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Tamil Historical Fiction

Thennavan Padai Part of Peru vala ilanchi Kingdom.

Fiction about 2500 year ago.

In the early morning of that day, the city of Peru vala ilanchi, looked green. Thewater that flew through the canal enriched the soils beauty. The UZHAVAR, landlaborers, are on their way to the field. The sun slowly, embracing the earth. Allthe people, old to the children, are eager to perform their morning rituals. Inthe canal, that flew through the fields, small fishes jumped and fell into thewater.

The boundaries of the kingdom of peru vala ilanchi are , towards north Nambiriver, in the west Kurunkudi mountains, towards east Bay of Bengal and in thesouth upto Aral Vai Mozhi.

For the past one month, there haven rumors of, a far north chola king, war beingwaged against south kingdoms of Tamil Nadu. South is being ruled by four kingdom.

One such kingdom is Peru vala ilanchi. The prominent among them are the MaduraiKingdom, Tirunelveli Kingdom, Nanchil Kingdom. These four kingdom are united atthat point of time and also had a treaty to help each other in War.

On the day as above mentioned, one man riding his horse on the mountain roadrushed towards peruvalailanchi. Let us see who is this man. Oh! God , we see bloodstains on his shoulder. His face shows us that he was , Senathi pathi Pulian, Headof the soldiers, send to assist the Tirunelveli Kingdom, in case of war. ThePulians horse reached the front entrance of the Fort of Peru vala ilanchi. Aftershowing his identity, pulian went to the kings palace. On seeing the king, puliansaluted. The king read pulians face and showed no surprise or sad emotionwhatsoever, instead he smiled. He orderd his men to arrange for pulianstreatment. After the first aid is over, pulian narrated what happened :-

Since majority of the Tirunelveli forces was sent to Madurai to help them, Pulianwas made incharge of the River Tamirabarani boundary by the King of Tirunelveli.Pulian along with his, 600 foot army, 120 Knights put his camp on the beds of therivers south part. In the afternoon, suddenly on the northern bed of the river,some soldiers appeared. Their appearance aroused suspicion in pulian. Withinseconds, like the ants coming out of earth, on the northern bed appeared so manysoldiers. Pulian climbed on a nearby neem tree and looked on the far thenorthern bed of river. There he saw, a mamooth sena (Soldiers) numbering aboutTen thousand cavalry, 1000 Knights, and assisting carts and helpers. By theirappearance, it is sure that they are the chola soldiers, then what happened to theMadurai and Tirunelveli soldiers. For a few seconds, he was actionless.

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Thennavan



At the time pulian was about to facing the cholas, Thennavan was asleep dreamingfrightful scenes, wake up at the mid of night. The dream was so firm thatThennavan know what his order from the mother Chinna muthaal. It was still 2jamams (about 6 hours) before the dawn, but he remembered what maa said to him inthe dreams. Normally, Thennavan is a never afraid of character and used to live insmall jungles and caves in rocks. Because of his unselfish character he was ableto command respect in the below privileged community. There was always plenty ofyouths and middle aged men always there to accept his leadership, but Thennavan

always rejected that. But today may be his day as it may be written by maa Chinna muthaal. We will describe his story at a latter stage.

Upon woke up, Thennavan, went to the her holy picture and prayed for seconds, andtook his swords, he saw by gods grace the situation at river tamirabarani whichpulian was facing. Within minutes, he was on his horse, and riding through thestreets of Rajakkal Mangalam, Peru Vala ilanchi and Tiruvengadam , so many youthsand middle aged men and even old aged but still strong men were after him withoutinvitation. The crowd looked like an small kings army. Almost all have come withhorses. Any king would be wondering, where these horses was hiding. The numbers,if numbered , would have been in excess of lacs, armoured with sword, arrow,javlin. Upon reaching the nimbi river befor 1 jamam of dawn, he ordered his fellowmen :-

Brothers of this holy land, I have never asked you a favour for me hereinbefore.Now, it is because my MAA has said that there is a danger ahead, and she showed meit as tamirabarani river. There Peru Vazha ilanchi forces may be in trouble. Theorder to me is to safe guard the southern kingdoms, I thing so. We should reachtamirabarani by dawn. All the forces of Thennavan, the unselfish force, crossedthe river nimbi and ran toward tirunelveli like a storm. At the same time inpulians camp, they were wondring why the enemy has not attacked them by crossingthe river, when they have reached the river bed in the afternoon itself. Pulianwas unable to find a solution, he sent a soldier to peru vala ilanchi to appraisethe king about the situation. Pulian went to sleep, with confusion as to what todo in the next morning.

