Thursday 29 December 2011

GREAT KING PANDYA PERUVALZUDHI



THE GREAT KING PERUVALZUDHI OF NUMEROUS SACRIFICES

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:19:20 +0800
From: jay bee <jaybee011008@gmail.com>

Dear Agathiyarians,

    In the first madal on 'Coins', I mentioned about a very ancient Pandya king called 'PalYaagaSaalai MudhKudumi Peruvalzudhi'.
    Here is an old posting about him.....

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    The Pandya country was ruled by the Pandyas for a very long time.
    Legend says that the Tamils were in the Land of Kumari. Then in the present Tamilnadu.
    Tamil was nurtured, preserved and developed in academies called the Sangam.

    Among the early Pandyas of the Sangam Age is a very noteworthy figure.

    He is 'PalYaaga Saalai Mudhukudumi Peruvalzudhi'.
    He must have lived anytime around or before 600 BC.
    There are five poems composed in honour of him in the PuRanaanuuRu by Kaari Kilzaar, Nettimaiyaar, and NedumPalliyaththanaar.
    One of the poems celebrates the Yagams performed by him.

    He is said to have performed numerous yagams.
    Hence the epithet 'pal yaaga saalai'.
    The yagams were performed by Korkai Kilzan NarkoRRan who 'never left the path of the vedas'.

    The yagams were performed at a place in the Paaganuur KuuRRam of Pandiyanadu. It is still there in the Sivagangai District.

    The Chinnamanur copper grant says that an illustrious ancestor of the Pandyas performed one 
thousand yagams.

    The VELvikkudi grant praises him as

'kolyaanai palavOttik kuudaa mannar kulzaam dhavirththa -
palyaaga mudhukudumi peruvalzudhiyenum paaNdiyaadhi
raasan'.

    After the yaagams were done, he named the whole place where the yagams had taken place as 
'VELvikkudi' and with sacred libations of holy water, made them over to NarkoRRan.


    On the occasion of the Asvamedha Yagam, he issued a commemorative coin.
    On the obverse of the coin, there is the head of Peruvalzudhi.
    The reverse shows a sacrificial horse. And the name 'Peruvalzudhi' in Brahmi script.

    It would surprise most of you - rather shock you when you see a clean shaven face with a Roman hair style and a very prominent Roman Nose.
    He might pass for a Caesar any time.
    You see..., you have been primed and conditioned to see Tamil kings with girudha, moustache and baghavathar crop. So you'll get a shock to see the profile of Peruvalzudhi.

    Enjoy seeing a truely ancient Tamil king and I will take you to the next section.....
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:14:42 +0800
Subject: Re: VELvikkudi Grant(continued) - Re: [agathiyar] Re: Arunagirinathar and His Mission


On 6/16/05, JayBee <jaybee@tm.net.my> wrote:
Peruvalzudhi the Great had accomplished a superhuman task. He had completed one thousand yagams. Including an Asvamedha yagam. The prerequisite for an Asvamedha yaagam is an invincible all-round conquest.
Normally, a horse which belongs to a category which fulfills all the requisites according to the samudrika lakshana for horses, is chosen.
Samudrika Lakshana for horses???
Yes.
Why not?
This branch of science was known as Asva Lakshana Sastra. 
Horses were very valuable in those days. 
There was a later Pandya who spent millions of gold dinars every three years, just to import twenty thousand horses from Arabia. 
In those days, Arabia proper was the territory which is along the Gulf coast - Uniter Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Quattar, Oman, Muscat, Yemen, and Aden.
There were special classes of horses called Pancha Kalyani and Ashta Kalyani. 
No. Pancha Kalyani is NOT a horse suffering from a famine. It possesses five lakshanas. 
So this poor horse which had the luck to be born very perfect, was adorned with ornaments of all kinds and led from place to place. It would have the royal white parasol on its back - veN koRRa kudai. All the regal insignia would be also carried duly in procession. According to Sastras, the horse was allowed to go wherever it wished. A well-fitted elite army of fierce crack troops would follow. 

If it enters a king's territory, that king must bring tribute and submit himself.
Otherwise, a war will be waged. That sort of a war would be devastating in nature. The country would be totally destroyed and the barren land would be dedicated to the demons. 
This sort of terrorising war was a deterant.

