ISSUE 2 | VOLUME 4 | February 2018

மாதாꏍத செ뿍鎿மட쯍

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Tamil King

16th chapter of Mahavamsam (The Great Chronicle), (Tamil: , Thai Pongal is a harvest translated in to Tamil by late எ쯍லாளꟍ translit. Ellāḷaṉ) was a festival dedicated to the Sun Mr. Sivarasa Nallaratnam. God. It is a four-day festival The Mahavamsam is an epic member of the Tamil Chola which according to the Tamil poem written in the dynasty, who upon capturing calendar is usually celebrated language of the bikku’s of Sri the throne became king of from January 14 to January 17. Lanka. the Kingdom, in present-day , from 205-161 BCE.

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VTSCBS Monthly Newsletter | December 2017 | Volume 3 | Issue 11

ஜனவ쎿 மாதாꏍத埍 埂翍ட믍 13 - ஜனவ쎿 - 2018

லையில் வழலைப ோை எை鏁 கழக அங்கத்தவர்கள் திருைதி அங்கத்தவர்கள் எல்பைோரும் ஓன்று ரம்பசோதி தோயோர் இறந்த தினத்லத கூடினோர்கள். கோலை 11.00 ைணியளힿல் முன்னிட்翁 வந்தவர்களுக்埁 இைவச ைத்திய திரு சோம் 殿வம் அவர்களோல் கூட்டம் ப ோசனம் வழங்கப் ட்ட鏁. ஆரம்பித்鏁 லவக்கப் ட்ட鏁. ힿருந்தினர்கலள வரபவற்ற鏁டன் கூட்டம் ஆரம் ைோன鏁. ததோடர்ந்鏁 பிரம்ைோ 埁ைோரி அலைப்பினர் தங்கள் பநரத்லதயும், 殿ரைத்லதயும் ோரோ鏁 கூட்டம் ததோடங்垿யவுடன் முதலில் நம்முடன் ைோதோந்தம் வழங்埁ம் தியோனமும் ஆன்므க வோழ்ந்鏁 உயிர் ꏀத்த தமிழ் தநஞ்சங்கள் உலரயும் நலடத ற்ற鏁. முதிபயோ埁க்埁 அத்தலன ப ருக்埁ம் ஒரு நிமிட பநரம் தியோனமும் ஆன்மிக உலரயும் மிகவும் பிடித்த தைௌன அஞ்சலி தசலுத்தப் ட்ட鏁. ힿடயைோக அலைந்鏁 வரு垿ன்ற鏁. அங்கத்தவர்களோல் பகட்கப் ட அதலனத் ததோடந்鏁 கழக உறுப்பினர்கள் பகள்ힿகளுக்埁 தக்க தில்கலள சபகோதரர் தமிழர் கைோச்சோரப் டி த ோங்கல் அழகர்சோமி அவர்கள் வழங்垿னோர். அதலன த ோங垿னோர்கள். ோல் த ோங垿யவுடன் ததோடர்ந்鏁 ைத்திய ப ோசனம் இடம் த ற்ற鏁. ஒவ்தவோரு கழக உறுப்பினரும் அரி殿 த ோங்கலை ஆரம்பித்鏁 லவத்தோர்கள். நன்றி. தசல்ힿ பிறனோளி பைோகநோதன் keyboard வோ殿த்தோர்.அதலன ததோடர்ந்鏁 திருைதி திரு. 毁ந்தரலிங்கம் ரம்பசோதி அவர்கள் க்தி ோடல்களுடன் தசயைோளர் 殿றப்புலர ஆற்றினோர்.

VTSCBS’ Monthly Meeting 13 - January - 2018

ictoria Tamil Senior Citizens Benevolent Mrs Paramsothy sang devotional songs and Society (VTSBS) cunducted its gave a speech. Volunteer members from the November monthly meeting on Saturday the Brahmma Kumaris organisation delivered the 11th of November. The meeting started at spiritual discourse and follwed by monthly 11:00 am with welcoming the members and meditation session. guests by Mr. Sambasivam. The society paid a minute silence tribute to past members and The lunch was provided to all members by elders. The function was started with the Paramsothy family in memory of Mrs lighting of tradiontioanl oil lamp. Paramsothy’s mother.

As per the Tamil tradiotion, each and every Mr. Suntharalingam member participated in cooking ‘Pongal’ and Secretary. followed by kebyboard instrumental music by Miss Pranalli Loganathan.

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Lighting of Traditional Lamp

Top left to bottom right: Welsome speech, Keyboard playing by Pranalli, Birthday celebration of Mr Sambasivam and Speech by Mr. Azhagarsamy from Brahma Kumaries.

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Thai pongal (Tamil harvest festivall) Celeberation.

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Tamil King Ellalan execution of his son on the basis of a heinous religious crime. Ellalan (Tamil: எ쯍லாளꟍ, translit.