THE BATTLE BEGINS TAMIRABARANI 1It was about 15 minutes before the sunrise, the chola forces colluding withcheras, and another 7 small kings forces, numbering ten more times what it was inthe previous day evening was crossing the river tamirabarani. Pulian wake up atthe noise raised by enemy troop movement. And he sensed that his death is not faraway.

The timing of the cholas army entering the southern bed of tamirabarani coincidedwith thenavans army reaching the spot. There arose big noise and both the armydashed with each other like mountains. The scene soon looked like blood river.Thennavans horse seemed to exhibit all the tactics it learned, in this battle.The horse moved vigorously, kicked the enemy with its foot and moved in circularway very speedly, because of that nobody was able to reach to thennavan. Thennavan

has built several vyugas in such a way that not a single chola soldier enteringthe Thennavan was doing much damage to the cholas. Slowly, by the passage oftime, the cholas, left the battle field. The Thennavan army raised victoryrithems.

Suddenly there was..

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Suddenly there was calm. The reason for the calm was at some distance the YuvaRani (Princess) of Tirunelveli was coming towards the force along with about some2000 soldiers, 500 cavalry and 200 elephants. These forces were at the port ofKudankulam because there was fear of attack from ilankai and other easterncountries through sea. Because of the long distance, the forces could reach justnow only even though ordered to march towards tirunelveli very early.Tirunelveli Yuva Ranis name was Puthuvili. The horse upon which Puthuvili satreached Thennavan. Puthuvili got down from the horse and seeing thennavan said

Good Morning Senapati (Head of Army). So you have kept nothing for me. Youdenied me an opportunity to prove my skill and vigour

It may be true. But for your highness, this battle is nothing. It seems thatthere is plenty of opportunity for you to prove your skills. Thennavan said andcontinued

See, the cholas has reached up to Tirunelveli. It means that they must haveconquered Madurai. It is not clear as to what happened to the Army of Madurai &Tirunelveli.

I am also thinking in the same way. What could have happened to my forces atmadurai, not a single soldier seemed to have returned. The scene might be

terrific. Thennava ! you chalk out the strategy and let me know.- Puthuvilli

By the time the army has constructed make-shift dents. Puthivili reached her dentand Thennavan reached his dent. By noon the sun was spraying his heated arms. Butthe wind that flew has kept the heat under control. Thennavan came out of his dentand reached his horse and took it to the river and took bath along with his horse.

He was looking at the sky expecting something, but it was not known what it was.Finally after passage of about half an hour or so, a pigeon flied toward him andsat on his right shoulder. Thennavan took the cute bird in his hand and took outsomething looked like a tiny piece out of the birds body. The tiny piece looked

like small palm leave upon which something was written. What is written. Thennavanstarted reading the script in it.

Thennava & Puthuvili , Madurai must be under cholas control. Reach up to madurai.I will join you in due course. PVI Vikraman.

After reading thennavan face fell for some thinking and started toward his dent.By the time he reached his dent, the meal was ready.

The soldiers, took the meal in their hands, and started eating. Some soldiers wasstanding and some were sitting. Some soldiers are tasting the Palm Wine (Wine madefrom Palm Tree) along with the food. Thennavan witnessed all these happeningsamong the soldiers. He reached the Dinning are allotted for the higher grade army

men. Puthvili and others are awaiting thennavan to join them for the meal. Themeal was served. It contained Keappa Kool (a type of food in semi liquid form insouthern India). While having the meal, the dialogue started amongst them.

Yuvarani! We shall send some spy to Madurai to know the situation. After knowingthe situation we can take proper action elder man Suryanar

At the same time we can ask my king & Peru Vala ilanchi king permission to marchthe troops toward madurai. Peru vala ilanchis balance troop has still not reachedhere. That would give us some time to refresh also- Nanchil kingdom senapathi Srivallvan.



Hearing these, Puthuvili smiled at Thennavan so did Thennavan at Puthuvili. Thesmile conveyed that the decision was already taken.