Any king would have second thoghts when such a war is about to be fought in his land. 
Better to submit. Live another day. Make preparations Screw the fellah up when the chance comes. 
So....this was the techinique and psychology behind such a war expedition.

I am thinking......
Could the horse be allowed to wander into the land of a mightier king? For example, Chenghiz Khan?
Probably some joker with a carrot tied to his back could run in front and into the lands of suckers. 
Or a mare in heat going in front.

So, after sufficient conquests, the horse comes back. There, it is sacrificed and the pieces thrown into the fire-pit.
Asvamedha yaagam and a Raajasuuya yaagam makes a king into a World Emperor.

This is the mechanism of Asvamedha. 

All these yagams would render the position of Indra -  Lordship of the Celestial Realms - to the king who performs it.

I don't know whether Peruvalzudhi attained that unenviable  post or not. 

Did I say, "That sort of a war would be devastating in nature. The country would be totally destroyed and the barren land would be  dedicated to the demons".
Yes I did.

This is precisely what our Great King of Palyaagasaalai did "In your enemies' countries, you ploughed up the good roads over which chariots used to run, with donkeys yoked to ploughs 
and devastated them. The famous beautiful agricultural fields which were filled with the sweet chirpings of birds; you drove your chariots driven by horses into them and destroyed all the crops"
Thus sings Nettimaiyaar.
Kaari Kilzar extols his valour thus..... 
"Your garland that adorns your head whithers with e smoke that arises from the land of your enemy which has been burnt". 


Yes.
Those were the times.
You kill and plunder and starve and make people homeless and destitute and desparate. You create orphans and carry off people into slavery and prostitution and concubinage.
And you perfrom a thousand yagams to satiate some unseen celestial gods up above - nobody knows where and donate lavishly to Brahmins.
Yes Sir.
Those were certainly the Golden Age.

One of the poets who have extolled him, blesses him, saying that 'May he live a lengthy period of as many years as the number of the sand grains in the River PahRuLi.

'ப·றுளி ஆற்றின் மணலினும் பலவே'

'pahRuLi aaRRin maNalinum palavE'

Now here is the real shocker.
Its that name 'PahRuLi River'.
That river is no more.
Even during the time of Third Sangam which was residing in Madurai, it was no more.
That river was one of the three known rivers which had flowed in the Land of Kumari.
Kumari was already submerged undersea at the time of the Third Sangam.

There are two possibilities here.

1. PalyagaSalai and Nettimaiyaar lived during the time that the Land of Kumari was still around and the River PahRuLi was still flowing.

Or...

2. Nettimaiyaar was drawing a reference from the memory of the existance of a River from the remote past. 
The river might have been a mighty river; the sands would then have been too numerous as compared to the Vaigai or TamraparNi which belong to the Pandyas also. 

During the Third Tamil Sangam Age, one of the most important Pandya kings was Thalai Aalanggaanaththu Cheru VenRa PaaNdiyan Nedunjelziyan.
The chief poet of this Nedunjelziyan was Maanggudi Marudhanaar. Incidentally, Maanggudi Marudhan was the president of the acedemy of the Third Sangam for which Nedunjelziyan was the Patron. 

Some of the pot shreds and the rock-cut beds, bear his name in inscriptions. The inscriptions are in the Brahmi script.

O.K.
Go to this URL.
There is a nice article on Tamil Brahmi script and some samples of Brahmi script.

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2013/stories/20030704000207100.htm

Manggudi Marudhan has extolled Peruvalzudhi, the ancestor of Nedunjlziyan.

Whatever be it....

PalyagaSalai Mudhukudumi Peruvalzudhi certainly is a very ancient character. Most probably before the Third Tamil Sangam.

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:04:41 +0000
From: JayBee <jaybee@tm.net.my>
Subject: Re: VELvikkudi Grant(continued) - Re: [agathiyar] Re:  Arunagirinathar 
 and His Mission


It certainly would have been. 
Especially if your home happens to be in between two countries which are at loggerheads; or happens to be in the main thoroughfare.
My place of origin is a place called Singampunari. Its near Piranmalai - PaRambu Malai of Pari VaLLal. 
It is in the Tiruchi-Madurai pathway. Most of the armies used to march through this area. 
Because of its position, the Ancient Pandyas had fortified the territory with jungles, chains of forts and castles. It was also populated with people belonging to various warror classes.
The netwoking is ingenius.
I'll come to it after I round-off Peruvalzudhi.

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