What did archeologists find hidden in the Maligaimedu excavation site? | The Hindu
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- This is no ordinary ornament. It is a piece of bracelet, which is at least 1000 years old. It once belonged to the mighty Cholas who ruled south Indian peninsula.
This ornament, made of gold and copper, was retrieved in March 2022 at Maligaimedu, an archaeological site in Tamil Nadu
In February 2022 Tamil Nadu’s chief Minister M.K. Stalin virtually launched archeological excavations in multiple locations including Maligaimedu. It is a well-known excavation site 6 kilometers from Gangaikondacholapuram in Tamil Nadu.
Gangaikondacholapuram was King Rajendra Chola’s capital city. Here he also built a temple for Lord Shiva following his father, Rajaraja Cholan's footsteps. This temple is one of the Great living Chola temples which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Temples from that era have survived time and invasions. But what happened to palaces?
The discovery of a few brick structures and other artifacts in 1980 and the subsequent excavations at Maligaimedu answer this question.
Maligai means palace and medu is a mound. The Archeology department found 13 coarse brick walls which are remains of a royal palace. This is believed to be Rajendra Chola’s palace.
Since then, there have been several rounds of excavations in the trenches at Maligaimedu. Through the years, archeologists have been able to unearth shards of pottery, coins, iron and copper objects.
Pieces of a Chinese celedon ware, belonging to the 10 or 11th century, was also found indicating Chola-Chinese trade and ties.
The excavations are being carried on in a very systematic manner with utmost care to not damage the discoveries. The digging process starts only after several surveys are conducted with drones, thermal cameras and underground radars. The current round of excavations are likely to continue till September 2022.
Encouraging discoveries like the Chola bracelet within a month of beginning the excavation process has created high curiosity to find out what else lies buried in Maligaimedu.
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Chapters:
00:00 - 00:31 - Introduction
00:32 - 1:23 - What is Maligaimedu?
1:23 - 2:21 - What has been discovered at Maligaimedu?
2:21 - 3:12 - Excavation process
#CholaBracelet #Maligaimedu #Excavation
The narrator’s Thamizh pronouncing is excellent!! Please continue!! Vazha thamizh!! Valarha thamizh pulamayum! Perumayum!! Actually Chief Minister. Mr. Stalin is actually doing something priceless!!! Thank you Sir!!!
I m North Indian but I love watching South Indian movies, music , and now archeological things ...... cultural rich heritage of the world is south..... I visited Tirupati and astonished to see the vast clean temple and the deity’s beautiful temple complex
Come to tamilnadu and visit the temples here you excite more ! We have 1000 year old temple be thanjai and more older temples here !
@@Er.Mohanbharathi1997 sure I will come and visit
@@Er.Mohanbharathi1997 tirupati is well maintained temple despite of heavy inflow of pilgrims. More than 1lac people visit the temple everyday. Which should be appreciated! Tamilnad temple architecture and size are very huge. Every temple is unique but temple board are highly corrupted and not well maintained. It sometimes worries us as we may lose such a huge heritage
North was discredited and distorted by Mulgal invaders 70000 times in the last 700 years .
Tirupati was also built by an tamil king 👑..
Glad to see someone actually pronouncing the "zha" sounds instead of substituting it with "la".
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It happens with every dialect, pronouncing words belonging to specific regions. However, I don’t mind anyone pronouncing my name incorrectly. Atleast we Indians can speak minimum 3 languages, it’s not common outside India. The mouth palate develops in childhood when a child starts pronouncing words with tongue, lips, jaws and palate. The minute changes which are not visible physiologically, but their existence is certain. This is why the most universal English is spoken in different ways. In western India it is called “lehka”
Exactly
Probably she is tamizh or keralite.
Hindu news paper is from Tamilnadu
I have always wondered that we only have the temples built by the Cholas, but where are the palaces or cities from the Chola era. I hope that in coming times we will get that information too.
I think either they don't spend much of palaces or it would have been destroyed by enemies whereas temples are not destroyed and also protected by those subsequent kings.
