> The box is worshipped with lotus flowers. Once in 12 > years ( something like Mahamaham concept) they take it > on procession, open and do some pooja.
dear Uma kalki must have seen it. he describes the peheraath function in ps actually there is a variation in the name of the festival.
most sources point to the kalinga princess. the pandyans had little to do with it except for stealing it.I ll get the details soon
know what. total peace prevailed for the first time in lanka in the year the tooth was in madurai.the lankans behaved themselves. have you been to sigiriya. why dont you tell us about the large frescoes there.
had a feeling I visited the sigiriya palace chola history cannot be studied alone. we have to study their contemprories too to learn what their world was like. perhaps the sinhalese were the closest independent kingdom to cholas( they had half their territory till rajendra). so a srilankan visit is a must to see what the foes of cholas were like. and like that there is an arab fort after mahabalipuram. most propably what the arabs used to bring in their horses for the muvendar.I intend visiting that next week.