from the past

    മെട്രിക്‍  അളവുക‍ള്‍                       

1963  ഏപ്രില്‍  1 മുതല്‍   പഴയ രീതികളില്‍ പെട്ട   ആഴക്ക്‍, ഉഴക്ക്‍,  ഉരി, തുടം,  നാഴി, ഇടങ്ങഴി,  പക്ക,  പറ   എന്നീ  ദ്രാവക, ധാന്യ  അളവ് പാത്രങ്ങള്‍   ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത് നിയമ വിരുദ്ധമായിത്തീര്‍ന്നു.  പകരം  മില്ലിലിറ്റര്‍,  ലിറ്റര്‍  എന്നീ പുതിയ അളവുപാത്രങ്ങള്‍  പ്രചാരത്തില്‍  വന്നു.

       മെട്രിക്‍  സമ്പ്രദായം   ലാളിത്യത്തിനും   ഏകരൂപതയ്‍ക്കും
                                                   ( പരസ്യം)

                                  മാറ്റപ്പട്ടിക

                                     തിരുവിതാംകൂര്‍             കൊച്ചി             മലബാര്‍
                                  ലി:    മി.ലി:                ലി:  മി.ലി                    ലി:  മി.ലി::
വടിപ്പന്‍ പറ             13-----110                   12 -----500                 11----900             
 
ഇടങ്ങഴി                      1.---   310                 1----200                       1----190

നാഴി                            0 ------330                 0-----310                      0--- 300

             1  പറയ്‍ക്കു  പകരം       10 ലിറ്റര്‍  ഉപയോഗിക്കുക.

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   The cultural history of Koothattukulam dates back to the era of Buddhism and Jainism. Koothattukulam, thus, has an illustrious cultural history and the same is reflected in its very name, which suggests that this must have been a land of 'kooth' and 'aattam'-(Keralathile Stalacharitrangal).

Kallil is a rock-cut temple in central Kerala.  It is located a few miles east of Perumbavur in Ernakulam district near Odakali.  According to historians like V V K Valath and P K Gopalakrishnan who have done extensive field studies and archival research in the local history of Ernakulam district it was a Jain temple till the7th or 8th century.  The early 20th century commentators have also pointed out the Jain ancestry of the Kallil Pisharady.

In the ancient Tamilakam Adikal denoted a Jain sage as in Ilanko Adikal the legendary Jain saint (who was the brother of Cheran Chenguttuvan the Chera emperor), who composed The Silapathikaram the Tamil Sramana epic at (Thrikana)Mathilakam, a few miles west of Kallil near the coast and north of Kodungallur also known as the ancient port of Vanchi or Muziris. It can be reasonably assumed that this rock structure was converted into a Hindu temple after the onslaught of Brahmanism that wiped out Buddhist and Jain cultures from Kerala in the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries through coveted  royal patronage and usurpation.  The historians record that the idols of Mahavira, Parswanatha and Padmavathi Devi were found from the temple.  We can still see the relief of the Jaina Thirthankara on the rock surface above the front opening.

Edakkal Cave Carving and megaliths at Muniyara

 IT IS SAID THAT HERCULES KILLED TWO SNAKES AT A TIME WHEN HE WAS A CHILD...... AN OLD PICTURE.

British Army Polo Team

 

Marble Statuette Of Asclepius, Greece,400-200BC