Most of them are destroyed by either pandiyas or northern india rulers or during muslim empire you can see only shiva temples survives as both chola and pandiyas are god shiva followers so they never destroyed the temple it survived. And some temples are older than 1000 years are still in tamilnadu but due to goverment have not taken any special status to that all stones statues are stollen , if there is no statue no people will visit there so it lost its true value. Many histories are burried inside indian govt or state govt are not showing intrest or eager to know the history just follows what british taught us. All histories before british rule were destroyed.
Keeladi research proves it's the place u der Pandiya Kingdom not Chola. Cholas were the rulers of North Tamilakam
Ohhh that spikes my intrest, finally a palace of the great Cholas!!!!
Thank you for being direct and not dragging this video out unnecessarily.
Thanks for your clear தமிழ் pronunciation 😇👍
I think she is Tamilan because its difficult to pronounce zhagara for others but she did it perfect.
I just hate how the initial Arab invaders and later the British ruined Indias cultural and heritage sites. Even Aurangazeb must be included. Rest of the Mughals were fair.
Except humayun and akbar all were bad.
Babur was a plunderer like the earlier sultans, jahangir was a drug addict, shahjahan didn't care about kingdom. His islamist ministers ran it.
Fair?. They were not fair.
Ah yes, akbar and babur, the "fair" muslims 🤡
No they weren't.
Not Arab , they were Central Asia Turkic hordes
Kudos to Stalin government for funding this project, After ASI ditched the excavation at Tamil Nadu sites.
Yes and also Kudos to Stalin and DMK for demolishing 150 Hindu temples while keeping in tact all churches and mosques
@@SR-mv2mf stop spreading fake news
Hope Stalin continues excavation even after he finds artifacts dating well beyond 2000 BCE. Becos that punctures his Dravidian theory.
@@hariniswaminathan6494 How come?
@@Xoro-rbk I live in Tamil Nadu so I know better than you faker
Great civilization
Great Hinduism🕉️
Respect our culture and religion🙏🙏
It was also discovered that dravidian traces were found in indus Valley civilization too...
We need to give this survey to the archeological department of India as they are we equipped and precise than these local governments
அருமை
தமிழ் வாழ்க
Please spread the good work and our Legacy.
Thank you "THE HINDU" helping a lot....
Thanks for posting. Good to see CM Stalin pushing for deeper understanding of our heritage
ROFL 😂
@@padmaoruganti9179 LOL. He would love to bury the shaivite secular cholas if he could.
@@padmaoruganti9179 *Bruh💀 brahmin whamen triggered... என்ன மாமி பொச் எரிச்சலா😕*
@@THIRUMALAI_3612 I guess you think atalantis was tamil . lol!!
@@bharathsf dinosour also used speak Tamil.
Very good info. We must bring this new info in our education system so that more and more understanding about the message will be known to the new generation. All unwanted epics should be taken out. 🇮🇳🙏
@rupesh v chola was a Hindu kingdom, you fool 🤣
Which unwanted epic r u talking about?
And which epic is there in education system in the first place?
@@himanshugurjar9002 Was thinking the same. As in “whats this guy talking about?”. 😂
@@thethirddoor5480 he is a convert, do not worry. They'll address Hindus as "vibuthi laden donkeys" and we must take it without protest.
Very informative. I would like to see more from TheHindu
We Need Much more Archeological Expert and Capacity There are Thousands of Undiscovered sites and History in India. We Now just have History Written by Opinion Historians who Write history as Their Opinion.
Do you think they are hiding it?
^ hiding? No they are outrightly lying.
@@FilesdocumentsAndreposit-kr3vb why the need to lie? Is the truth that dangerous to them?
@@HOWARD963_ the predominating narrative is either God created the world 5-6000 years ago or that we all evolved from monekys. Both are false.
@@HOWARD963_ Not necessarily dangerous. Its laziness and ego.
They keep running their old theories and r averse to new developments.
Fearful of being proved wrong.
And in some ways dangerous too.
PROUD TO BE AN THAMIZAN 👌
thank you Indian education system for never teaching about the great kings like Vikramaditya and Lalitadiya and many more great Indian kings.
