Madura : Madurai was capital of the Pāṇdyās in 1st century. The Arthaśāstra mentions its fine textile products & its pearls which is why in 1311 it was sacked by Mohammedan barbarians who raped, converted, enslaved its people, destroyed their opulent temples & transported their holy sculptures to be installed into the steps of their barren holy places, the captured the booty consisted of 512 elephants, 5,000 horses, 500 maunds of diamonds, pearls, emeralds, rubies & other jewellery. Madurai regained its magnificence after becoming part of the Hindu empire of Vijayanagaram, & later of kingdoms of Nayaks. The most celebrated of its magnificent temples is the two-in-one temple of Sundereshwara & Meenākshi. [Based on Bhattacharya]
... ashes into the air. And the power of the letters and the mantras fell upon the demon, so that he died. This filled the people of Kaveripakam with joy. Later, when Tiruvalluvar came to the town of Madura, many people gathered together to hear him recite lines from his beautiful poem, and they were enchanted by the verses composed by the child from the Illupay grove: Hard it is to find in this world... the Kural." Tiruvalluvar placed his writings next to them, and the legend says that the bench at once shrank until it was just large enough to hold only the poem. So the proud and jealous poets of Madura tumbled into the water of the pool! Yes, the forty-nine envious men fell into the pool amid the lotuses. They came out dripping and ashamed. And from that day, all who speak the Tamil language have... have a great love for the Kural. Page 239 Children, do you find it sad that the demon of Kaveripakam was slain? And do you think it was a pity that the forty-nine bad poets of Madura fell into the water? In this world there are both good and evil things; and we should cherish and defend only the good, fight and undermine the evil. All wise men, like Tiruvalluvar the noble poet, know ...
... The first revolts in the South by local powers were in 1757. When Mohammed Ali, the Nawab of the Carnatic, supported by the Company, attempted to extend his control over the 'Madura' and 'Tinnevelly' districts, the poligars rebelled. The western poligars, led by Puli Thevar of Nelkatumseval, forged local alliances and then a grand alliance as they revolted against Mohammed Ali... Ali. Of necessity he had to seek assistance from the East India Company, and after many battles the revolt was finally put down in 1761 by Yusuf Khan, who had been nominated the Governor of 'Madura' and 'Tinnevelly' in 1758 by the British, despite Nawab Mohammed Ali's objections. The western confederacy was led by Nelkattumsevval which literally means 'Rice tribute paying place', but after its ...
... poets, was born in a small town called Kuruhur, in the southernmost region of the Tamil country—Tiru-nelveli (Tinnevelly). His father, Kari, was a petty prince who paid tribute to the Pandyan King of Madura. We have no means of ascertaining the date of the Alwar's birth, as the traditional account is untrustworthy and full of inconsistencies. We are told that the infant was mute for several years after ...
... plains, and for the rest we have the fanes and shrines of her later times, whether situated in temple cities and places of pilgrimage like Srirangam and Rameshwaram or in her great once regal towns like Madura, when the temple was the centre of life. It is then the most hieratic side of a hieratic art that remains to us. These sacred buildings are the signs, the architectural self-expression of an ancient ...
... was born in a small town called Kuruhur, in the southernmost region of the Tamil country — Tiru-nel-veli (Tinnevelly). His father, Kari, was a petty prince who paid tribute to the Pandyan King of Madura. We have no means of ascertaining the date of the Al-war's birth, as the traditional account is untrustworthy and full of inconsistencies. We are told that the infant was mute for several years after ...
... and mediaeval barbarity in forms that do not at once shock the eye." And pray, what was their crime, of these eminent men? 1 Born Subrahmanya Iyer, this Brahmin from Batlagundu in Madura district changed his caste name Iyer to Siva. 2 Facts in the cases of V. O. C. and Siva are taken from Madras Presidency in Pre-Gandhian Era, by Saroja Sundararajan. 3 Both V. O. C. and ...
... round the Palnis. In Ptolemy's Geography 3 (c. 140 A.D.) we get not only the "Land of Pandion" with its "Cape Kory" (the promontory in the island of Rāmeshwaram) and its "royal city Modoura" (Madura) but also two neighbouring "countries" in which we may recognise two of Aiyangar's "chieftaincies": "country of the Aioi" with "Kottiara, the metropolis" (in South Travancore) and "country of the Kareoi" ...
... can't but strengthen the being for the greater purpose. October 1936 ? (...) Mystery! Mystery O Guru! Nolini, Amrita & Co. baffled. Look at this map. They wired at 9.30 this morn from Madura. Now what do they mean ? Reaching here 11 a.m. on 21st? Then how can they stay at Salem till lunch—Salem is about the same distance from Pondicherry as Pondicherry is from Madras. Then—and here is ...
... complicity in the crime and sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment. At the end of May, 1911, and again a few days before the murder, two revolutionary leaflets appeared in Tinnevelly, Madura and other places, the first entitled "A Friendly Word to the Aryans" and the second "Oath of Admission into the Abhinav Bharat Society". They both purported to be printed by the "Feringhi Destroyer ...
... Not only were they religious places of worship, but structures of grandeur and beauty. There can be no doubt that the temples of India were a very powerful unifying factor. Starting from the South in Madura and Rameswaram right up to the north in Kashmir, in the East from Dwarka to the great temples in Assam, they have been a powerful religious, cultural and aesthetic unifying force. Another ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see how Japan can fight England and America when all her war supplies come from them. That is also why Spain can't join Germany. PURANI: N.R. Sarkar has given a lecture in Madura against non-violence. He says non-violence can't prevent invasion by another power. SRI AUROBINDO: That is my opinion too. I don't see how Satyagraha can prevent it, or does Gandhi expect that Hitler ...
... and help its significance; otherwise it is not art". 25 There is a striking difference between the massive and gorgeous architecture of the South Indian temples (those at Chidambaram, Conjeevaram, Madura, Tanjore and Srirangam, for example), the immediate opulence of the Gothic cathedrals and the utter and noble simplicity of the Parthenon, but each style has its own distinctive "form", significant ...
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