Ellāḷaṉ) was a member of the Tamil Ellalan is a peculiar figure in the history , who upon capturing the of Sri Lanka and one with particular throne became king of the resonance given the ongoing ethnic , in present-day strife in the country. Although he was Sri Lanka, from 205-161 BCE. an invader, he is often regarded as one

of Sri Lanka's wisest and most just Ellāḷaṉ is traditionally presented as monarchs, as highlighted in the ancient being a just king even by the Sinhalese. Sinhalese Pali chronicle, the The Mahavamsa states that he ruled Mahavamsa. 'with even justice toward friend and foe, on occasions of disputes at law, and According to the chronicle, even Ellalan elaborates how he even ordered the nemesis had a great

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respect for him, consumed by the war between the two. and ordered a Ellalan was near seventy years when the monument be battle with the young Dutugamunu took built where place. Ellalan was cremated after The Mahavamsa contains a fairly dying in battle. detailed account of sieges and battles The Dakkhina that took place during the conflict. was Particularly interesting is the extensive believed to be use of war and of flaming the tomb of pitch in the battles. Ellalan's own war Ellalan. Often is said to have been Maha referred to as 'the Just King', the Tamil Pabbatha , or 'Big Rock' and the name Ellāḷaṉ means 'the one who rules Dutugamunu's own being 'Kandula. the boundary". The climactic battle is said to have Birth and early life occurred as Dutugamunu drew close to Anuradhapura. On the night before, Ellāḷaṉ is described in the Mahavamsa both King Ellalan and prince as being "A Tamila of noble Dutugamunu are said to have conferred descent...from the Chola-country"; Little with their counsellors. The next day is known of his early life. Around 205 both kings rode forwards on war BCE, Ellāḷaṉ mounted an invasion of the elephants. Dutugamunu closed on based in Anuradhapura in Ellāḷaṉ at the south gate of northern Sri Lanka and defeated the Anuradhapura, where the two engaged forces of king Asela of Anuradhapura, in an elephant-back duel and the aged establishing himself as sole ruler of king was finally felled by one of Rajarata. Dutugamunu's darts.

He has been mentioned in the Following his death, Dutugamunu and . ordered that Ellāḷaṉ be cremated where His name has since then been used as a he had fallen, and had a monument metaphor for fairness and justice in constructed over the place. The . His capital was Mahavamsa mentions that 'even to this . day the princes of Lanka, when they draw near to this place, are wont to Defeat and death silence their music'. The Dakkhina Stupa was until the 19th century Despite Ellāḷaṉ's famously even-handed believed to have been the tomb of rule, resistance to him coalesced around Ellalan and was called Elara Sohona, the figure of Dutugamunu, a young but was renamed later on by the Sri Sinhalese prince from the kingdom of Lankan Department of Archaeology. Mahagama. Towards the end of Ellalan's The identification and reclassification is reign, Dutugamunu had strengthened considered controversial. his position in the south by defeating his own brother, Saddha Tissa, who Influence challenged him. Confrontation between the two monarchs was inevitable and The Mahavamsa contains numerous the last years of Ellalan's reign were references to the loyal troops of the

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Chola empire and portrays them as a of his courtroom for anyone needing powerful force. They held various justice to ring. One day, he came out on positions including taking custody of hearing the ringing of the bell by a cow. temples during the period of Upon enquiry, he found that the calf of and Vijayabahu I of that cow had been killed under the . There were instances wheels of his chariot. In order to provide when the Sinhalese kings tried to justice to the cow, Ellalan killed his own employ them as mercenaries by son, Veedhividangan, under the chariot renaming a section of the most hardcore as his own punishment i.e. Ellalan fighters as Mahatantra. According to made himself suffer as much as the cow. historian Burton Stein, when these Impressed by the justice of the king, troops were directed against the Chola Lord Shiva blessed him and brought empire, they rebelled and were back the calf and his son alive. He has suppressed and decommissioned. But been mentioned in the Silappatikaram they continued to exist in a passive state and Periya Puranam. His name has by taking up various jobs for livelihood. since then been used as a metaphor for The Valanjayara, a sub-section of the fairness and justice in Tamil literature. Velaikkara troops, were one such His capital was Thiruvarur. community, who in the course of time became traders. They were so powerful The Mahavamsa also states that when that the shrine of the tooth-relic was he was riding his cart he accidentally hit entrusted to their care. When the a Chetiya. After that he ordered his Velaikkara troops took custody of the ministers to kill him but the ministers tooth-relic shrine, they renamed it as replied that Buddha would not approve Mūnrukai-tiruvēlaikkāran daladāy such an act. The king asked what he perumpalli. There are also multiple should do to rectify the damage and they epigraphic records of the Velaikkara said that repairing the structure would troops. In fact it is their inscriptions, for be enough which is what he did. example the one in Polunnaruwa, that are actually used to fix the length of the Chronicles such as the Yalpana Vaipava reign of Sinhalese kings; in this case, Malai and stone inscriptions like Vijayabahu I (55 years). Konesar Kalvettu recount that Kulakkottan, an early Chola king and The Legend of Manu Needhi Cholan descendant of Manu Needhi Cholan, was the restorer of the ruined Ellalan received the title "Manu Needhi and tank at Cholan" (the Chola who follows Justice) in 438, the Munneswaram because he executed his own son to temple of the west coast, and as the provide justice to a cow. Legend has it royal who settled ancient Vanniyars in that the king hung a giant bell in front the east of the island .

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Next monthly meeting and get-together of Victorian Tamil Senior Citizens Benevolent Society Australia Inc. will be held on Saturday, 10th of March 2018 from 10:30 am onwards at Glen Waverley Community Centre, 700 Waverley Street, Glen Waverley, VIC 3150. The society has organised various entertainments and informative sessions including:  Spiritual speech and mediation by Brahma Kumaries organisation  Cultural programs  Yoga session to refresh your mind  Indoor games for Seniors

The society welcomes everyone to participate in this meeting. The location (map) of Glen Waverley Community Centre is printed on the next page.

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Location of Glen Waverley Community Centre: 700 Waverley Road, Glen Waverley VIC 3150

Are you are a Tamil senior living in Victoria, please join us and enjoy the company of other like minded Tamil seniors and to revisit the rich cultural heritage of Tamil.

Please visit our website www.tscbs.org.au and provide your feedback.