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unusual facts about Vilar, Thanjavur


Mullivaikal Muttram

The Mullivaikal Muttram complex is spread out on a 1.75-acre plot at Vilar, a village situated 5 km from Thanjavur on the Thanjavur-Tiruchirappalli national highway.


Airavatesvara Temple

This temple, built by Rajaraja Chola II in the 12th century CE is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur, the Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram that are referred to as the Great Living Chola Temples.

Alagiri Nayak

Alagiri Nayak was the younger brother of the Madurai Nayak king Chokkanatha Nayak and the last Nayak king of Thanjavur.

Alangudi

Alangudi, Papanasam taluk, a village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India

Ammaveedu

Other Ammaveedus of prominence were Vadasseri Ammaveedu, Nagercoil Ammaveedu, Thanjavur Ammaveedu, Thiruvattar Ammaveedu, Puthumana Ammaveedu (of Ravi Varman Thampi) etc., all named after the villages from where the original Ammachis came.

Architecture of Tamil Nadu

The Chola kings ruled from AD (848–1280) and included Rajaraja Chola I and his son Rajendra Chola who built temples such as the Brihadeshvara Temple of Thanjavur and Brihadeshvara Temple of Gangaikonda Cholapuram, the Airavatesvara Temple of Darasuram and the Sarabeswara (Shiva )Temple, also called the Kampahareswarar Temple at Thirubhuvanam, the last two temples being located near Kumbakonam.

Automóvil Club Argentino

Its national headquarters, designed in the Rationalist style by local architect Antonio U. Vilar and collaborators Alejandro Bustillo, was completed in 1942 on Buenos Aires' Avenida del Libertador.

Bhaskararaya

A disciple king of his (Maratha king Serfoji I of Thanjavur) invited him to the South and gave him a whole village on the banks of the Cauvery river.

Brahmin Tamil

# In the words ending in m and n preceded by a vowel, the vowel is nasalised but the nasal stops themselves are not pronounced except when followed by a word beginning with a vowel in the Thanjavur style.

Chellampatti

Chellampatti, Thanjavur, a neighbourhood in Thanjavur City, Thanjavur Taluk, Thanjavur district

Chinnaponnu

In 1990 Chinnaponnu was married to composer and percussionist Selva Kumar (who generally performs under the name Kumar) at Thanjavur Mariamman Temple.

Claude Esteban

Cahier Claude Esteban, Farrago/Léo Scheer, 2003, texts by Pierre Vilar, Yves Bonnefoy, Xavier Bruel, Florence Delay, Michel Deguy, Yves di Manno, Jacques Dupin, Jean Frémon, Emmanuel Hocquard, Gilbert Lascault, Bernard Noël, Jacqueline Risset, Jean-Luc Sarré, Jean-Pierre Cometti, etc.

Company style

Leading centres were the main British settlements of Calcutta, Madras (Chennai), Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and the Maratha court of Thanjavur.

Constanzo Beschi

Other churches built by him are Vyagula Matha Church at Thanjavur and another church at Palliyeri Village near Thanjavur.Then he served as parish priest in Kamanayakkanpatti one of the oldest mission centers in Tamil Nadu.

Dakshinamurthy Pillai

His pupils include Palani Subramania Pillai,Thanjavur Ramadas, Palghat Mani Iyer Devakottai Sunder Raj and Thangavellu Pillai of Malaysia.

Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss

Rev. Bishop Arokiasamy Sundaram, the first Bishop of Thanjavur.

E. S. S. Raman

Later after the merger of TMC with Indian National Congress, Raman was granted the opportunity to serve as the High Command Observer for Thanjavur District, native district of his mentors Moopanar and Vasan, by All India Congress Committee (AICC).

Ekoji II

Ekoji II (1696–1737) was the eldest surviving son of Maratha king of Thanjavur Tukkoji who succeeded to the throne on the death of his father in 1736.

Great Living Chola Temples

These temples are the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, the Temple of Gangaikondacholisvaram and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram.

Inbakavi

After staying for a short period at the court of the Raja, Inbakavi set out for the court of Serfoji II of Thanjavur.

Irene Vilar

She founded her own literary agency, Vilar Creative Agency, and serves as a co-agent in the United States for Ray-Gude Mertin Literary Agency, an agency specializing in Spanish, Latin American, and Portuguese authors, which represented such notable writers as 1998 Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago.

Kothangudi

Kothangudi, Papanasam taluk, a village in the Papanasam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India

Madhuravani

Madhuravani was a scholar and poet who lived in Thanjavur during the reign of the Thanjavur Nayak king Raghunatha Nayak.

