Pallava General

Paranjothi (Siruthondar)

                                       Paranjothi is a army general of Pallava king Narashima Varman I. He is one of the most legendary hero in the history of Pallava army. He is the one who lead the Pallava king army to Badami and defeated the force of Pullikesi King of Chalukya. He is also one of the 63 Nayanars(one who workship Lord Siva and compose poems on him). He was from Thiruvarur(Current Tamilnadu). He entered Kanchi the capital city of Pallava's to learn from Tirunavukkarasar. But seeing his bravery and strength he was chosen as the army general to lead the great army.

                                       Paranjothi in his childhood days lost his father and his mother and his uncle took care of him. In the young age he was interested only in the fighting games but his mother who was afraid of his interest in fighting asked him to quit it but he wasn't ready and got struck ed up in fights. So his mother thought if he continues in his fights like this then he will also perish like his(Paranjothi's) father, who was one of the solider in the local king's army. Afraid of this she sent him to pallava capital just to learn from Teacher but latter he came as the army general of entire Pallava city and terrorized the enemies.

                                        He under the command of Narashima Varma lead a battalion of army and defeated the forces of Pullikesi who killed the father of Narashima Varman I and his army fought a fiercive battle near Kanchi and was victorious. From then all his battle led to the ultimate victory. so he and his army men's marched a battalion of army to Badami the capital city of Pullikesi and destroyed him, his fort, army and burned the city to ashes.But after seeing all the sorrows that took place in battle he felt bad and came out from the army and started living a piece full life as Siruthondar.

                                         As Siruthondar he helped the other saints and people who workshiped Lord Shiva. One day he invited a devote and pleased him to come to his home for offering hospitality to him. He also promised him that he would cook foods wanted by him accepting this request devote came to his home. The Devote was god himself (but disguised). The devote asked Siruthondar that he needs a child to eat, Siruthondar on hearing this took his child and cooked him and also the god asked him to eat along with him so he also came to dine up with him but the devote asked his son also to dine,hearing this Siruthondar said he is can't no more hear anything but the devote insisted. so, he came out of his home and called his son. He saw his son coming towards him and suddenly everything including the cooked meat was vanished and the devote revealed his disguise and he was stunned by the appearance of the devote who was the god Shiva himself came to test him. Then blessed him and his family too. so from then on he continued his service of dinning the saints and other workshipers of Shiva.

History From South India

Kulothunga Cholan I

                                  The Kulothunga was the name give to Anabhaya Cholan who was crowned as the king of later cholans. The Kulothunga was the son born to Raja Raja Narendra and Ammangai the daughter of Raja Rajendra. He was not the heir apparent to throne but still he caught the throne of cholas and ending the cycle of Vijayalaya chola. He was the might solider in the Eastern Chalukya and fought many battles side by side with Raja Rajendra and Rajathi Raja and also appointed as the viceroy of Eastern Chalukya.

                                    He waged wars with the Kalinga (modern Odisha) and won the war against them. This war was recorded as kalingathuparani. Which speaks about the kulothunga cholan asking his commander Karunakara Pallavan to destroy the Kalingam and free the Tamil Peoples who were imprisoned by the Bhemma (King of South Kalinga) and also to capture the Pallura Perunthurai Port which had many contacts with the Suvarnabhoomi (current Java, Sumatra). The commander chief is also noted as the hero in Kalingathuparani.

                                    He waged another war in Sumatra and won the kingdom of Sri Vijaya and also destroyed the pirates who were encouraged by the Sri Vijaya and stopped the pirates from looting goods that were send to the Tamil Nadu. He also had close contacts with the Chinese Song dynasty and also had close relation ship with the Greeks. He send emissaries to China and Rome and also send many gifts to them and also maintained a strong naval force by joining the hands with China.

                                    Kulothunga ascend to the throne during the critical time and maintained the empire. He made the empire to continue in its path, regained its glory and saved the empire from devastating. He waged war with Lanka where the rulers appointed by Cholan's turn against them and joined hands with Vijayabhahu he stationed a huge army and defeated the rebellion force and kept the Lanka under the Chola's control. He also waged war with Chalukyas and feared them. He also suppressed the rebellion started by the Pandyas and Chera. He also won the Vikramaditya of Chalukya(Initially but was defeated later).

                                     During his time the arts, architecture ,trade and commerce flourished in Chola country . He also changed his capital to Thiruvarur. He was also know as Madurantaka and Illamkondan along with his titles of Rajakesari Varman. Because of his might the Chola country withstood a 100 years and eventually in his end the Cholas lost a part of Lanka due to rebellion and had only North Lanka and in years they completely lost Lanka. Under his kingship the commander Karunkaran was appointed as the king of Kalinga. Soon after they waged war with North Kalinga and Defeated them and acquired their land too. The above is the territory that he managed.

