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The Mystery behind the Seven Pagodas of South

Introduction If we go back and see the history of tamizhan we thamizhans could see we are good architects and artists. Arts and sculptures were at its peak during the Pallavas and Cholas period. In this blog let us see the truth behind the seven pagodas of the south. Seven pagodas is the nickname to the coastal south Indian city of Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram. The fact is that there were six other temples along with shore temple in Mahabalipuran built by the pallava king Narasimhavarman II which stands at the shore of bay of bengal.The Italian merchant Gasparo Balbi was the first to refer the term 'Seven Pagodas'. The other references were from Alexander Hamilton in 1744, Pierre Sonnerat. Pierre Sonnerat states that it would be the oldest temple on the coromandel coast. However there are no enough evidences to prove it. The reason behind the name seven pagodas was that there were seven temples including the Shore temple.But, due to erosion and floods it went inside the sea...
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The land of tamils - Kumari Kandam

Introduction Tamizhan is the first race of Humans who originated on the hue enormous sunken land of Kumari Kandam.Kumari Kandam refers to the lost continent of Tamil civilization which is the oldest civilization in the world. An inscription says''Kal thondri mann thondraa kaalathe mun thondri mootha kudi thamizh kudi". This means the Tamil civilization existed in the world even before sand was born out of stone. It is also known as Lemuria. The concept of Lemuria was popularized by the English zoologist Phillip Sclater. Multiple ancient and medieval Tamil and Sanskrit works contain legendary accounts of lands in South India being lost to the ocean.  There were three Tamil sangams which flourished here. First Sangam flourished in the city of Thenmadurai for 4,400 years, attended by 549 poets. The Second Sangam flourished in the city of kapatapuram for 3,700 years, attended by 59 poets. These both cities were"seized by the ocean", resulting in loss of all the ...
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Keezhadi Excavation

Introduction In Tamil Nadu there are only two major archaeological sites. One of it is the village of Kodumanal in Erode district. The other one is the village of keezhadi in Sivaganga district. Keezhadi has been specified in many of the sangam texts of Tamil. This village of keezhadi is on the banks of river vaigai. In keezhadi the excavation was done on the elevated land of Pallisandhai Thidal. The findings here shows the ancient and the sangam lifestyle of tamizhans. Till now two phases of excavation have been completed.The archaeological team was divided into 3 teams and 43 pits were dug. There they found  the damaged walls, basement of the houses, wells, broken pots, women ornaments etc. All there dates back to sangam era. This place is predicted to be as perumanallur which is the old Madurai and capital of Pandya's before moving to present day Madurai. It is a surprising fact that the present day Madurai was actually a forest called Kadamba Vanam. The people from perumana...
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