Venkatesh, Pavithra, Swetha, Suganya, Satish, Plastic Chandra, Madan, Muruganandam, Sivaram Kannan Sankaran and me attended.
Main attraction was ASI Sriram.
After a quick run thorough in current topics of Magudagamam, 32nd yr RRC and Ganapathy Sthapathis publications, ASI Sriram explained on Thanjavur paintings - architectrual specialities of big temple and discussed Elephanta paintings and Ajantha paintings..
Sridhar was kind enough to call from the UK and spoke to every one ! It was very nice to know of enthusiasm.
Lasted for about 2 hrs.
Venkat and majority of participants felt more of Ponniyinselvan need to be discussed to encourage new members.
Sivaram Kannan intimated that he is going through the achieves which is very much interesting.
Pavithra was congratulated for her accomplishments.
> Dear Friends, > > Venkatesh, Pavithra, Swetha, Suganya, Satish, Plastic Chandra, > Madan, Muruganandam, Sivaram Kannan Sankaran and me attended. > > Main attraction was ASI Sriram.
> sps
All,
Mr.SRiram is an asset to us. For his stature, he is so humble,we all were mesmerized by him. he was patiently talking about various subjects and clarified many of our doubts. Everything cannot be said here..just a gist of some interesting topics...
- While Gokul was lecturing on the technique of how we can picturise the paintings, in the ASI hall on 30th Jan 2005, Sriram was alreayd taking the pictures with the same technique and when Gokul finished his lectrue, Sriram was finished with his 2 weeks(?) effort of taking the photos. Even now the details are not disclosed as he says he is still analyzing it. He literally called it 'rendu varusha yogam'. what words to use? Great sir.
- A lot about the paintings was told by him. I leave the details to him, so that we can hear from the horse's mouth when the work is done.
- He too strongly belives that the painting is of RRC. Main point was, the characteristics of Cheraman peruman and this figure is entirely different and so he surely is not Cheraman peruman.
- He strongly says that the avudayar in big temple is of single stone which he himself has personally seen. There is a crack formed in the avudayar due to the beams falling on it due to pressure of the weight. Even if the crack is considered to be different pieces, he has analyzed the size and shape of the pieces and its impossble to take them through the entrance. This is totally against what Dr.Kkvn claims in his varalaaru.com article this month.
- He said the mistakes done in big temple were rectified in GKC and quoted quite a few examples for this.
A lot more which cannot be shared in a short mail.
Sriram sir, you are really an asset to us. We cherished the time. Thanks for spending your valuable time with novice like us. If i have quoted you and your points more than what should i have, extremely sorry, its just out of the joy of learning from you.
When we were feeling that we have learned enough to make a debate in this group, he has made us to think twice now....we surely are half baked with no information at all. :)
. He literally called it 'rendu varusha > yogam'. what words to use? Great sir.
nee bovonto kudindhunde gavanikkala.
actually he said redu varsha yaagam. which is actually better.
whereas sriraman would always be stressing on the need for common sense in this field( which is very uncommon he used to say) what we all fet was his immense patience and dedication in his work.
he has in the past never rushed to the audience after a new discovery let alone a concept or a idea. made me happy that such people still exist in this world where people are media hungry for even half baked ideas
To share my thoughts about the meet on 02-09. The meeting nearly lasted 4 hours, from 5.45 to 9.30. This is the first time that I am meeting most of the other membersof the group. I was really amazed at the amount of interest and knowledge the group members have with the Periyakoil. I have been to periya koil for almost all of my birthdays and Tamil New year days but still blind to all the details they were talking about(pity me!!!!!).
Sriraman sir shared his archelogical experience. To me it felt like listening from senior Jones of Indiana jones and the last crusade. I would never miss another oppurtunity to meet him and really excited about the bangalore trip planned this weekend with him.
During the dicussion when it turned towards how british managed the army here( few hundred of their men and thousands of indians in the troops), Swetha commented that they are koolipadai. I drew parallel to the IT scenario in indiatoday, which are similar to the kooliopadai of preindepence days.