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Kalki
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October 17 - October 17, 2022
Men who get married to younger women dwell in a world where suspicion reigns supreme.
Later after many years when Arulmozhivarmar (Raja Raja Cholan) was crowned the king, he would bestow the entire village of Annaimangalam as a tax-free gift to the Choodamani Viharam and would inscribe this royal decree as a copper plaque for posterity. Today, these edicts can be seen at Leiden Museum in Holland and therefore they are also known as Leiden Plates.
Life is strange. This was a living man or woman once whose heart was brimming with dreams, hopes, ambitions and aspirations but in another hour or so, all that would remain, would be a mound of ash. It didn’t matter whether he was a beggar or a king whilst living, one day their body would feed the fire.
He was around 40 years of age and a widower. His first wife had died, many years ago and since then, he didn’t wish to marry anybody else. However, his chaste heart became restless after meeting me.
Brahma and Vishnu taking pride in their prowess, tried to establish supremacy over each other claiming that they were powerful than the other. Shiva interjected in this fight and became a long pillar of fire and asked Vishnu to find his feet and Brahma to find his head. Vishnu took the form of a wild boar and dug through the ground to find the feet, while Brahma turned into a swan and flew high to find the head. Vishnu came back and accepted that the pillar of fire was endless and that he was unsuccessful, while Brahma lied and said that he had seen the head. Enraged by his lie, Lord Shiva
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“Thiruvallur advices the king to keep his spies, working all the time. Just as he needs to know what his enemies are doing; he also needs to know what his own family members are doing as well.”
He also says that Kings ought to learn what their spies are doing through other spies.