The troops will march toward Madurai. Madurai is under Cholas control. Our job inhand is to liberate madurai from the cholas. Our Troops should be ready within anhour. All of you do the necessary things.- Thennavan

Srivallava. You will lead the army up to the outskirts of Madurai. Stay atThirumangalam. I will send a message when and where to strike- PuthuviliPuthuvili and myself will move fast toward madurai. We have to see the MaduraiKing Manavarmans fate. He may be in extreme danger.- Thennavan

After the meal was over, the order for march was given to the soldiers. The army,like a new flood, rose with joy and started preparing for march. By the time thearmy was ready to leave, Thennavan team arrived there. Puthuvili and thennavan saton their horses, and offered their wishes to the forces and told them that theywould join them at the battle ground. The army started its march. It looked like a

sea of humans.

Kuravan Chinna malai & Valli Kurathi - The Artists

Puthuvili and Thennavan rode their horses towards madurai in a hasty way. Thehorse left the road and went through the jungle and unstructured path. By eveningthey reached Senthanur. In senthanur, they stood before a hut looked house andknocked the door. Kuravan Chinna malai came out and seeing thennavan and puthuvilihe was surprised and joyous. He held thennavans hand and kissed it. He took bothof them into his hut. He told both of them sit there he will come out afterkeeping their horses in the garden behind the hut. After coming out of the garden,he joined them both. By the time Kurathi valli (wife of Kuravan) also joined them.

In a slow voice their dialogue started.Prabho. Raja Manavarman is in captive of Cholas. In the battle our army wasscattered most of the army was destroyed. Some escaped soldiers are also hidingin the mountains. The cholas captured the king. It is pity that our escapedsoldiers must be hanging around the mountain for food. The may move towardstirunelveli through the mountain. But it will take few days. Without food it wouldbe difficult to walk in the mountain. By gods grace ample fruits available atthe mountain. Today I have arranged food grains and some utensils to cook forsupply to them. The passage will move secretly at the start of the dark night. Itwas my luck that you joined me at this time. The passage will move like theArtists Party.

At the start of the dark night the Folk Artists Party moved on the pretext ofreaching kodai for performance. Even at the night the passage was halted forchecking. Kuravan Chinnamalai was like chanakya. He cleverly evaded the checkersby singing a song or making a comedy. Kurathi also joined him at some places wherethe number of soldiers was more. Near the checking point, the passage movedslowly otherwise it moved fastly. By the sun set of the next day they reached thefoot of the mountains. From here it would be difficult to move the passage. Thefood grains should be moved by hand. It was at the time packing itself taken careof. Each bundle of food grain was easily carryable by a man.



To call the Madurai soldiers & Tirunelveli soldiers to lift the grain they deviseda plan. The plan was that singing a folk song, in which the pride of Madurai andTirunelveli are to be scripted. By hearing the song, their nearby soldiers mayturn up.

Kuravan StartedMuthu kulithidum pon kadal

Konda Muthalvan allava.. ..

Nee engal thalavann allavaaMadurai nagar aalum mannavan nee allavaa.

Thenralirundhu vilayaadum then porunaiNayagiye Muthu pavala vaai konduKarunkoonthal mudi choodi vaalenthum penmayile enkal valvukku thunai neeye.

As planned the song reached the targets. After some time the soldiers startedcoming towards the artists party. Signals in the form of flames sent whichreached all the soldiers. All the soldiers started coming down towards the Artistsparty. After pass of two Jamam ( 6 hours), the place was full of army numberingmore than 6000. The soldiers were happy by seeing puthuvili and thennavan at the

site. Their presence inspired their vigour and fighting sense. The grains werecooked there and served among them. The soldiers thanked the artists party andthennavan and puthuvili. They went for rest. A few men sat for watch.

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Madurai Kings Palace Sri Vallavans Siege

The sun has set in the east, it was very early morning of the day, one man lookedlike an border or check post army rushing towards the palace in his horse. From

his hasty ness it appeared that he was on an important task. His horse reached thefort of madurai. The soldiers at the entrance stopped him and asked him to showthe authorization to enter the palace. He showed using his hands something whichhad the authorization code / symbol. By seeing the action, the guards left him inwith respect. He reached the palace of the king and told the gate guards that hewants to see the king urgently.