Book Review

KiMu Kipi

                  The book KiMu Kipi is one of the best book which talks about the history and evolution of earth from the solid masses of rock to till now and this book also cover the information that Eve was the first to born in this world and the author tries to explain this with scientific facts. This particular book talks about the evolution and origin of species,Religion,war,crusades and it also talks about the civilization of the world. Also it speaks about the kings and the laws generated by them and also he tried to cover the epic of Egyptian civilization.

                The author has taken the book in a very interesting way and don't bore the readers with only facts. He also speaks about the humans travel to different part of world and how much years the humans took to travel(I wonder on this facts its extremely brilliant). This also speaks about the first formed law book by king and also about the clay tablets which is very interesting. The author speaks more about the Egyptian kings (perhaps he forgot  the other king??) and their mummification process.

                 Every information and facts about this books are very interesting. Author speaks about the drifting of land from Africa (and how it formed as the southern part of India) continent .He also speaks about the tectonic plate shift and other cool stuff but only one thing is disappointing in the author writing is he haven't given information about the Dravidian civilization.Which is very disappointing from the author. But on all the above this book is best to read and the facts are amazing. Must read book..

History of India From Tamil Nadu

Raja Rajendran
                    As of now i am going to write the historical incidents that took place in the periods of three ancient Tamil kings who ruled a major portion of India till Himalayas. This three great Tamil kings were called as muvendar and they are Chera, Chola and Pandaya. Here I am going to provide the information about the Chola kings first. In Chola's i am choosing the renowned king "Raja Rajendra Chola" who is also known as the "Vengaiyin Mainthan", "Mumudi Cholan","Raja kesari","Para kesari" and many more titltes.

                    I choose this Chola king because the there are not many books and novels fantasizing about this great king who is considered the "Alexander of South" and he is the one of the king who never lost a single battle to the enemy and was victorious as if he is the angel of victory. This great king did many wonders that their predeccsors failed to do so. He conquered the many place even "Raja Raja Cholan" failed to conquer in his life time.

                     The above is the portrait of great and might Rajendra Chola. This king has elongated the fame of India in South East Asia and even in other place like Java, Sumatra, Bali and Ellam (Sri Lanka).He fought countless battles with great Western Chalukyas and won numerous times and he is the one who took whole of Sri Lanka, the Sri Vijayam, Kadaram and Pegu now this place have various names but they are currently the Malaysia,Burma and Whole of Indonesia.

                     This Chola was know for treating his enemies and refugees with great respect and honour like Alexander did he won the enemies country and gibe those country to that king itself if he accepts to be his ally nation. He gave this concession to Pandayas and Cheras a numerous times. Only in this period the Pandyans were suppressed fully and their close war allies from Lanka was completely destroyed. Afterall this victories he bring back the "Mani Magudam" or "Crown" of Tamil Kings from Lankan which Lankan peoples not even ready to give to the Pandayas(Who own those crown).

                    This particular crown has specific history that god Indira gave that as a gift to one of the Pandaya king. The Pandayan due to fear of losing the crown gave it to Lanka which they refused to give and the great "Raja Rajendra" waged a war with the Lankan to get back the crown with the loss of 1 Lakh soldier and gave the crown to the Madurai itself making the crown as the king and appointing this son "Sundra Cholan" as the viceroy of Madurai.

                      He build a new city with shiva temple erected as same as "Big Temple" in Tanjore. He also constructed new city called "Gangai Konda Chola Puram" to celebrate his victory over northern India and defeat of all king till the West Bengal king Pala. He was supported by many chieftains like Palluvur king, Kodumballur king, Samburaivar, Mallai Maan and other. The commander who gave the victory to chola over northern Indian was "Arain RajaRajan" a prince from pallava kingdom. The battle to Kadaram led by "Ellango" prince of Kodumballur.

                      This is the map of Cholan king who had captured the most of south East asia and he had the most powerful naval army. In his naval army it seems there was three different war ships and he is one to find the sea water flow and transported teak from Burma. Where the teak woods were just dropped in to the sea and it automatically reaches the shores of Rameshwaram. This technique was found by watching the movement of sea tortoise moving in water and this is the reason why tortoise was embedded in their coins.

                        The above are the few details about the great king and I am trying to know more about this king still there are plenty of things about them. I salute to my great historical hero "Raja Rajendran".