Saturday, November 12, 2011

History - How Avvaiyar explains about the weapons with Adhiyaman to Thondaiman?

Auvvaiyar.Probably the most famous of the Tmil poetesses.She was the author of two celebrated works of aphorism known as the Atticudi and Konral Venthom, in the order of the Tamil alphabet,considered "worthly of Seneca himself," (Babingtom,Chen Tamil Grammar,Intr.p.xi,Beschi's view) and also known as the " Golden Alphabet of the Tamils" (Asiatic Researches,vii,p. 350). By profession she was a minstrel.She had a shining forehead,she painted her eye-lids black and on her waist she wore a jewelled girdle.She spent the larger part of her life at the court of the chief of Thankadur,(modern Dharmapuram in Salem district,Tamil Nad) named Athiyaman Anchi,the head of the tribe of Malavar.That chief presented to her the sweet fruit of the nelli tree,which was reputed to prolong life.He despatched her as an ambador to Thondiman,the ruler of Kanchi.She attended the sacrifice performed by the Chola king.Peru-nar Killi and addressed the Tamil monarchs Urgaperu Valthy,Peru-nar-Killi,and the Cera king Mavenko,,who ones sat together.She exhorted them to do good which would save them from the perils of the future.(Puram.,89,390,94,95,235,367).She has been igned the period A.D.100-130(Kanakasabhai,The Tamils 1800 years Ago,p. 203) but this is conjectural and untenable becaise,if she was the contemporary of Thondaiman which was one of the titles borne by the Thirayan of Kanchi during the infancy Karikala Cola(4th century A.D.) and of Peru-nar Killi who was 4th in descent from Karikala Cola,then she will have to be placed in the 5th century A.D. allowing 25th years for each of the predecessors of Peru-nar.Killi.She must have,if this is admitted,been sent as an ambador to one of the successor of Karikala who probably bore the title of Thondaiman and not to the Thirayan himself

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