HISTORY

Ilango Adigal.

I came with the mindset that most Indian stories were mythology but Kannagi was a real human story. In New York, we have the expression, ‘you can’t fight city hall’, but Kannagi fought and won. While most epics glorify military might, this was a critique of state power.

The Cilappatikaram is set in a flourishing seaport city of the early Chola kingdom. Kannaki and Kovalan are a newly married couple, in love, and living in bliss. Over time, Kovalan meets Matavi (Madhavi) – a courtesan. He falls for her, leaves Kannaki and moves in with Matavi

Kannagi devi is from Vaniya chettiar Community. In The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru written aritical about Kannagi devi. Kovalan, the son of a wealthy teli merchant in Kaveripattinam, married Kannagi, a young woman of legendary beauty.

Kannagi curses the king and curses the people of Madurai, tearing off her breast and throwing it at the gathered public. The king dies. The society that had made her suffer, suffers in retribution as the city of Madurai is burnt to the ground because of her curse.

Kannagi was the daughter of the merchant and ship captain Manayakan from Puhar. She marries the son of Macattuvan, Kovalan, whose family were sea traders and had the sea goddess Manimekalai as patron deity.

Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or the image of a deity is housed in a simple bare cell.

The design which flourished in eastern Indian state of Odisha and Northern Andhra Pradesh are called Kalinga style of architecture. The style consists of three distinct type of temples namely Rekha Deula, Pidha Deula and Khakhara Deula. Deula means “temple” in the local language.

Hindu temple architecture reflects a synthesis of arts, the ideals of dharma, values and the way of life cherished under Hinduism. 

Archimedes envisioned a hexagon inscribed within a circle with radius ½. The formula for circumference is 2πr. Hence, with ½ as a radius, the circumference of his circle would be π. He then conjectured that the hexagon’s perimeter would approach the circumference of the circle (π)