Comments on: Pulakeshi II - 2

By: Sanganagouda

Sanganagouda — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:57:10 +0000

Thanks. you have written my mind. pulakeshi must be very much admired by we kannadigas. but his death was painful. In kannada there is a proverb “oLLetanavannu saavinalli nODu”(ಒಳ್ಳೆತನವನ್ನು ಸಾವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡು). since his death was painful people hesitate a bit to show prowdness about him, its my opinion. but parameshwara pulakeshi’s grandson vikramaditya defeated pallavas again but this time he didnt kill anybody but tried win people’s heart he got an inscription written in kannada on the walls of “someshwara” temple which now in tamilnadu. you could have written little more. and please write about vikramaaditya.

By: December Stud

December Stud — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:04:35 +0000

Very nice piece, interesting enough.

Well, inspite of PDCS’ claim that he is more well read than I am (nah, it’s actually my claim ), I come back for more debates.

I assume the first paragraph is just your “opinion”, right ? My take - It is definitely not true that Pulakeshi II hasn’t captured the attention of Kannadigas as much as the other four. Krishnadevaraya, sure, but the other 3. Nope…..”maybe” Vishnuvardhana, courtesy Shantala. But, Amoghavarsh in that list….come oooooon ? By Kannadigas, I assume you are not talking about just the educated ones here (or, I should say literates).

Another point which I would like to argue is the your claim that Pulakeshi does not hold the same romantic appeal that Mayura Sharma (for reasons unknown to me, I prefer the Sharma to Verma….LOL) does. Why ? courtesy Rajkumar ??? Come on. I can bet more people know about Pulakeshi defeating Harshavardhana thna Mayura Sharma defeating the Pallavas.

I don’t want to discuss Kannada “nationalism”, but in genreal hats off to the Chalukyas for the development of local language. As for the growth of Kannada as a language, nobody should dispute the fact (wow, that’s a joke, we’ll never know the facts per se) that Chalukyas laid the foundation for the development of Kannada and Rashtrakutas improved upon it. Be it Ravikirthi or Mangalesha’s shAsana, they were in Kannada. Well, the language itself was Sanskrit, but the lipi was Kannada (haLe haLegannaDa).

You call Mangalesha as ambitious. I don’t know, wasn’t he the model brother to Kirtiverma ? Maybe the power just went to his head (literally). How can a brother who was so loyal suddenly become a bad uncle ? Nothing but power would do that. Well, maybe you are right….maybe Mangalesha was ambitious. I just don’t know if that is the right word though.

Very well written PDCS. It could have been a little longer with more info. I would have enjoyed it.

Thanks for provoking

By: PDCS

PDCS — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:27:21 +0000

Yeah, I do have larger versions and i should post those.

By: hpn

hpn — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:52:46 +0000

nice write-up! But the image of maps are too small. Is there larger versions of those?

By: Shashikiran

Shashikiran — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:29:45 +0000

Thanks for a very engaging account of this hero. I have always been fascinated by his triumph over Harsha; his end at the hands of the Chola is a sad piece of history for me.