Since a topic on Jallikattu has opened up I wish to take it bit tangential.Iwish to post that people should read the book (Kuru Novel) called "Vaadi Vaasal" I am sure voracious readers must have read this book long back. But this book is worth a read.
Any comments from people who have already read that book?
> THOUGHT some one will quote Iravatham Mahadevan's observations > of 'VIDAIYERUDHAL " - Jallikkattu - as early in 3rd BC with depiction > of a stone monument - kept in Delhi Museum ! (as reported in Dhinamalar > a couple of days back). hi sps sir,
the link to hindu in the first post is the same article..
I have myself seen such bulls with such long curved horns. More over its 4000 years old so there are chances for your doubt also to be true. I am not sure when the BULL was first used in Jallikattu. Infact after the Jallikattu the Supreme Court banned another "Game" of the NE states, where two buffalo lock horns. So you may be right
Hi two jallikattu scenes in cinema, gemini in veerapandiya kattabomman, and rajini in murattu kalai. nice sport to prove your manliness i guess if your intestines dont spill out. but this water buffalo fighting is common all over the far east. venketesh