@Arun shiva samy exactly 😇
you are not an Indian you are just a separatist who needs to be thrown out of the country.
See here also people started regional feeling . You people never change, narrow mentality.
@@bhagavatulavenkatanarayana3713 it's actually a fault of our education system and the media. Most people think north Indians are different from south Indians, and north east is also not monotonous with India. But the truth is, each and every Indian has the same Ancestor. Many researchers have concluded this.
Who tf are they?
@Arun shiva samy cholas are not as great as moughals or guptas or mauryans or mamuluks or even rashtrakutas or cjalukyas.. cholas were just small regional powers.
Thanks alot the Hindu
As a Punjabi all I can say is that Gov needs to change our Education books..they never teaches u about great Indian Kingdoms Such as Cholas, Vijayanagra Empire, Karkota's and many more..except few lines...these leftiest kabal has bombarded our education system with Mughals and other invaders..I was lucky I had interest in History are read about Great Choals as a kid...time has come to finish Dalals like Irfan Habib and Romila from our books.
History must be rewritten and civilization started at south India only
The ancient world wasn't isolated. Everyone knew about everyone else.
Civilization started at many places independently.
Are u OK?
Good info
Intresting
Good.
Proud South Indian ❤
Sir you make a good video but our central government didn't support our tamilnadu archeological surveys and excavation
simple news channel i like this
Interesting
Wow anchor(journalist) is probably native. She knows exact pronunciation 👏
Upsc favourite topic
In Kannada
Maligey - roof , big house
Madu -maddai - mardu - maradu - small hill
Hmmm....but its medu not madu.....Palace Mount is the literal translation for Maligai Medu
It’s from Tamil word
In Tamil
Karu + Naadu (Black sand/Land) = Karnataka
@@schoolkid1809 yaa, same meaning in Kannada too. But for black soil we call ಎರೆ , yerey mannu ,
@@coolfix948 South indian Language are 85% Related languages ~ In fact Tamil is the Oldest of all four languages ~ Even 🕊️ oldest than Sanskrit too 🥲 We have a proofs
Hope CM Stalin allows the excavations all the way and date all layers unlike stopping after dating till 2.5 m depth like at Keezhadi despite finding artifacts upto a depth of 4.5 meters at the same place. Because dating deeper layers show clear proof of flourishing ancient civilizations. This will probably show a flourishing civilization that goes back to 5000 BCE / thereby puncturing your famous Dravidian theory.
going back to 5000 BCE will only stamp dravidian history.
@@logeshrajap correct - will stamp the Dravidian or South Indian history our continent has always known through her epics and literature and her own records preserved all over India. But it will falsify the theory of aryans pushing dravidians to south in 1000 to 1500 bce - per this theory habitation on South India has to be only after 1000 or 1500 bce.
Yes there's no Dravidian history...only Tamil history. Aryans vs Tamils.
Hopefully TN govt doesn't sell and swallow that funds !!
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🤣🤣 it's state money, union didn't even shared a penny get your facts straight boomer ultra max aunty
@@ortee95your mom and dad taught you very good sanskar, seems to have grown up like a pig , mentioning people with sizes etc ..
Who else thought it's a petrol pump? 🤣🤣😂
Proud To Be TAMILAN ❤ ❤ ❤
Is it "maaligaimedu" or மல்லிகைமேடு (maligai-medu)
Watch the full video! And you will learn the right pronunciation and meaning!!
மாளிகை மேடு
@@popstarrocker420 see the video description spelling in English for maaligaimedu which is given as maligai-medu.
Thank you, The Hindu.
Subbed right now.
Do continue to keep us informed.
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Tamilnadu gives lot of information of Hindus for Bharat
Bro there's no Hindu findings dug out of keezhadi excavation. Those temples were built after 6th century AD.
Would like to work as a voice over artist too
Lidar technology must be used for exact structure
Thanks the Hindu
For what???
For making people aware of the artefacts etc 🤔
@@kasturipillay6626 artefacts of?
@@vidyasagar5844 are you Rice-bag?
@@infinite5795 yeah, proud of it..
