There have been many events which caused changes and turns and twists in the Tamilian history. Tsunamis, earth quakes, erosion by sea, foreign invasions, waves of migrations, famines, pestilances, and wars were these events. Some of them had far-reaching consequences with deep impacts upon the fabric of Tamilian society. Wars played important parts also. Several of these wars changed the course of Tamilian history. One such battle was the Battle of ThiruPuRambiyam. Two empires exhausted themselves by frequent fierce wars and finally fought a battle which totally weakened them. The Pallavas and the Pandyas. This gave rise to a new power. The Imperial Cholzas. This line gave rise to great emperors like RajaRaja Cholza, Rajendra Cholza, KulOthungga Cholza. I am giving a synopsis of the famous Battle of ThirupuRambiyam. I am aslo trying to give a clear background as to the long time competition between the Pallavas and the Pandyas which lasted for three hundred years. Of these two powers, the Pandyas have waged battles outside their domain. Which means that they were waging wars of agression. There are two simple maps which depict the Tamilnadu of ancient times and the Tamilnadu during the Pandya/Pallava competition. Since the article is in unicode, there will not be any problem in reading them. To facilitate readers, the article has been divided into four sections.
should we also not list the top ten things that changed tamilnadu the events must have had far reaching consequences even today here's my list not by importance but chronologically
1.building of the kallanai which made tanjore the bread basket, averted famines, and ggenerally supported cultural and religious activities.
2sambandars visit to madurai.- it changed the religious face of tamilnadu. a hindu revivial
3. tirupurambayam war
4 malik kafur's invasion upto kempenna's madurai vijayam. changed the demography of tamilnadu with influx of other language speaking rulers
5 On 22 August 1639, Francis Day of the British East India Company bought a small strip of land on the Coromandel Coast from the Vijayanagara King, Peda Venkata Raya in Chandragiri. who granted the British permission to build a factory and warehouse for their trading enterprises. A year later, the British built Fort St George, which became the nucleus of the growing colonial city. chennai.
6.founding of precidency college( 1840), madras medical college (1835)and the engineering college(1794). the precidency college boasts of two nobel laureates. high for any one college in the developing world. these helped in the multipronged knowledge systems for which tamil nadu is famous for.
7. linguistic demarcations of states, the anti hindi agitations and the draviidian movement.
AD Anno Domini (Medieval Latin: In the year of (the/Our) Lord),abbreviated as AD or A.D., is a designation used to number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. More fully, years may be also specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ").
BC Before Christ, abbreviated as BC or B.C., is used in the English language to denote years before the birth of christ
CE Common Era (also known as Christian Era and Current Era; abbreviated CE)is a designation for the period of time beginning with year 1 of the Gregorian calendar. BCE' An earlier date is then designated BCE, described as "Before the Common, Christian, or Current Era".
The numbering of years is identical to the numbering in the Anno Domini system, neither system using a year zero. The only difference between Common Era, Christian Era, and Anno Domini notation is in the names themselves. Common Era notation has been adopted in several non-Christian cultures, by many scholars in religious studies and other academic fields, and by others wishing to be sensitive to non-Christians.
CE stands for Common/Christian Era and BCE stands for Before Common/Christian Era.
B.C., which stands for "Before Christ," is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase *anno Domini,*which means "in the year of our Lord," and is used for dates after Jesus's birth. This system of dating has been used for many years by Western archaeologists. Today, however, with a growing understanding that not all archaeologists are Christians, some archaeologists prefer to use the terms: Before the Common Era (B.C.E.) and the Common Era (C.E.), which are exactly the same as B.C. and A.D. but have nothing to do with Christianity.
I might be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that, when we say CE or BCE, there can be a possibilty of error in the year. Meanings its just an approximation and not the exact year. If we say 111 AD, its exactly 111 AD, but if we say 111 CE, then thats just an approximation and can differe in actual.
So historians use CE or BCE when they are not sure about the exact period. So when we say Tamil sangam was held 2000 years back, we can it was held in 3 CE but cant say 3 AD..
And if my memory is right, the approximation varies for around 150 years. if 3 CE, it can be plus or munus 150 years. CE is for years in AD and BCE is for years in BC.
People who know better can correct me if I am wrong.
Hi sathish what is in a year this side or that side when we are talking about a few thousand. a joke about a museum guide who explains to the visitors that a dinosaur skeleton is lakh and twelve years old. stunned at his accurate dating they ask him how he arrived at so accurate a date the guide replied " when i joined the museum 12 years back they said it was one lakh years old"
ithu nalla kathaya irukke... What you say is true for matters pertaining to say, human evolution, geology etc.
Can we say that RRC lived somewhere between 900 AD and 1100 AD? Its not even 1000 years, just 200 years and we cant make out anything with this. So when some historical events cant be dated exactly, an approximation is used. Kalabra's ruled TN between 100 CE to say 500 CE...but we can say Mahendra Palla ruled somewhere between 600AD and 800 AD.
it makes a lot of difference. I think CE is used for such approximation.
Hi unfortunately yes a lot is approximation. especially witht he two calender systems.
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we dont have exact dates for many. even jesus birth which is used as a bench mark for these years varies from gospel to gospel some even assess his birth using the conjunction of 2 planets- venus is one of them which formed the bright star of bthlehem. the comets are used to accurately predict the years. atleast one of them wat the battle of hastings in england where halleys comet came for the full war. the comet that kalki talks about in ps is not the halleys for there was no appearance just then.
CE stands for Common/Christian Era and BCE stands for Before Common/Christian Era.
B.C., which stands for "Before Christ," is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase anno Domini, which means "in the year of our Lord," and is used for dates after Jesus's birth. This system of dating has been used for many years by Western archaeologists. Today, however, with a growing understanding that not all archaeologists are Christians, some archaeologists prefer to use the terms: Before the Common Era (B.C.E.) and the Common Era (C.E.), which are exactly the same as B.C. and A.D. but have nothing to do with Christianity.