Historical Novels: Ponniyin Selvan vs Kadal Pura

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Yes Suresh,
After Sandilyan, no body is good or atleast not popular in writing Historical novels. You told about Yavana Rani. That's a superb novel I Liked it very much. It is a very old story of Sandilyan. It appeared on Kumudam in the 60's. Sandilyan did not write much about women in that novel as in his later novels. The way he told the story is superb. It talked about making the King The Great Karikarcholan. But the hero of the novel belongs to Pandya Kingdom. There are lot of things to discuss about this story.

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LTTE leader V.PRABAKHARAN said that he was very impressed by the historical navalse in tamil also he mension about kadal pura.
now you don't wan't to talk about historical events, in EELAM there are done mavelous events by kadal pulikal.

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Both are very good historical novels. We should not compare.

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Please read prabanchan's vAnam vasappadum and mAnudam vellum. They are the BEST historical novels in Tamil

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sandilyan explained well about , how they built ships(paaimara padagu) and cyclones etc on KP.
But I love PS than KP.I love Kalki´s tamil and characters.

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I first read both these novels around 20 years ago, and since then I have read both these novels many times.

I like KP more than PS, probably because I am now living in Indonesia which was the main component of the Sri Wijaya Kingdom. It appears to me that Sandilyan's description about the people and places in KP are more or less true, although in some cases there appear to be a bit of overstating.

If you go to the Musium in Jakarta you can see a lot of Hindu symbols, statues, stone writings, etc., which I believe are because of the influence of Chola Kings.

They are both very good novels, and therefore no need to discuss as to which one is better than the other.

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Hi all,

I want to read "Kadal Pura" from net. Where can i find it? Waiting for your replies.

Dani

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In PS I was confused in climax.I was not able to ascertain the climax.Still I'm having some doubt about the climax.who are the parents of nandhini?
frinds plz tell if you know

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Sri

The climaz is not confusing. Since the chola period does not ends with that, it is quite difficult give an certain end. Anyhow, the parents of Nandhini are......................

Friend, that is the thread which drags the story. Some of my friends above might not have read the story. Anyway, u read volume 5 again.

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I read that part thrice but I was not able to get it.please help me.atleast tell me the parents of chendhan amudhan.bye