![]() His horse tired after a long journey was walking slowly. His name was Vallavaraiyan Vandhiyathevan. He belonged to the Varnar tribe famous in the military history of Tamil Nadu. On the eighteenth day of the month of July a brave young man was traveling by horse along the shore of Veeranarayanapura Lake that spread like the ocean. Did our ancestors consider their welfare and that of the people of their time alone? Didn’t they through their work show their consideration for the generations that would follow them in their mother country for millenniums? Those who see Veeranarayana Lake in the months of July and August when it stands flooded with the monsoon rain, cannot fail to contemplate with pride and awe their Tamil Nadu ancestors’ ingenious endeavors. It is about fourteen miles long north-south and four miles wide east-west. The name having undergone the ravages of time it is now known as Veeranathu Lake. On the south side of Thirumunaipadi Nadu situated between Thondai Nadu and Chola Nadu, twenty miles west of Thillaichittampalam there is a lake that spreads like the ocean. ![]() At the speed of a hundred years per minute let’s go back nine hundred and eighty two years. We invite our friends to take a ride in the boat of imagination to travel the limitless flood of time. Translated from the novel Ponniyin Selvan written by Kalki Krishnamoorthy.
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