Hi, I hope that I am not dragging it too far with dynasties that never lost a war after building a huge temple.I did some more research on it and found interesting answers.(I might be wrong somewhere,please correct me with names and correct answers.This is just a childish study,that's all)
I found that rather than limiting to dynasties that built a huge temple,what about dynasties that were somehow closely related to a religious figure?Like an alzwar or nayanmar?
Vijayalaya's dyansty is related to kochenganan.He was a king as well as a nayanmar.So vijayalaya belonged to the dynasty of a nayanmar.So its no wonder that as long as his dynasty ruled it won and won,barring a few battles.(Dont forget it was related to Lord ram himself and king sibi too.Aditha chola's actual name was kodhandaraman)
Similiar is the case with Mahendra varma.He was closely related to appar swamigal.After that loss to pulikesin,his dynasty never lost awar again.And again many say that pulikesin did not enter kanchi and was defeated by mahendra varma near kanchi.Maybe that battle was lost since mahendravarma tortured appar swamigal initially.Mahendravarma was also closely related to mangayarkarasi,the pandya queen(who was chola princess)who again is a nayanmar.So his dynasty never lost a war again.
And if we see the vijayanagar empire the story repeats itself.It was blessed by none other than swami vidyaranya(a sankaracharya,who had dharshan of mother laxmi)He founded the empire with two accountants harihara,bukka and their valiant general kumara kambana.
This dynasty built huge temples in vijayanagar(current hambi)The narashima temple there was very big(It was demolished by muslims later)The last king of that dynasty was krishnadevaraya.His son died at age 7 and after him his son-in-law ramaraya came to throne.Guess what?Vijayanagar empire was demolished immedialtly by bhamini sultans.
Similiar is the case with sathrapathi shivaji.His empire was blessed by none other than samartha ramdoss.Shivaji offered ramdoss his empire and Ramdoss gave the empire back to shivaji and his descendents.Guess what?That empire then never lost to mugals decisively.(Shivaji's capture and escape was before this)
Shambaji was captured and tortured and killed by aurangazeb.But it was after shivaji disowned shambaji as his son.And when aurangazeb came invading deccan maratha empire went into guerilla warfare under shambaji's son Rajaram.He hid in senji fort and there aurangazeb bought all his forces.But the war lasted and lasted,aurangazeb lost it and went back empty handed.
In 1710 maratha forces entered red fort and flew the saffron flag there.Bahadurshah,the then sultan and aurangazeb's son was humiliated and was reduced to paying tributes to maratha.Thus samartha Ramdoss's dream was fulfilled.Shivaji's dynasty completed it's mission.
Interestingly when maratha's lost out to british adn surrendered their empires the dynasty had changed.Peshwa's ruled maratha empire then.
Wow!! This is really an interesting piece of article. On the lighter side, if 'Amma' knows about this, all aging temples in Tamil Nadu will be renovated (;-)))
Pals, That was just a joke. Anybody pls don't take it serious ;-)))
Hi Priya, Its really interesting , but i didn't find any connection of huge temples with war,surely we need a good clarification, on cholas, what went wrong? anybody can?
The name priya_vaishnava is very interesting:-)). The article was also interesting - but things did not happen that way. Each dynasty had to witness unbelievable rises and falls. I'll just quote 2 examples : * Towards the end of parantaka I reign, many territories were lost and parantaka himself lost two of his sons in battles. Pandiyas/rashtrakutas were on the rise * Narasimha's son parameswarawarman almost fled out of kanchi during one of the battles. His period did not saw great rise of pallavas.