Of late the 7aam arivu promos have created lot of enthu in media and most c hannels in Hindi, Telugu are also showing the promo and discussing some tit bit info on Bodi dharma.
We were earlier comparing kanthalur Salai with shaolin temple but now it lo= oks a Pallava Prince started Shaolin temple.
Dr Padmavati was refering to these acadmeys and admn training institutes an d were having control over the administration of the Tamilnadu ( Trirajya vivaharam - trirajya must be Chera, Pandya and Pallava or Chola.)
The Kanchi kadigai inncident was also narrated by Dr Padmavati on they going to kamboja to choose a scuccessor to Rajasimha.
The Kanchi Kadigai also trained Mayura Sarman who later became a kadamba king ( Mayura Sarman became Mayura Varman - Brahma Kshatrya). Mayuravarman took revenge for the insults he got in kanchi by defeating Kanchi.
There are recorded epigraphs of him on his victory over kanchi and there seems to be some sanskrit works are also on this subject.
Now a Pallava Prince in Shaolin temple? 6th C.AD.We know that one Pallava Prince was in Kamboj and started ruling that place. Nadivaraman Pallavamalla is from that branch.( again Kamboj is a mistry )
Now Pallava connection to Budhism? Mahendra was jain.
Also we have an epigraph of Rajasimha patronising a ajivika sect saint.
Happened to watch a few mins of the program about 7m arivi sometime last week. The director Murugadoss was saying thta, Bodhi Dharma was 'WANTEDLY' erased from the minds of tamils (thittamitu maraikkapatirukirar). I feel this should be a baseless allegation just to give more hype to the movie. They were repeatedly saying, we can take 10 movies out of his life, but never quoated anything about Bodhi Dharma other than saying he is a tamil who went to China and taught Kung fu.
And our discussions are also stopping there. Do we really know about this person or is there really info to take 10 movies out of this person????