Mangammal

The Madurai kingdom had enemies all-around; the Marathas, Mysore army, Mughal army with the Deccan Sultans and frequent interludes by the Thanjavur kingdom.

Mannargudi

Present-day Mannargudi dates from the time of the Thanjavur Nayak king, Vijaya Raghava Nayak (1633–1673), also called "Mannaru dasan" who carried out extensive renovations of the Rajagopalaswami temple complex and is credited by some with having reclaimed the land from the surrounding forest.

Marava War of Succession

Meanwhile, Bhavani Shankar had earned the ire of the Thanjavur Maratha ruler Tukkoji as he had failed to keep up his promise of delivering Aranthangi to the Thanjavur Marathas.

Marundeeswarar Temple

The road starting from Marundeeswarar temple, now called ECR was an important route during the Chola period and was known as Vadagaperuvazhi, connecting the kingdom to places in Thanjavur and Andhra Pradesh.

Muddupalani

Muddupalani (fl. ca. 1750) was a Telugu speaking poet and devadasi attached to the court of Pratap Singh, the Maratha king of Tanjore.

Nagore Shahul Hamid

Hajrath Shahul Hamid Badusha Kaadiri cured king Achutappa Nayak(1529–1542 A.D.), a Hindu ruler of Thanjavur of his physical affliction believed to be caused by a sorcery.

Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti

Now a Member of the Planning Board of the Tamil University, Thanjavur, he has been a Member of the Senate, Bharathiar University, Member, Central Silk Board and Member, South Zone Cultural Centre, Chennai and Patron of The Madras Progress Union Higher Secondary School.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

Nilakanta Sri Ram or Nilakantha Sri Ram (N. Sri Ram) (* 15 December 1889 in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India; died 8 April 1973 in Adyar, India) was a freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar.

Philip Wilder

After leaving Chanticleer, Wilder took a position as Associate Director of the Capital Campaign for the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. He was awarded a fellowship at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Vilar Institute for Arts Management, where he managed the first American tour of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra.

Puntambekar

The Maratha empire at its peak was spread across much of India from Thanjavur in the South to Indo-Gangetic plain of the North and in the West to Attock in what is today's Pakistan.

Rajaraja Chola II

This royal Siva temple, which is one of the trinity of the Great Living Chola Temples along with the Brihadeeswarar Temple Temples at Thanjavur and Gangaikonda Cholapuram all of which are World Heritage Sites.

Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram

He finished his school education in Thanjavur and Palayamkottai.

Rayar bungalow

Venkoji (Marathi: व्यंकोजी/एकोजी १)(born 1629) or Ekoji I was the younger half-brother of Shivaji and founder of Maratha rule in Thanjavur.

Schwartz Church

Within the precincts of the church is a 1797 sculpture of Schartz on his death-bed with the Thanjavur Maratha king Serfoji II and the missionary Guericke beside him.

Sebastião Soares de Resende

He entered the seminary of Vilar in 1923 and the Major Seminary of Oporto in 1926.

Serfoji III

Serfoji III was an adopted son of the last Maratha ruler of Thanjavur, Shivaji II and pretender to the throne of Thanjavur.

Sevappa Nayak

Sevappa Nayak was a feudatory of the Vijayanagar Empire and the governor of Thanjavur who founded the Thanjavur Nayak kingdom.

Shahuji II

Shahuji II of Katturaja was the name of the ruler of Thanjavur from 1738 to 1739 who rose to power based on the unverified claim of being an illegitimate son of Serfoji I.

Sridhara Venkatesa Ayyaval

On Ayyaval's arrival in Thanjavur, he was offered all assistance and respect by Shahuji, the then ruler of the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom.

Sujanbai

Sujanbai was the wife of Ekoji II, the Maratha ruler of Thanjavur.

Thanjavur Nayak kingdom

Vijaya Raghava Nayak (1634–1673), was the last of the Nayak Kings of Thanjavur.

Raghunatha Nayak (1600–1634) is regarded as the greatest in the Thanjavur Nayak dynasty.

Sevappa Nayak (1532–1580), was the first Thanjavur Nayak king.

Thenpandi Singam

Kalaignar was also awarded the "Raja Rajan Award" by Tamil University, Thanjavur for this book.

Valambal

She was also partly responsible for the impressive performance of the Communist Party of India in the Thanjavur region.

Vedanayagam Sastriar

Vedanayagam Sastriar 1774 -1864 of Thanjavur, poet-lyricist, court poet in the palace of Serfoji II.


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