It is considered one of the five great Tamil epics according to later Tamil literary tradition, the others being Manimegalai, Silappadikaram, Valayapathi and Kundalakesi.

Gajabahu I was a friend of Cheran Chenkuttuvan and was mentioned in the great Jain epic of Silappadikaram and in addition to that he was also mentioned in Mahawamsa.

Surviving texts of the golden age of Tamil literature and poetry known during the Sangam Age such as the Tolkappiyam ( த ொ ல ் கப ் ப ி யம ்), as well as the later Silappadikaram ( ச ி லப ் பத ி கரம ்), testify to a variety of dance traditions which flourished in these times.

The Silappadikaram is a mine of information of ancient Tamil culture and society, in which the arts of music and dance were highly developed and played a major role.

Poetic references from works like Silappadikaram indicate that during the Sangam period in ancient Tamil Nadu, a single piece of clothing served as both lower garment and head covering, leaving the breasts and midriff completely uncovered.

Ilango Adigal, author of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram, was among the notable royal patrons of the Jain religion in Kerala.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

Calling Marxism " a truly messianic Judaeo-Christian ideology ", Eliade writes that Marxism " takes up and carries on one of the great eschatological myths of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean world, namely: the redemptive part to be played by the Just ( the ' elect ', the ' anointed ', the ' innocent ', the ' missioners ', in our own days the proletariat ), whose sufferings are invoked to change the ontological status of the world ".

In the same year Thomas Underdowne dedicated his translation of the Æthiopian History of Heliodorus to Oxford, praising his ' haughty courage ', ' great skill ' and ' sufficiency of learning '.

He considered ' These phantasies include a great deal of the true constitutional essence of the subject's personality ' and that the energetic man ' is one who succeeds by his efforts in turning his wishful phantasies into reality ', while the artist ' can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis '.

Cukor quickly earned a reputation as a director who could coax great performances from actresses and he became known as a ' woman's director ', a title he resented.

' Spot-ons ', shampoos and powders work well, but great care should be observed as it is easy to miss a spot where the fleas can hide.

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).

Reality confronts a man with a great many ' must's ', but all of them are conditional: the formula of realistic necessity is: ' you must, if –' and the if stands for man's choice: ' if you want to achieve a certain goal '.

In his first official trade as GM, he shocked Giants fans by trading Matt Williams to Cleveland for what newspapers referred to as a ' bunch of spare parts ', with the negative reaction being great enough for him to have to publicly explain: " I didn't get to this point by being an idiot ...

Morton gave a statement, later known as ' Morton's Fork ', that no one was to be exempted from taxes: " If the subject is seen to live frugally, tell him because he is clearly a money saver of great ability, he can afford to give generously to the King.

He didn't ' paint them to death ', as many of his contemporaries did, in their great accuracy and diligence whether requested by their clients or not.

Accion ( Ocean ) in the fourth century Gaulish Latin of Rufus Avienus ', Ora maritima, was applied to great lakes.

Marriage is treated like a business transaction, something which involves great sums of money ' behind the scenes ', and is often looked on as a father selling a " commodity " to a suitor.

There was great diversity amongst such labels, some were entirely ' bedroom based ', utilising new home tape copying technologies ( see below ) whilst others were more organised, functioning in a similar way to more established record labels.

Margaret Thatcher, on receiving the news, hailed him as ' a very remarkable man and a very great patriot ', and said that his dislike of ' selling the family silver ' had never come between them.

The prestige of Tiberias was so great that the sea of Galilee soon came to be named the sea of Tiberias ; however, what would now be called Jewish zealots continued to call it ' Yam Ha-Kinerett ', its traditional name.

* In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, set during Holmes's three-year fake ' death ', Holmes encounters Moriarty during his trip in Tibet, where he learns that Moriarty is actually the Dark One, a former Tibetian mystic possessing great psychic powers who lost his memories in an attack on the Dalai Lama, only for his near-death experience on the Reichenbach Falls to restore his memory, albeit leaving him horribly crippled and disfigured by his injuries.

Weather never held the scouts back from the ' great outdoors ', and Fianna members could be encountered in all weathers, especially in the Dublin / Wicklow mountains.

According to her son Madison, while young, the children " were permitted to stay about the ' great house ', and only required to do such light work as going on errands.

He bore a great reputation for conviviality ', and wrote a humorous Latin version of the popular ballad A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, etc.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both gave the film a ' thumbs down ', commenting that while the film had great special effects, it lacked any real substance or character depth.

The immense, overwhelming presence of Gormenghast Castle ; its ' umbrageous ceilings ', its ' empire of red rust ' and the way in which it shapes and deforms the personalities of those who dwell in and under it, marks Gormenghast out as one of the great Gothic edifices, as Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

He is presently doing a pivotal role in a Tamil film titled ' Aravaan ', directed by Vasanthabalan, who is critically acclaimed for his earlier films Angaadi Theru and Veyil.

Other local names include Persian anâr, Hindi / Urdu and Punjabi ' anar ', anaar, Sanskrit darima, dadima, Bengali dalim, bedana, Tamil madulai, and Romanian rodie.

These territories soon came to be known as the ' Nizam's Dominions ', which ( in the year 1760 ) included areas from south of Maharashtra to the southern end of Tamil Nadu, encompassing vast territories in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan Government declared an end to two decades of armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ), who had been seeking a separate homeland, or ' Eelam ', for Tamils in the north and east of the country.

