Quite some time back, we were discussing about that chinese/foreign face in brahadeeswarar temple...illa?
adhu Chinese-um illayaam, British-um illayaam. Menaka-nu Thiruchchi-la orththanga irukkaanga, MA History padikkaraanga. avanga sameebaththula idhai paththi oru paper submit panni irukkaanga.
adhula yenna solraanganna, andha nabar oru Dutch-nu solraanga. maelum, indha mugam oru "idaichcherugal"num solraanga... Stucco-vaam. Ragunaatha naayakkar amaichchadhunnu solraanga (remember that Govinda Deekshadhar?).
Mr. Deivamani Rafael padikka kuduththaar andha paper-ai yengakitta. Kamal-kitta irundhu adhai naan kalavaadittane. I have typed the entire content as it is.....and given below. This is a very interesting article. She very beautifully rejects the previous theories about that foreigner.
Moreover, it is sort of "thamizh history in a nutshell, interestingly", the period being from 10th century and 13/16th century. Bore-ey adikkaadhu konjam kooda.. neengaley padichchu paarunga.
(vaiththiyar ayya... romba busy poala irukkey? Time irundha, andha kadaisi part-ai mattum konjam translate panni inga post pannuveengala, so that persons without thamizh/TISCII font can also read that article?)
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