RARE FIND: A terracotta bull, a female head made of terracotta, miniature lingam made out of green-stone, a copper bell, conches and terracotta lamps discovered by the ASI at Salavankuppam near Mamallapuram. -- Photo: N. Sridharan
Posted on 03/21/2007 11:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The inscriptions on the pillars belong to the Pallava period of 8th century A.D. when Thirukin Kizhavar was the local chieftain, the Pallava period of early 9th century A.D. when Nripatunga Varman was the ruler, and 998 A.D. when Raja Raja Chola was in his 13th regnal year. The inscriptions, in Tamil, are about the donation of gold and land for the temple and the maintenance of its perpetual lamp at Thiruvizhchil, which is present-day Salavankuppam. There is an inscription of Raja Raja Chola on the floor near the entrance to the Shore Temple. He built the Brihadisvara temple in Thanjavur... These five inscriptions belong to Pallava kings Dantivarman (813 A.D.), Nandivarman III (818 A.D.), Kambavarman (9th century A.D), Rashtrakuta king Krishna III (971 A.D), and Chola king Rajendra III (13th century A.D). In 2005, the ASI also found an inscription of Kulotunga Chola in a nearby rocky outcrop.
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RARE FIND: A terracotta bull, a female head made of terracotta, miniature lingam made out of green-stone, a copper bell, conches and terracotta lamps discovered by the ASI at Salavankuppam near Mamallapuram. -- Photo: N. Sridharan
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Carvings from the Pallava Kingdom era.
And any pinions about this? Looks kind-of Iranian propaganda-ish.
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/india_parthian_colony1.php
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The Tamil tongue is not Indo-European. :')
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/images32/optimized/vasundara1-475.jpg
It's more likely that technology was adopted than that language was abandoned, and even more likely that the claims are, ahem, inflated. It's also possible that it was a two way street, or even that the stuff claimed as Iranian was actually borrowed from southern India. :')
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