Mighty cholas.....
Dude calls himself Stalin, I am amazed nobody saw a huge Red Flag there...
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UPSC aspirants: write it down, write it down.
i think she is a Tamilzhar her pronunciation is perfect.....there is no "sha...sha .gha gha ".... sounds in each words as like non native👍🏻
Many more things could be discovered if Mohammed didn't born
Lol you will be okay with British taking all your things and if America gave you green card. Clown 🤡
Lol true man.
😂
#FreeTNfromDRAVIDIANISM
Dravidian ta irunthu Vadakans ta kuduthurunga
somehow those brick structures don't create impression of palace remains, at least when compared with the ancient south temple architecture and technology. especially when a "national" news agency spreading some news about dravidian culture, one may have to think again. probably they maybe structures of different timeline or other, real mysteries maybe under southern sea coasts. delhi rulers always reluctant to bring out the facts, because they fear this indian "union" may go back to original smaller nations. you may not need heavy research to propose, that a panjabi, a malayalee and an assamee are of different genetic origins. well, there are christians in africa, europe, asia who all belive in jesus, it doesn't make their genetic origins same! unless we believe humans are all children of one almighty.
Lol at your conspiracy theories. Everything is a lie told by the media.. Sureeee.... also even if East India vs West India vs South India have different genetic makeup that in NO WAY means that India can't be a SINGLE country. Fools like you would be happier to live in a fragmented World India which doesn't have enough Military power to defend against foreign power. That is how this subcontinent has always been ruled by others along with rampant caste system. Finally Now india is a growing superpower and top 5 economies of the world. In no part thanks to fools like you who still want to fragment our country.
Temples and Palaces were constructed at same time . why temples were existed till today and palaces were not ? any idea
Maybe cause , temples are constructed to last an eternity,whereas palaces aren't?
Temples made of stone. Palaces were either inside forts which survive today or were wooden.
Sir, the possible reason is that once a kingdom is conquered, their first thing is to destroy their administrative area/building(i.e: Palace) but hesitated to destroy Temples because...most of the conqurers were devoties to either lord vishnu or Shiva and most of temples in Thamizh Nadu are dedicated to Shiva. During, muslim's invation, their motto is to loot the wealth of temple. During British rule, they used temple as bait for controlling peoples like if us didn't cooperate with british people, temple will be destroyed. Their motto is to use our land and people work resources.
There was rivalry between different kings of that time namely the Cholas and Pandyas so when one conquered the areas of another kings they destroyed everything other than temples since both were hindus.
Any Ariyalurians...
All these objects have gone to different countries or still here ??? They will be curious because all they can think of digging all valuable selling to other countries and making money buying more landsetc etc same cycle again and again.Why is this Governemnt interested when they say there is no God..
Cholas are Thevars. Great warriors.
@@krithik6535 his not bringing caste
Good, now relocate those Chola items to Central museum at New Delhi, don't give them in the hands of Rice-bag flat-earther Tamils, who think that Tamil is a dialect of Aramaic. Let Adam and Eve speak Tamil.
i have trouble with Tamil Phonetics, is it Chora or Chola. Why do some books write Tamizh Nadu. Any tamils that can explain thanks in advance
It’s Chozla ..
It's chozha and for your second question we have 3 letters for the sound "il" in tamil ,all these letters almost sounds same but with very little sound variations ,The letter we use to write tamil is zh,the sound zh is made by curving the tongue invard it is the correct phonetic term for the word தமிழ் (tamizh). although many of us use incorrectly as tamil.
Chola pronounced as sozha...means zha sound.....tamil is thamizh in correct pronounciation....according to a mythology the tamil thai(tamil mother)comes from shiva's tongue....when proper thamizh pronounciation is made....our tongue flattens for tha and folds for zha representing shiva lingam....
