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Jayantavarman
Jayantavarman (''r. c''. 654–670 CE), known in Tamil as Seliyan Sendan, was a Pandya ruler of early historic south India. He is best known for extending the Pandya rule to the Chera country (Kerala). He was succeeded by his son Maravarman Arikesari Parankusan. Names Jayantavarman (of the Smaller Sinnamanur Plates) is described as Seliyan Sendan in the Velvikkudi Grant. Sendan is the Tamil form of the Sanskrit name "Jayantan". The Velvikkudi Grant uses the Chera title "Vanavan" for Sendan. This probably signifies his victory over a Chera king (or the extension of the Pandya rule to the Chera country). Dates * K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (the first assumption) — c. 645–670 CE * K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (revised date) — c. 654–670 CE * T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar — c. 600–625 CE. * K. V. Raman — ascension year = 653 CE. * Noboru Karashima — c. 620–650 CE (or) c. 654–670 CE Life and career Jayantavarman was the son and successor of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arikesari Maravarman
Arikesari Maravarman (''r. c.'' 640–690 CE), also known as Parankusa, was a Pandya dynasty, Pandya king of early medieval south India. Arikesari's reign witnessed the beginning of the Pandya contest with the Pallava dynasty, Pallavas in the northern Tamil country. He probably entered into an alliance with Chalukya dynasty, Chalukyas (to the counter the Pallava dynasty, Pallavas). The Pandyas also came into collision with the Chera dynasty, Cheras ("Keralas") under his rule. Period Arikesari Maravarman was the successor of Jayantavarman, Seliyan Sendan (Jayantavarman), but it is not known for certain if he was Jayantavarman's son or not (most probably his son). * K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (the first assumption) - c. 670–710 CE * K. A. Nilakanta Sastri (revised date) - c. 670–700 CE * T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar - c. 640–670 CE *Noboru Karashima, Noburu Karashima - c. 650–700 CE (or) c. 670–700 CE * V. Vedachalam & A. Kalavathi - c. 640&ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avani Sulamani
Maravarman Avanisulamani (IAST: Avaniśūlāmani; ''r. c.'' 620–645 CE) was a Pandya ruler of early historic south India. He was the son and successor of Kadungon, who revived the Pandya dynastic power after the Kalabhra interregnum. Not much information is available about either of these kings. Velvikkudi Grant (a later copper-plate inscription) is the only source information about Avanisulamani. The grant praises the Pandya, claiming that he removed the common ownership of the Earth (by making it his own) and married the goddess of the flower (Lakshmi). Maravarman Avanisulamani was succeeded by his son Seliyan Sendan (Jayantavarman). Dates * K. A. Nilakanta Sastri — c. 620–645 CE. * T. V. Sadasiva Pandarathar — c. 600–625 CE. * Noboru Karashima was a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus in University of Tokyo, Japan. He also served as Professor Emeritus at the Taisho University, Japan. He was a prominent scholar of Asia in the studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velvikudi Inscription
The Velvikudi inscription is an 8th-century bilingual copper-plate grant from the Pandya kingdom of southern India. Inscribed in Tamil and Sanskrit languages, it records the renewal of a grant of the Velvikudi village to a brahmana by the Pandya king Nedunjadaiyan Varaguna-varman I alias Jatila Parantaka (r. c. 768—815 CE) in c. 769-770 CE. Date The grant was made in the third regnal year of the king Nedunjadaiyan (also transliterated as Neduncheliyan), whose reign is dated to c. 765–815 CE. The grant recorded in the inscription was probably made in 769-770 CE, but there is some controversy about its actual date. Physical features * The record is in form of ten copper plates, each measuring 27.5 x 8 cm. * The plates are held together by a thin copper ring, without a seal. * British Museum's ''Indian Charters on Copper Plates in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books'' (1975) states that these copper plates were found at Madakulam. Languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulabhara
Tulabhara, also known as Tula-purusha ( IAST: Tulāpuruṣa) or Tula-dana, is an ancient Hindu practice in which a person is weighed against a commodity (such as gold, grain, fruits or other objects), and the equivalent weight of that commodity is offered as donation. The Tulabhara is mentioned as one of the sixteen great gifts in the ancient texts, and is performed in several parts of India. Names The '' Atharvaveda''-'' parishishta'' uses the name "tula-purusha-vidhi" to describe the ceremony. The ''Matsya Purana'' calls it "tula-purusha-dana", while the ''Linga Purana'' calls it by various names such as "tula-purusha-dana", "tuladhirohana", "tularoha", and "tulabhara". Majority of the ancient inscriptions that record the ceremony are written in Sanskrit language; some of them are in Tamil and Kannada, and some later inscriptions also feature Telugu language. The early Sanskrit-Tamil inscriptions from Tamil Nadu and Sinhala-Tamil inscriptions from Sri Lanka used the name "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixteen Great Gifts
The sixteen great gifts (Sanskrit: Shodasha-Maha-dana; IAST: Ṣoḍaśa-Mahā-dāna) refers to a category of ritual donations mentioned in the Puranas, Puranic texts of ancient India. The most prominent of these donations include the tulapurusha, tula-purusha — weighing of a person and the donation of equivalent weight in gold, and hiranyagarbha (donation), hiranya-garbha — the donation of a golden pot. History The earliest inscriptions that mention the sixteen great gifts as a category date from the 8th century onward, but these great gifts have been described in the earlier literature, such as the ''Matsya Purana''. Some of these donations included in the category pre-date the concept of sixteen great gifts. For example, the ''Atharvaveda''-''parishishta'', composed in the 1st millennium BCE, describes tula-purusha, hiranya-garbha, and gosahasra. The section of the ''Matsya Purana'' that mentions the sixteen great gifts appears to have been composed during 550-650 CE. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kollidam River
