It was just an article in fun.But i did not mean their dynasties did not lose a battle.I meant a war.Even Lord Krishna lost many wars with jarasandha.A decisive war settles the issue once for all.For example second world war,war between abarajitha and aditha chola,war between pulikesi and narashima pallava etc.
Parameswaravarman lost the battle and ran to lower chalukya country (andhra),raised an army and defetaed vikramathithya chalukya.Legend has that vikramathithya chalukya ran away like a begger wearing torn clothes.
In the war at thalaikottai ,rajathitha chola died a warriors death after being cheated by boothuka.But ponniyin selvan says cholas ran away and pazhuvettaraya regrouped them and stopped rashtrakoodas after kanchi.Anyway my article wasnt scientific or research based.Just wild guesses.
Gokul .. with his varalaaru.com association - is bound to dip these things in the acid - no doubt.
Mr. Srihari has sent so many mails on dyansties and contemporaries and dumped so much of materials which we did not analyse at all. I see now freshers taking more interest in these matters.
It may be useful if the details in Srihari's mails are compiled like a Tender document - with comparisons of contemporaries - we should be able to look at History in an organised way than at fragments.
May be varalaaru.com team also should take a closer look on these things.
I also know it is easy to say that certain things did not happen than to say certain things did happen. In such cases, the burden of proving vests with the person who put forward the postulates.
Rather we can view things to generate more options ..
Some one from the Group can comparise and state :: how many months it took to have our first 100 members, how many to 300 to 400 and how many from 400 to 460. I think we are drawing more members of late ... varallaru of PS group !
When some of us spoke to Dr. Nagaswamy about a year back - he suggested us to work on the ONE RUPEE coins issued by the Government - to get the Varallaru of coins for about 50 years.. Of course it was not appealing to me at that point of time - since I was obsessed with Chozhas History.
Last Sunday when I happened to see the song sequence "Naan aanaiyittal.. " by Dr.MGR in Engaveettupillai, it rolled back Varalaaru of last 30 years in Tamilnadu right in front of my eyes!
Likewise, member seems to be having special eyes for varallaru ...
When it comes to krishna losing battles to Jarasandha, the tactics krishna used was noteworthy. The first time when Jarasandha was out to capture krishna to avenge the death of kamsa's death, krishna and balarama fled overnight from mathura. Jarasandha was forced to follow him with his army. But the flight of the army was very stressful, and krishna used guerilla warfare and with the help of a garuda tribes, actually overpowered Jarasandha.
In the second attempt Jarasandha, took the help of Kalayavana ( from North west of India) and Rukmi. This time krishna again fled but with the whole Yadava group and Dwaraka was constructed. KalaYavana was killed in the course of the flight by some Sage.
So flight is necessary not cowardice. Krishna split these powerful kings from their army and individually overpowered them. The way jarasandha killed itself tells it.
I think Iam dragging this a bit too much. But your mail just made me think of Krishna. Some time back I was reading a book by Munshi. But I also agree that these instances are not scientific and includes author's guesses.
When it comes to krishna losing battles to Jarasandha, the tactics krishna used was noteworthy. The first time when Jarasandha was out to capture krishna to avenge the death of kamsa's death, krishna and balarama fled overnight from mathura. Jarasandha was forced to follow him with his army. But the flight of the army was very stressful, and krishna used guerilla warfare and with the help of a garuda tribes, actually overpowered Jarasandha.
In the second attempt Jarasandha, took the help of Kalayavana ( from North west of India) and Rukmi. This time krishna again fled but with the whole Yadava group and Dwaraka was constructed. KalaYavana was killed in the course of the flight by some Sage.
So flight is necessary not cowardice. Krishna split these powerful kings from their army and individually overpowered them. The way jarasandha killed itself tells it.
I think Iam dragging this a bit too much. But your mail just made me think of Krishna. Some time back I was reading a book by Munshi. But I also agree that these instances are not scientific and includes author's guesses.
Dear Priya Just a clarification Rajathitha was killed in Thakkolam not Thalaikottai and the chola army did retreat but held them at a lower level the pazhuvettarayars were part of the cheiftains who helped Arinjaya hold them Back Atleast that is Kalkis version