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Lesser known historical characters in PS - Parthivendravarman
Hi all, There was a long, speculative discussion on the same grounds on Facebook. I've cross-posted these discussions there, and I'm doing the same for those discussions here: Venkatesh Ramakrishnan kalki made ample use of the freshly fo…

Comment by trshash84 June 2013 permalink
Languages know to Rajarajacholan

Comment by trshash84 June 2013 permalink
Languages know to Rajarajacholan
I'm sure he had several translators in his employ anyway. So, he may not have known all of those. Even Telugu to converse with his Telugu son in law is not essential; take a look at European royalty marrying into other European royalty without…

Comment by trshash84 June 2013 permalink
Languages know to Rajarajacholan
Sanskrit, definitely... He was a king, and was probably educated in Sanskrit. Others, I assume he'd have known the Telugu of his time. Maybe Sinhalese, and as you say, Pali. No harm assuming that he knew them for a novel, I guess... Shash

Comment by trshash84 May 2013 permalink
Re-name the Chennai Airport as "Rajaraja Cholan International Airport"
Here's the panel in question: http://poetryinstone.in/lang/en/2008/10/28/a-masterpiece-of-sculptural-beauty-from-gangai-konda-cholapuram.html The side-sculptures depict the story of Chandesa - the cows, the milking, the abishekams and the cutt…

Comment by trshash84 May 2013 permalink
Rajendra Cholas wars
Definitely before the 25th regnal year, since the Esalam plates mention the city and the temple. Probably soon after the time of the northern expedition, given the name of the place - no point calling it Gangaikonda, without kondifying gangai... I…

Comment by trshash84 March 2013 permalink
1000 year old temple in Ponparappi about 15 km away from Gangai Konda Cholapuram - towards Sendurai-
Dear Bhuvana, Why don't you upload the pictures that you have to Picasa/Flickr/wherever and we can take a look. Sometimes, iconographic details can provide clues... Shash

Comment by trshash84 February 2013 permalink
Request for Details - Kulothunga Cholan
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RARE ATHARVAVEDA MANUSCRIPT RETURNS HOME IN CD-ROM
Interesting, but I doubt that it would take 154 CDs to hold even the largest of palm leaf manuscripts. That's 105 GB! For comparison, my entire photo library, consisting of thousands of 14 MP raw images is probably around 70 or 80 GB. A 14 MP i…

Comment by trshash84 January 2013 permalink
World's oldest language Tamil? - Interesting fact
Small correction - the root of Sanskrit is not Avestan, rather Sanskrit and Avestan share a common root that's often called proto-Indo-Aryan. which itself has another postulated root called proto-Indo-European. Even that's not really true…

Comment by trshash84 January 2013 permalink
Tamil Heritage Kutcheri 2012 -- Indian Paintings: A Tour of 10,000 Years -- Dec 25 to 30th (10 - 12
It's also possible that he did see the consecration - as a younger person - maybe a child or young adult, and sang about it later... It's not necessary for him to be RRC's guru to have seen the consecration of the temple... Shash

Comment by trshash84 December 2012 permalink
Raja Raja Cholan Committed suicide says Illayaraja in Kumudam
Apparently time travel (for Rajendra to be born *before* the building of the big temple) included for free... All of this just goes to show that someone who's an expert in one field may not have any clue in others; in general, it's better…

Comment by trshash84 December 2012 permalink
Millionaires unveil Pakistan’s artefact smuggling secrets
Extremely sad, but not even mildly surprising... "He does not believe what he does should be treated as a crime, but that > the government should buy artefacts at market value." The old cognitive dissonance! They all try to justify w…

Comment by trshash84 August 2012 permalink
BOOK : "MIRROR OF TAMIL AND SANSKRIT" / Some thoughts on Dr Nagaswamy’s book
"I have not read his book - but wish to read it soon, and so do not know exactly what he has said on Brahmi connection." No, you're doing it wrong. Reading comes first. Review comes later. Disagreement is last... I'll comment f…