The Kollidam (referred to as Coleroon in Colonial English) is a river in southeastern India. The Kollidam is the northern distributary of the Kaveri River as it flows through the delta of Thanjavur. It splits from the main branch of the Kaveri River at the island of Srirangam and flows eastward into the Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line betwee .... The distribution system in Kollidam lies at Lower Anaicut which is an island of river Kollidam. Heavy floods in 2005 necessitated the flood prevention works along the Kollidam river by the Public Works Department (PWD). References Rivers of Tamil Nadu Distributaries Tributaries of the Kaveri River Rivers of India {{India-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangalore
Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Kerala border, 297 km south of Goa. Mangalore is the state's only city to have all four modes of transport—air, road, rail and sea. The population of the urban agglomeration was 619,664 national census of India. It is known for being one of the locations of the Indian strategic petroleum reserves. The city developed as a port in the Arabian Sea during ancient times, and has since become a major port of India that handles 75 percent of India's coffee and cashew exports. It is also the country's seventh largest container port. Mangalore has been ruled by several major powers, including the Kadambas, Alupas, Vijayanagar Empire, Keladi Nayaks, and the Portuguese. The city was a source of contention between the British a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kochadaiyan Ranadhiran
Kochchadaiyan, known as Ranadhira, (Tamil: கோச்சடையான் ரணதீரன்)(''r. c.'' 700 – 730 AD) was a Pandya king of early medieval south India. He was the son and successor of Arikesari Maravarman (''r. c.'' 640 – 690 CE).Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. (1958, second ed.) ''A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar''. Madras, Oxford University Press. 165.Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. (1958, second ed.) ''A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar''. Madras, Oxford University Press. 149-50. The name of the king is famously omitted in the Tamil portion of the Larger Sinnamanur Plates.Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. (1929) ''The Pandyan Kingdom.'' London, Luzac and Company. 55-56. Chadaiyan extended the Pandya influence into the Kongu country. The result this foray does not appear to have been permanent as the Kongu country is said to have been conquered by his successor also. He also suppressed a revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sluice
Sluice ( ) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered as a bottom opening in a wall. Sluice gates are one of the most common hydraulic structures in controlling flow rate and water level in open channels such as rivers and canals. They also could be used to measure the flow. A water channel containing a sluice gate forms a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. It can also be an open channel which processes material, such as a River Sluice used in gold prospecting or fossicking. A mill race, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channeling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry. They are also used in wastewater treatment plants and to recover minerals in minin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiranyagarbha
Hiraṇyagarbha (Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भः ; literally the 'golden womb', poetically translated as 'universal womb') is the source of the creation of universe or the manifested cosmos in Vedic philosophy. It finds mention in one hymn of the Rigveda (Mandala 10, RV 10.121), known as the Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta, suggesting a single creator deity (verse 8: ', Griffith: "He is the God of gods, and none beside him."), identified in the hymn as Prajapati, Prajāpati. The concept of the "golden womb" is first mentioned in the Vishvakarma Sūkta (RV 10.82.5,6) which picturized the "primeval womb" as being rested set upon the navel of Vishvakarman. This imagery was later transferred to Vishnu and Surya. The Upanishads, Upanishad calls it the Soul of the Universe or Brahman, and elaborates that Hiraṇyagarbha floated around in emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke into two halves which formed the ''Svarga'' and the ''Prithvi, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantha Alphabet
The Grantha script ( ta, கிரந்த எழுத்து, Granta eḻuttu; ml, ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, granthalipi) is a South Indian script, found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Originating from the Pallava script, the Grantha script is related to the Tamil and the Vatteluttu scripts. The modern Malayalam script of Kerala is a direct descendant of the Grantha script. The Southeast Asian and Indonesian scripts such as Thai and Javanese respectively, as well as South Asian Tigalari and Sinhala scripts are derived or closely related to Grantha through the early Pallava script. The Pallava script or Pallava Grantha, emerged in the 4th century CE and was used until the 7th century CE, in India. This early Grantha script was used to write Sanskrit texts, inscriptions on copper plates and stones of Hindu temples and monasteries. It was also used for classical Manipravalam – a language that is a blend of Sanskrit and Tamil. From it evolved Middle Granth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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