Thanks for so much info lavanya. To be frank, I'm absolutely baffled by the amount of info you have provided. Many things are new to me ... and to the whole group as well ( I believe). My only worry is that whether we have evidence for all this !! across the military school you are talking about - at all ! To me - it all seems to be events from a historic novel - rather than information from inscriptions and copper plates !! (Just kidding :-))
Anyway I fully understand your position and I'll wait for your next chennai trip :-) Let us hope your friend will provide us more details!
Hi Gokul I am so sorry... I entirely agree with you....All these things I had happened to know long ago, so long ago that I cant separate the inferences from the inscriptions.... But I was convinced of all this. I have completely made a mess of all the facts that I think it requires Mr. Sundar Bharadwaj(the source of all my information) himself to clarify it to us. I will try and make him to write a detailed mail for all of us. In the meanwhile, you can just take it as some information - without classifying it as fact or fiction. But I do think that there is evidence of Rajarajan destroying such a place in one of the inscriptions. I am so sorry for providing you all with incomplete informations. Please bear with me till I could find out more about it. In the meanwhile, I guess Mr.Gokul has something else to look out for - info. abt this military school... Will try n get the name next time I call up home....
To tell the truth- I've heard about this famed mililtary school too- but my sources too were fictional works:-). I'd really like to know if it really did exist. I think it's mentioned in one of Balakumaran's historical novels (Ram- I think you must know this...)
Am I glad that the great and omnipotent Brahmaraayar had no hand in Aditya's assasination:-)...I'm learning a lot about PS since Mr. Gokul and Lavanya began posting.