In the 14th century, Tamil literature ' Kokasandesam ', references about a place called Kuruvayur is made.

In 2008, the state of Tamil Nadu recognised the " Third Gender "; with its civil supplies department giving in the ration card a provision for a new sex column as ' T ', distinct from the usual ' M ' and ' F ' for males and females respectively.

* Dirks, Nicholas B, ' Recasting Tamil Society: The Politics of Caste and Race in Contemporary Southern India ', in C J Fuller ( ed.

The name of the town in Tamil is ' Paruthithurai ', and has been in use from time immemorial.

The Tamil term samadharmam was used to translate ' socialist ', but nowadays the English term is used.

Ayyavazhi ( Tamil: அய ் ய ா வழ ி Malayalam: അയ ് യ ാ വഴ ി Ayyava < u > l </ u > i, The ' zhi ' ( ழ ி) portion of the word, ' Ayyavazhi ', is a retroflex, and it is correctly transliterated according to the National Library at Kolkata romanization as ayyava < u > l </ u > i .</ ref > -" Path of the father ") is a dharmic belief system that originated in South India.

H2 subjects offered in MI are: Art & Design, Economics, Literature, History, Geography, Chinese ' A ', Malay ' A ', Tamil ' A ', Management Of Business, Principles Of Accounting, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology.

She will be co-starring in ' Essence ', the pilot for Blue Hours ' revival of the classic radio anthology " Suspense ", as well as in other upcoming productions.

He led many courses for physicians and wrote in 1964 the classic book: ' Findings in Hypnosis ', later to be re-titled ' Hypnotherapy ' ( published by Westwood Publishing ).

They were assisted in this by a group of friends and associates who helped to sculpt the classic Roxy Music ' look ', notably fashion designer Antony Price, hair stylist Keith Mainwaring, photographer Karl Stoecker, the group's " PR consultant " Simon Puxley ( a former university friend of Mackay's ) and Ferry's art school classmate Nicholas De Ville.

Skateboarding was popularized by the 1986 skateboarding cult classic Thrashin ', also known as Skate Gang directed by David Winters.

* In the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classic ' Top Hat ', Jerry Travers ( played by Astaire ), sprinkles sand on the floor and dances a slow dance, helping Dale Tremont ( played by Rogers ) sleep.

Until the mid-1970s, Stotts City bore a remarkable resemblance to the classic movie ' western town ', with its wide main street and rows of buildings with false fronts.

Evolution features their first top 20 hit, " Lovin ', Touchin ', Squeezin '", which was inspired by the classic Sam Cooke tune " Nothin ' Can Change This Love ".

Pugin later dismissed the building saying ' All Grecian, Sir, Tudor details on a classic body ', the essentially symmetrical plan and river front being offensive to Pugin's taste for medieval gothic buildings.

He also began recording his album Strange Cargo III, from which the track ' Water From A Vine Leaf ', written with his ex-girlfriend Beth Orton, became an underground classic.

He has created a series of classical renditions ' Pieces in a Modern Style ', from which came the club classic ' Adagio For Strings, Ferry Corsten mix '.

Among others, Sandy worked with Nick Bridges from Ministry of Sound, Jon Pearn of Full Intention and Amanda Wilson from Freemasons-the singer of hits Love on my Mind, Watchin ', and Bromance, writing and co-producing the classic Hed Kandi club hit " Intoxicated " performed by R. A. W.

In order to avoid ambiguity, classic cars that are eligible for the CCCA are generally called ' CCCA Full Classics ', ' CCCA Classics ', ' Full Classics ', or just capitalized as ' Classics '.

" This time, we're taking some new directions with our songs, and we're exploring different styles ," they stated, " There is a definite classic rock vibe on some of the tracks ... a tip of the hat to groovin ', funkin ' 1970s rock songs-but ones we have bought into the here and now.

" The Farmer in the Dell " known in some regions as ' The Farmer Wants A Wife ', provides the famous chant of " Ee Aye Addio ", a tune which also provides the first bars of the 1946 be-bop jazz classic " Now's The Time ", by alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Ohio University is designed around a central ' green ', based upon the classic layout of traditional England and New England towns and similar to university quadrangles.

* The couplet " Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso / Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso " seems to flub the name ' Pablo Picasso ', noted painter and personality of the 1930s,

In the classic book, Eye and Brain by Gregory, for example, the lens is said to be suspended by a membrane, the ' zonula ', which holds it under tension.

Their upcoming 2012 Season consists of an original musical ' STALKYARD HURTS: The 2012 End of the World Reunion Tour ', ' GODSPELL ' the classic broadway musical, and a provincial tour of their smash hit from last season ' ALECK BELL: A Canadian Pop Rock Musical '.

Some fascinating, ' classic ', questions of philosophy are speculative and theoretical and concern the nature of knowledge, reality and human existence: for example, " What, if anything, can be known with certainty?

The place of functionalism in building can be traced back to the Vitruvian triad, where ' utilitas ' ( variously translated as ' commodity ', ' convenience ', or ' utility ') stands alongside ' venustas ' ( beauty ) and ' firmitas ' ( firmness ) as one of three classic goals of architecture.