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Account of the Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers
During our dec visit to Mamallapuram, the ASI gentleman was showing us the newly discovered temple (skanda temple). ASI is actually expecting the existance of temples along the coast line right from saluvankuppam all the way to shore temples. Th…

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Raajarajeswaram Interpretation centre unveiled
Dear SPS Very good coverage. As rightly said this is a good beginning with scope for improvement. The first scholar to identify chola paintings was Prof.S.K.Govindasamy of annamalai univ. You might have seen his pic I believe. We will take it f…

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Account of the Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram By William Chambers
Dear saminathan The account is most interesting. I just browsed through the file - yet to read in detail. I'll get back on this subject after reading the entire file Thanks a lot for posting the same. Yr blog photos are also very interesti…

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Book on Kaveri
Hi Venkat.K Are you talking about a book titled kaveri by Dr.Y Subbarayalu ? > Dear Sir, > It is with us.Price Rs .450 and we are giving it for > Rs.300 + packing and forwarding charges.You may send

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Idangai and Valangai divisions :: Transition from RRC to Later Colas/pandya
> Those Warriors capable of using them were either Right Handed or > Left handed, but the word RIGHT HAND surfaced in RRC's period. In > the 11th Century, there was Tax collected @ ONE PANAM per Bow from > both RIGHT HAND and LE…

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Converts to Islam
> These Muslims were Traders from Arabia - Sonagars - who got settled > in this route. This is a very important info. My question is how many of the muslims we find today in tn trace back their roots to arabian traders and how many are c…

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Converts to Islam
> That is how Thanjai was spared .. > Dear SPS Kudavoil says that the damage to big temple was caused during this invations. You are saying that thanjai was not in their scope. I am slightly confused here. Kindly elaborate G

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Converts to Islam
> thats when the idol is taken to delhi and the thulaka nachiar episode > of fiction Do you mean to say that the entire thulikka nachiyar episode is a fiction ? There are day to day practices in srirangam temple which affirm a close conne…

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Idangai and Valangai divisions :: Transition from RRC to Later Colas/pandya
> DR.SUBBARAYALU has taken up the studies and comprised them in 4 > segments in his Book Kaveri, (Pannpattu Veliyittagam, - Student Edn What an informative mail SPS ! I could not understand much of it in first casual glance. Need more tim…

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Converts to Islam
> I think malik is made to be more of a monster than he really was. Dear venkat Was it malik who attacked srirangam temple ? or was it during the second plunder ?

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
> Tiruparankundram speaks of Sundara Pandian's insccriptions. > Srivilliputhur speaks of a Donee from Sundara Pandia who confirms > his grant at the occasion when SP performed his Vijaya / > Veerabishekam in Nandhipuram. sps >…

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Saga of Sikandhaa Malai - Thiruparamkundram
> important thing to note is both malik kafur and khusrau khan were > hindu converts. the former was a gujarathi and the latter a rajput. Oh Dear ! Is it true venkat ? What an unfortunate thing ! Conversion is no issue - it is upto the indi…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
> > It is said TIRUVENGADU BUDHAN (MERCURY) IS ALSO PANDYA MURUGA ! SPS My exposure to pandiyan murugas is almost zero but I have seen some pallava and chola murugas as well as the muruga in kudaivarai in trichy. Features : * Senni - MUS…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
> Whenever I hear of Thiruparankundram, what I recall is the famous > Sundara Pandya inscription Dear SPS I am not sure about thirupparamkundram inscription. The atrur kottathu nandhipuram appears in srivilliputhur inscription. Kudavoil …

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Varalaaru.com Feb Issue launched
> Should we think of some action plan as well If I may opine, we should try to make a collective representation from all scholars to get a presidential award to Dr.Iyravatham G

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Hi Venkat I was hoping to get some info on a varaahamoorthy statue there. The nataraja is beautiful as quoted I believe. No detailed information is available on the sculptures. A must visit during Madurai trip. Requires ASI permission as it is n…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Dear venkat Yes, "Paramkundram over the ages" is a topic for research. We will collect as much as we can and consolidate everything. It's been a very interesting discussion so far. Please note that aanaimalai and paramkundram were…

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Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Here's the inscriptional evidence from South Indian Inscriptions vol XIV

Comment by seshadrigokul February 2006 permalink
Thiruparamkundram : The "Non" muruga temple
Dear venkat I'm in total sync with you on the murugan temple and parankundram connection since sangam times. Interesting questions are : * Is the parankundram near madhurai the paramkundram of ancient times ? (I think the current madurai is…

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Syllabus for the inscription reading course
> Unless we become a registered society, we can not take > up such tasks beyond certain level. How are we on making Ponniyin selvan varalatrup peravai a registered body ?

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Syllabus for the inscription reading course
> Hi, > > I thought of the following syllabus for the > inscription reading course:- Overall very good suggestions. Recording the proceedings of the class and posting on Net recommended

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INSCRIPTIONS READING
> Great! This is the need of the hour. We need more people who can read > inscriptions from temples all over Tamilnadu. We need a big battalion > of volunteers and big funding to bring maximum number of Kalvettu > into readable histor…

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Moderator
Dear all I spoke to SPS to settle this once and for all. The following is what seems to emerge : * An executive body consisting of the following people : - SPS - Mrs.Seetha (Sophia)(Madam, Including your name without consulting you. Apologies) …

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SPS and Krupa
> I am not competent. Let the Comp Wiz handle. Dear SPS All computer related things will be handled by krupa. You are expected to provide a moral leadership - (which you are already providing, by the way)....Pl consider

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What letters are these?
Dear saminathan > i have a novice question.Is the "Five Rathas" created > by Narashima Pallavan or Rajashimma Pallavan. > > > Please excuse me if my question doesn't make sense. > Your question makes absolute s…

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Kundarakudi Temple-Pandyas, RR Inscriptions..
Dear all Dr.Jaybee's email raised interesting thoughts in my mind. Shankara naarayana form seems to be a very early form of worship - which is a surprise to me. I was of the impression that this was an integration effort initiated at a late…

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Tanjore Inscriptions
Dear Prabhakar Welcome to PS group. One thing that surprises even scholars is the way stones have been dressed in periyakoil and the clarity / beauty with which inscriptions have been etched out. It is one of the highly recommended places for a …

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Kundarakudi Temple-Pandyas, RR Inscriptions..
Dear Raj A very detailed study of kundrakkudi temples were undertaken by RMHRC / Dr.Kalaikkovan. It is available in varalaaru magazine published by the centre. I myself have visited kundrakkudi several years back - and like you said - bothered …

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This virus/worm is the culprit - W32.Blackmal.E@mm
Dear sri and kannan Thanks for the update. Pl try to run the following free virus removal tool from semantec http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blackmal@mm. removal.tool.html (if URL is broken, cut and paste the entire l…

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Dinamalar article
Very good and interesting info Thanks Muruganandam

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