Comment by trshash84 July 2012 permalink
Udayar Kovil - Papanasam Taluk, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu
Yikes! I think I last saw those colours in my three-year-old niece's toy box! And there seems to have been an eater of stucco works let loose in the complex... Nothing tenth-century about it anymore; it's just a 21st century thing with 1…

Comment by trshash84 July 2012 permalink
Influence of Vedic tradition on Tamil culture by Dr. R Nagasamy
Hi, On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:35 PM, rajendhracholan

Comment by trshash84 July 2012 permalink
Influence of Vedic tradition on Tamil culture by Dr. R Nagasamy
Hi all, We must not make the mistake of argument from authority; Dr. Nagaswamy makes an argument based on some evidence. We should look at that evidence objectively. We must not make the mistake of argument from ideology; Dr. Nagaswamy makes an ar…

Comment by trshash84 July 2012 permalink
Question regarding occurrence of the term 'panchayat'
Hmm, I'd have thought it'd go back all the way to the Janapadas and probably the Indus Valley... Or more to the point, to the formation of the first villages, wherever that was... Large kingdoms can't have formed first. It must have …

Comment by trshash84 June 2012 permalink
Earliest inscription in Malayalam in Edakal Cave - Iravatham Mahadevan
To answer that, we first need an answer to the more basic question - what separates a language and a dialect. When do we consider to dialects to have become different languages? Shash

Comment by trshash84 June 2012 permalink
Earliest inscription in Malayalam in Edakal Cave - Iravatham Mahadevan
Or are both questions misplaced? How do you define when one language begins and the other ends? If, for example, you say "Malayalam is an off-shoot of Tamil", at what point in history do you say "now it's Malayalam, not Tamil an…

Comment by trshash84 June 2012 permalink
Ground Penetrating Radar
More important than either hardware or software is expertise. These images are complicated to manipulate, even when you have the right software (which isn't such a problem for me - I can at least help with access). The trouble is getting someo…

Comment by trshash84 May 2012 permalink
Solar and Lunar magnetic stones atop Thittai temple near Tanjore?
I wonder if we'd be allowed to examine... I won't rule out a possibility I haven't seen, but I'm definitely suspicious of anything that's claimed to be a lunar, solar or planetary magnet! But Sankar's explanation soun…

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Ground Penetrating Radar

Comment by trshash84 May 2012 permalink
Raja Asoka , did he look like this ?
That's better! :) That's definitely Maurya, I think... Chubby faces and turbans... But why is it identified as Ashoka? Any inscriptions/evidence? Shash

Comment by trshash84 April 2012 permalink
Raja Asoka , did he look like this ?
Sorry, but link doesn't work... :( Shash

Comment by trshash84 April 2012 permalink
Tidal Waves that destroyed regions of Ancient Tamil Nadu
Sir, The reason I ask these questions is that there's no geological evidence for a massive land mass south of India. At best, a few coastal areas may have been submerged. Not even the most powerful tsumani can sink an entire continent. So, whe…

Comment by trshash84 April 2012 permalink
Please protest this unkindly act
This one has been doing the rounds for a while; it was on Facebook a few days back... Personally, I take the opposite view of most people in the group. My thoughts are already known to some, but let me elaborate a bit here. I'm not trying to b…

Comment by trshash84 April 2012 permalink
Tidal Waves that destroyed regions of Ancient Tamil Nadu
Sir, About Kumarikkodu and Adiyarkkunallar's commentary, my question is this: Can we really trust a commentary that was made a thousand years after an epic that was made a thousand (at least) years after the fact? He seems to be reading a who…

Comment by trshash84 April 2012 permalink
DID YOU KNOW ??
This is why criminal law is best left in the hands of lawyers and judges who know the difference between premeditated murder, self defence, following orders, collateral damage, accidental death and crimes of passion. To talk about such topics in &q…

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DID YOU KNOW ??

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