Great essays on kallanai and vandhiyadhevan... very interesting... May be the chozhas needed Rashtrakutas help to win over some battle....
But this is also interesting... what I read a few days back... Raajaadiththan was killed by Krishna III, surprisingly a rashtrakuta ruler.... Then why would paranthaka II would want to give his daughter in marriage to a rashtrakuta prince ??
One more intetersting news.... c & p from source.. it is known through inscriptions that at least from Uttama Chola's time, warriors were provided with waist coats of armor. Hence, one regiment was called Niyayam-Uttama-Chola-tterinda-andalakattalar. The so-called Uttama-Chola Madras Museum Plates, partly in Sanskrit and partly in Tamil, calls him madurai-konda which means that he won a war against the rulers of Madurai (Pandyas)....
So did "maduraanthakan" fight with pandyas ... ?? I raise this issue because i remember reading in one of the group documents that he never had a war with the pandyas...
gokul sir, please continue your info on Kalki's hero...
And reg Senthan Sir's issue, i will try to collect some info regarding the earthquake stuff, for i am doing my CE
> Then why would paranthaka II would want to give his > daughter in marriage to a rashtrakuta prince ??
This is very common. Parantaka I was a staunch enemy of pandiyas but had a "Tennavan mahadeviyar" as his queen. We are not sure what really happened but Vandhiyathevan may have belonged to a branch of rashtrakuta family which continued to support cholas. Think of keezhai chalukya and melai chalukyas in Rajaraja times and how cholas supported one branch
Reminds me of today's politics - surprisingly not much has changed !!
> > > Sanskrit and partly in Tamil, calls him madurai-konda > which means that he won a war against the rulers of > Madurai (Pandyas)....
This is a news to me - Can you pl tell me from which source you read this info ? He was always called madurantaka but never had a title "Madurai konda" to my knowledge. This actually changes many equations.
> gokul sir, please continue your info on Kalki's > hero...
You can drop the "sir" - Pl do read sweta's compilation of my earlier facts and fiction written almost a year and half ago. It is currently in files sec I believe
It is like Vasundhara Raje Scindia and Madhavrao Scindia being on different sides of the political spectrum I suppose. :) These things have been happening down the ages and am sure political expediency would have won over human relations more often than not!