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 CHAPTER 20 Their Greatest Enemy Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter                 Azhwarkadiyan thanked the owl silently, in his heart, for its timely help as the conspirators had mistaken the sounds they had heard for the flapping of the owl's wings. “Ada! Let's kill this owl that frightened us!” shouted one of them.            “No! Save your swords for more important tasks. Keep them sharp enough to completely destroy our enemies. Owls are our friends, not our enemies. We’re usually awake when everyone else is asleep, and the Owls keep us company,” said Ravidasan.          While Ravidasan spoke, Thirumalai crept step by step to a huge maruda tree, over a hundred years old, whose roots had ...

 CHAPTER 19 The Bloody Battlefield. Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter It was a custom in ancient Tamilnadu to install a stone in memory of someone who died a warrior’s death on the battlefield, and build a temple there. If only a stone marked the place, it was called a nadukarkoil. If a deity was installed and a temple built around it, it was known as a pallipadai, a cenotaph. There was a pallipadai of this kind near the village of Thirupurambayam, half a kadham to the northwest of Kudandhai, on the northern bank of the Manni. It had been built in memory of the Ganga King, Prithvipathi, who died in one of the big battles fought there. Students of history know that the battles of Waterloo, Panipat and Plassey changed the course of history. As far as Tamilnadu is concerned the Battle of T...

 CHAPTER 18 Idumbankari  Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter Let us now turn our attention to Azhwarkadiyan Nambi, also known as Thirumalaiappar, whom we left near the wharf on the Kollidam. Gazing in the direction in which Vandiyathevan had set off on horseback to Thanjavur, he muttered to himself, “He’s a smart boy, he has a trick up his sleeve for every trick I have. I’ve not been able to find out whose man he is, or where he’s going. I’m not even sure he took part in the meeting the conspirators held at the Kadambur palace yesterday. Anyway, I’ve told him about the Kudandhai josier. Let's see if he's able to find out something.” “What's this? Are you talking to yourself, sami, or to the pepal tree?” Azhwarkadiyan turned and saw the servant from Kadambur who had fetched a horse fo...

 CHAPTER 17 The Horse Bolts Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter Kundavai had decided that the bride most suited to her peerless brother, Arulmozhivarman, was Vanathi. But Vanathi had one defect — her timidity. Could a girl who was to marry a warrior and become the mother of a monarch who would rule the whole world under one umbrella afford to be so timid? Kundavai wanted to transform her, make her a courageous and spirited girl. That was why she organised the prank with the stuffed crocodile. But Vanathi stood this test well. When they came back from the Kudandhai josier’s, Kundavai and Vanathi got into the swan boat with the others. The boat went a short distance down the river and anchored at a spot where there was dense foliage. Kundavai and her companions often used to play in the w...

 CHAPTER 16 Arulmozhi varmar Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter T he peerless Ko Raja Kesari Varmar Paranthaka Sundara Chozhar was Emperor of South India about nine hundred and eighty years ago. He had ascended the throne twelve years before this story began. The empire had been growing in might over a hundred years and had expanded in all four directions. In spite of this, at the time Sundara Chozhar ascended the throne, the enemies on the southern and northern borders of the empire were still strong. Kandaradithar, who had ruled before Sundara Chozhar, had been a devotee of Siva and had been known as “Sivagnana Kandaradithar.” He had not shown much interest in expanding the empire. His brother Arinjayar, who had succeeded him, ruled only for a year before he died in battle at Athur. ...

 CHAPTER 15 Vanathi’s Playacting Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter We saw Kundavai Devi and the Kodumbalur princess go to Kudandhai in their chariot, didn't we? We must now find out what the girls in the boat talked about, what they did. “Hey Tharakai! How lucky this Kodumbalur girl is! Why is our Ilaya Piratti so fond of her?” asked one. “It has nothing to do with being fond of her, Varini. That girl seems to have been mentally unwell these past four months. She faints from time to time. Ilaya Piratti is worried — she's in charge of her and the girl has no parents. She took her to the josier to find out what’s wrong with her. Could it be the work of evil spirits? If it is, they’ll have to be exorcised, won’t they?”   “Evil spirits? Why would an evil spirit enter her? She can drive...

 CHAPTER 14 The Crocodile on the River Bank Join our Telegram Group to get instant notification regarding New Chapter Updates Previous Chapter               Chapter List                 Next Chapter In those days, people going from Kudandhai to Thanjavur took the path along the banks of the Arisilar or the Kaveri until they reached Thiruvaiyaru. They would then turn south and go on to Thanjavur. Places where the Kudamurutti, the Vettaru, the Vennaru and the Vadavaru rivers could be crossed conveniently were situated only on this route. Vandiyathevan therefore went along the banks of the Arisilar after he left Kudandhai. The sights he saw on the way were far more wonderful than the descriptions of Chozha Nadu that he had heard earlier. Anything pleasantly new always has great charm at first glance, doesn’t it? Green fields, ginger and turmeric plants, sugar cane fields, banana plantations, coconut groves, r...