One thought keep coming to me - seeing the size of the temples built all over Tamilnadu [excluding a very few ] I think thatthat most of the Tamil kings must have ruled only small territories during their period. Is it so ? Otherwise why a king should build such small temples all over the places ? I am not finding any fault but I am writing this to know the facts.
Almost all the characters are my favourite because they are the children of our guru! Still I like that poor vaanathi . . Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone
When I was young when one of our relatives will come , my grandfather will chat with him for hours together and in the middle when they discuss about certain friend of theirs, my grandfather will say "that fellow is a NagaNandi !!" I used to watch their conversation and then when he said this, i would interupt him and say who is this Naga Nandi. he would laugh and say that it has a big story behind it !! I would ask him please tell the story. He will say that it is a big story and will tell later. In fact he never told the story. My father got transferred to hyderabad and my tamil learning got stuck in the middle. After a year or two when i visited my grandpa's house there was this book Sivakamiyin Sabatham. With my little knowledge i touched it and could not keep it down !!! At every step I would wonder what this bhikshu is going to do now !! and after reading the story I could understand what my grandfather had meant when he said " that fellow is a naganandi " and i could also understand why he did not tell the story to me !!!