Mr.Singh, it is Chozla not Chora . We can write Chola but the alphabet Z makes the difference . The alphabet 'ழ ' exist only in Tamil and Malayalam language . आप हिन्दी में चोला बोलिये , इतना काफिये।
In english/hindi, there is no equivalent for "zh" in Tamizh. So its hard to explain here in writing. It can only be understood hearing the pronunciation.
i dont know this exact date or era but three main figures landed on earth
remember three main figures, as you will find these three main figures in every major religion
they came from planetX called nibiru
they created the first station to mine gold in the region of kailash
as mining gold is a very complex and hard work so they created us as labours to dig out the gold for them
and that is how gold is connected to humans it is the most precious matter produced by our mother earth
its a very long story u can learn it through the writings of the first civilization ever created by those three figures
as per the law of nature on this planet
they rebelled against each other because one side was treating us like rats
and other side wanted us to be free as we should be
hence dNA manipulation begin by the third figure no one knows the name but sumerians called him fishman
in hindus we call him matsya this is the time where creation actually begins becuase through that DNA manipulation
the secret of the gods run in our blood
look around yourself on those species who are less smarter than you
you can bring them salvation and joy
you are a caretaker of this planet
you are a god
Looks like a gas pump nozzle...
And center will suppress it as usual
What prove is there to say that this is a Palace? Other than the name..
It could have been an assembly or parliament...
What do you mean by Chola and Chinese trade route, when they are called Chinese than nor are the Tamil called Cholas now..
Gangaikonda Cholapuram was an Imperial Capital City built by the Indian Tamil Emperor Rajendra Chola after the capital was shifted from Thanjavur. At the centre of the city, many historic texts have described a huge palace being there. The Palace may have included things like an assembly halls, gardens, administrative grounds and a mint
It was wrong for them to say Chola-Chinese trade. What they should have said was Indian-Chinese trade or Chola-Song trade because the Song Empire was what ruled most of China at the time
@@dwarasamudra8889 No...There was no official India before independence. There were only kingdoms. Everyone knew where the "Indian region" was for thousands of years because of the road trade in the north and the sea trade in the south.
And here is another tip- The name India itself was mistakenly given by the Persians and the Greeks because they could not pronounce shindu.
So, what they said was correct!
@@crombajaa there was no official china either
@@dv9239 No some point out to records that shows the name "Cina" itself was common during 2nd century BC and some point out to 16th century.. as there were rulers who united entire China and name it accordingly. So, the name is officially old!
All the palaces are grazed to 0 by English
I'm very late to subscribe you... The Hindu
Tamilan unmai varalaru Medai erum kaalam idhu!!
Hindu kingdom of south
Chola , Chera , Pandya was not Hindu Kingdom
@@mscreationworks5787 but cholas made Shiv temple right?
@@shraddhamishra301 Shiva is not a vedic God
@@shraddhamishra301 Chola dynasty was a South Indian Tamil dynasty
@@mscreationworks5787 Maybe. But Rudra is, whom we consider as Shiva. And Vaishnavites of northern India, especially followers of Lord Rama, consider Shiva to be one of the most fundamental powers of universe. Hindus are not necessarily people of Vedas, they might be people of Puranas too. And these ideas are coming from Puranas.
He organizerd to loot the gold and oriniments and sell in black market
Sometimes it’s better to just speak your native language.
Hidden is Brahmin's kamasutra addiction
The speaker should learn how to pronounce Word “Chola”. It’s not “Chora”. Chora means thief. Chola is name of Lineage.
Church building narrative.
What's the big deal? Its just a palace - the world is full of such palaces, even much older. Tamils have almost a fetish with history, with an imagined greatness of themselves - while nothing found upto now is actually very old. Even a palace which is just 1000 years old is found in ruins!! Why is that? Who destroyed it and ruined it? That's more interesting than this constant hype and hoaxes by the Hindu about the imagined great Tamil history. Just a bit to the north in Andhra Pradesh there are so many very old structures, much older than anything that is found in Tamilnadu, but one never hears any noise or propaganda about the greatness of Telugus from newspapers there.
Telugus didn't had an identity until vijayanagara period. Chalukyas and Satavahanas didn't consider themselves as Telugu. Tamils had clear identity which is found even in Mahabharata. Chera, Chola and Pandyas are mentioned there. Udayan perumcheralathan is mentioned as the king who provided food for the warriors. He's a chera king.