After few minutes , the chola king appeared. The man gave the respect and sat uponto narrate the story.

Prabho! My Lord! I came from Thirumangalam. I saw that large soldiers of thesouth has reached Tirumangalam and stay at there. The numbers may be in lakhs. Iheared a hearsay that some more troops are coming from Kodai & Peru Vala Ilanchi.

- Chola spy Chokkannar

Oh!. It is good that you brought this news very early, Chokannare. You go backand sent the news as and when available. Take all the help you want from theminister

- Chola King

At the same time the forces at Kodai Mountain were on their way towards madurai.Puthuvili and thennavan led them. Be cause of their walking it will take two daysto reach madurai.



The forces lead by senapathy Srivallavan has reached Tirumangalam. The forces puta stay and constructed small dents for its comfort. Srivallavan was proud that hewas given opportunity to lead such a mammoth sena. He has given the necessaryorders for the stay. Eventhough he was 18 years of age, he didnt want theopportunity to go out of hand. Srivallavan ordered his forces in to stay at restin stages. He split his forces in to group. The first group consited of 200forces. The have to rest with a gap of 10 meter between each soldier, 50 in a row.After that 200 soldiers a gap of 200 meters. And another group of 200 in

increamental to the previous group. It was made in such a way that even the enemyattacks the troops in a surprise manner, they will have sufficient time to react,without much loss. After seeing this arrangement, SriVallavan went to his dent.Srivallavan was thinking of entering madurai city, but for thennavans order. Eventhough he reached thirumangalam in the early morning there was no news from eitherputhuvili or thennavan till evening. By sun set Sri vallavan was rest less. Hethought that there must be something wrong has happened else how he could not getmessage from the high command. Puthuvili and thennavan must be in danger. Hethought that it is his duty to save them.

By thing the same again and again he become more rest less. The degree of hisimpatience was such that he immediately, after dinner, ordered the troops to reachand attack Madurai city. Even though he was angry, he was cleaver and sensed that

it is more important to save the Madurai King, Thennavan and puthuvili. While onthe way to madurai city he planned to siege the City and to demand release of thethree.While he was on his way, two man standing behind the trees watched him and histroops. One man said, See, because of these soldiers only the soil is still notin the hands of outsiders. Let us follow and see what this young lion can do

The other man said, It is clear from the face of Srivallavan that the Chola kingwill not see the sun rise tommorrow .

Now we have identified these two man, the first one was PVI Vikraman The greatking of Peru Vala Ilanchi and the other was Pulian.

After the dialogue, Vikraman and pulian left the scene and reached Tirumangalam,there the troops they led separately has reached just after Sri vallavan left.They ordered the troops stay a put still message comes form any of the south kingsor Senapathy and left the place to join Srivallavan at Madurai Fort siege, buthided themselves as an ordinary soldier.

Sri vallavans forces reached the fort of madurai and started to siege. Srivallavan has implemented a plan of siege that no king of that saga could not haveimagined. He put soldiers at all the doors of the fort. The supply lines to thefort was totally cut. Since the fort was recently occupied by the chola, therewill not be much ration to defend. And the fact that since maduari was conquered,the cholas are on free tour through the madurai kindom. So they are widely spread.There will not be much soldiers inside fort to challenge the siege. By the night

itself with the help of Thennavans force formed a team of 10 under the hisleadership and has jumped into the city with the help of rope. The team uponreaching inside the city, searched for the captivity of the Madurai King and othertwo.

Un expected help to reach Under Ground Jail ( Paathala chirai)

Upon jumping in to the city they split themselves in a group of 2 each and hasmade a secret code of the new mission to convey the message between themselves.



Only one day was set as the operation day. At the end of the day all should getout of the fort, paving the way for attack. Sri vallavan along with, Velan ( asixteen year old, handsome, vigorous, skillful fighter, from Tirunelveli).

The duo searched hither and tither but of no use., it was only 1 jamam (3 hours)for the sun rise. The due after moving within the fort got tired. They came neara hut, and in the varanda of that hut decided to have some sleep so that they cancontinue the search afresh. They were so tired that they immediately fell asleep,

forgot about the environment.

