai, Kudimai, General Tax terms,  and irrigation dues  with the present taxation of our country?
 

Don’t read Balakumaran’s ‘Udayar’.
sampath

It will be a noble and worthwhile service to our religion, if excerpts
from ‘Deivathin kural’ are printed as a compact book and gifted to all
youngsters; in my opinion, no other book on hinduism has captured […]

Can we end the deabate now?

When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948, the Hindu Carried advertisement on the first page, then came the news.

The Akshayavat of Prayag was cut and molten iron poured in roots so thatno treemay evercome up again there […]

Thank you sir.

I’m saying that the specific numbers would have held back progress…

Much of science comes from people in different fields being able to
communicate and explore commonalities in their different fields. […]

simply interested in her.

No other reason

Since many members are interested in PS, started a thread.
 

See – All people will not use all fractions.
 
Gold smiths a few, Doctors and chemists a few. Metallurgist a few.
 
We use the word – immi kooda kurayakkoodathu.
 
Sidda medicines – anu alavu padarasam […]

Wonder if that was a detriment rather than an achievement. Or possibly both?

We can represent all these using a common notation. Imagine if you had to
learn hundreds of names for each denominator, and after that, […]

Then all it tells us is that there were a lot of inscriptions about taxes
in that time. Doesn’t mean that the taxes were higher.

On the other hand, rapid revisions of the tax code would indicate some
instability, […]