Most of the tamil history is systematically ruined during vijayanagara period and the subsequent nayaka rulers who imposed telugu and destroyed tamil identities and palaces of tamil rulers.
Know anything about ancient burial urns? Athichanallur has loads of it which needs to be carbon dated but union government is afraid to do that because it can alter the history timeline which would say Tamils are the first people of this country
@@ranjith9152 Friend, what defines a particular identity and ethnicity changes over time. I am not aware of Tamils being mentioned in the Mahabharata - Chera, Chola and Pandyans all claim/have decent from diverse North Indian/Hindu mythological lineages. (BTW Udayan perumcheralathan is dated to 3rd century BC, long after the Mahabharata war). Whether they called themselves Tamils during the Mahabharata (dated variously from 3000 BC to 700 BC) is doubtful. The first attested mention of Tamils are either in the Satavahana era inscriptions of Andhra or Sinhalese Brahmi inscriptions of Srilanka as far as I remember. Its almost always foreigners and neighbours who name people and mention them as its a way to refer and identify and differentiate oneself from the neighbours or foreigners. Its obviously pointless for people living Tamilakam who would have been Tamils at that time, mentioning themselves by their own ethnic name. For example if Tamil kings built many temples and put up inscriptions that they built them, they will only mention their name, and not that they were Tamils, however if a Telugu person came and setup a small kovil, in an inscription it might mention that it was built by a Telugu who was called so and so. I hope you got my point. Also, no mention in literature like Mahabharata does not mean that the Tamils didn't exist.
@@punchipoint8457 rant of an anonymity who has nothing to claim to and no reasonable history to say.
Lol it is cholas but she is pronouncing choras
Release the Hindu Temples, our communities can do a better job than the DMK government...
You and your community can build temple and do wtever you want . No is stopping you . Ancient temple are property of kings thus it belongs to Tamil society not to your community. Gov of TN will handle it .
@@parthibans4969 who is your secular government to poke its nose in Hindu affairs?
Does it poke it,s nose in churches or mosques?
Go and learn your national constitution before you teach me what is right.
The only reason government can interfere is when there is mishandling or foul play in the temple.
Are you telling me that all hindu temples by hindus are being mishandled?
@@dharma7766 like i said kings property is peoples property not ur community property. u better learn constitution . this problem has already been taken into court and are governed . religious sites that are build earliest belong to those religous groups not the ancient once are build for more than religion only
those are under GOV .
@@parthibans4969 which people?
People who have no civilizational pride have no business in temples..
Just having a hindu name does not qualify...
There is a history and tradition to how it is meant to be.
The Temples will be freed whether you or anyone likes it or not..
@@dharma7766 keeping dreaming not gonna happen . Kings property will be always people's property. You can't loot king property using name of religion in this Era.
India was not a single country it was different countries british conquered and made it into a single country.
Countries? The heck?
@@kamallb4650 or kingdoms, today we call it countries. India as a single country is only 300 year old. Do you know how many modern day states were part of Hindustan. Go n learn the real history. Genius
@@nikhilpunalur oh I'm so sorry Stephen Hawking 2.0
Not the British.but Sadar Patel who United our Bharath varsh
@@blackdoesntmeanbad6058 no actually it was the British who structured india by conquering all the kingdoms. later patel annexed certain parts like hyderabad, northeast etc
No only mugals ruled india....
Attributing ...everything to certain period and dynasty...without carbon dating ....? Racism....?
Boycott DMK party ....Vote for BJP 🥰🥰🥰🥰
why
It will take atleast 10 years....here ppl's viewpoint about bjp is not good...only in few region ppl elect them....in other places they r troll material.
BJP led central government halted the excavation at many places and bluffed that there was nothing found
Thanks to the people's agitation the government brought back artifacts from the ASI and funded it themselves.
As long as we stand as Tamils separatists / History Distorters won't prevail.
Don't forget the injustice..
When we are talking about "Heaven " and you are talking about Human Stinky Excreation { BJP } What a disgusting taste youhave .
@@abby-kamakoti ❤️