Hi Guys, Beginning this week, I'll be posing my ideas as small titbits of info in a series with the above title. Hope it will help us to break the big lull and generate some discussions. First I'll begin with characters and then proceed to events. My aim is to compare the evidences available from history against the imagination of Amarar kalki and share some thoughts on them. I begin with our hero Vandhiyathevan. I have to tell you that if response is too poor, I may not be encouraged to write much !!:(
Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan was a real personality who existed in Chola regime under Rajaraja and before. His origins and caln are absolutely nothing to prove his connectivity with Vaanar Kulam. Sadasiva Pandarathar suggests that he might have belonged to eastern chalukyas - again without offering much evidence to support his claim.
Dr.Poovannan's research has some interesting insights on this. He has clearly quoted how Kalki had a very strong belief that Vandhiyathevan belonged to Vanar clam and he was even prepare to go against some of the well known historians of his times - in this. The question is : What made Kalki to believe so strongly that VThevan was indeed a vaanan ??
Again, Vandhiyathevan does not speak about his father mother or family throughout the story ! and none of us think about this at all ! Once he speaks about his early childhood - but nowhere does he mention about his father etc. and how he is connected to vaanar kulam. The truth is that there is no historic evidence to support this. But Kalki should have had his own ideas behind this faith..what it was ? We might never know !!