When the sun was slowly raised his hands, an women at his young age, Meghala asof now we may call her, came out of the hut, and started the cleaning task infront of the house. she laid a rangoli (an art, drawn at the street, in front ofthe door, using rice powder, There was an belief that the rice will feed theants.). Before, entering the house she saw the duo on the varanda. She thoughtthat the duo must be from out of the city and because of non-availability of stayanywhere they must have rested here. She went inside the hut, as usual she went tothe garden behind the hut and took the flowers out of the plant. The Garden had aWell, from that water the garden is grown. She after getting the flowers wentinside the hut and prayed lord shiva

Nama shivaya vazhga, Nathan thaal vaazhgaImai pozhuthum en nenchil neengaathaan thaal vaazhgaKokali aanda gurumanithan thaal vaazhgaAagamam aagi ninru annippaan thaal vaazhgaYegan anegan iravainadi vazhga

She may have sung a song different from the above, but it resembled the aboveThiruvasagam.

It seemed that she has finished his prayer. She sat and started cooking the mid-day meal. Dont get surprised. She has to go to the rice fields for work, she willreturn only after the sun rise. Her son, Manimaran , aged 7 years, was stillasleep. She woke him up. He hummed and fell in to sleep again. After a few attempt

she was successful woke him up. She asked him to finish his brushing and bathing.She in a glass ,made in mud, poured the Kool (liquid food). The child sucked itslowly and finished it. She took another three glasses and poured the Kool. Shetook one for herself and started drinking it. She has separately cooked the ricefor the meal. Because of the guests at the varanda, she has made it enough forfour.

The sun, by this time has showed all his hands, the land is fully ventilated. Thestreet witnessed human movement. Unusually, there was horse movement also heard onthe street. Meghala asked manimaran to wake up the guest who are still at sleep inthe varanda. Manimaran reached the varanda and shouted, Mama! Mama! Wake up. It is getting lateMamaaa! Oh! Mama! Wake up

By hearing the childs voice, Srivallavan and Velan woke up. There they saw thatMeghala was standing and smiling. Even though her dressed showed she as poor, herface showed that she is respectable. Her face resembled the peace that is of themoon. There is no word to describe her beauty. Even though she is 23 years of old.Any body will put her in to less than 18.

The duo upon seeing meghala wished her and told that they were so tired that theycould not got time to ask permission to sleep in that varanda.

It is Ok. The varanda is made for the street walkers. There is nothing in rule



to ask permission - Meghala It shows your highness Maa. Oh God! It is very late. Forgive us maa. If youdont mind, a bathing facility will be best for us. We are ready to give you themoney for that - Sri vallavan

If it is for money, then OK. How much will you give?- MeghalaBy the time of their conversation, the street witnessed troop movement and

confusion among the people. Meghala knew nothing about that so she asked the duoto get inside the hut.

Four varagan. If you offer food. In all we will give you 10 varagan. Sri vallavan

Velan was not in the mood to enjoy the conversation. His entire concentration wasat rescuing the king. So his concise was absent to analyse the situation. It sometime happens that we were in search of something. But the same thing will be infront of us. But we might have imagined the thing to be of a particular characteror size. So even if circumstances permit we will not be able to reach the thing.Velans mind was facing such an abstacle because of his concentration.

The pragmented sri vallavan was open to questions and answer. After the bath, theycame inside the hut for the Kool. By this time, Meghala asked, who they are, whattask they were up to.

After a long thought, Sri vallavan started, Maa. I am senapathi Sri vallavan and my colleque is Cavalry leader Velan. We arehere to save King Manavarman, who we belive that is in the underground jail. Butwe failed to find the location of the jail at the night.

By hearing that Manavarman was jailed, meghala shocked for a movement and got toher feet immediately.

How you are sure that Manavarman is at jail. It may be a rumour- Meghala.

By gods grace let it be a rumour. But thennavan and puthuvili opined thatmanavarman may be in captivity of cholas and asked me to attack Madurai. My forceshave already laid a siege of this fort. By evening the attack will begin. But bythe sun set we must find the king.- Sri vallavan

I will help you, if your statements are true. I know the secret path whichreaches the under ground jail- Meghala

It came to the mind of velan that,Kannai nambaathey. Unnai yemattrum. Unmai illaathathu. Arivai nee nambu,

adayaalam kaattum. Poiye sollaathathu.

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