Documentary of Nagapattinam District
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Nagapattinam District is a costal District in
Tamil Nadu. Which have lot of Tourist places to visit
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Sorry heare ,missing the SIKkal murugan Temple, Nagore Tharga, & Tranqubar (Tharangambady) please take care sir thank you sir
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Nagappatinam is a unique District with all its historical and cultural significance. It is one of the constituents of chola mandalam.
It was also known as ‘Cholakula Vallippatinam’. The Heritage of the town is found in the Burmese historical text of 3rd century B.C. According to scholars avurithidal the name of the part of Nagappattinam might have been derived from the word ‘Padarithitha’ is the name of the fruit tree ‘Bhirtree’ very common in this region.
In ancient times, ‘NagaNadu’, ‘Nagappattinam’ referred only to Sri Langa. Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka had close links with this town Nagappattinam. Animangalam Copperplate of Kulothungachola notes that ‘Kasiba Thera’ [Buddhist Monk] Renovated the Buddhist temple in 6th century AD with the the help of Buddhist monks of “Naganadu” This “nagar annam vihar” later came to be known as “Nagananavihar”.
Pallava King Rajasimha [690-728A D] permitted a chinese king to build Buddha vihar in Nagappattinam. Hence there existed a chinese built budha vihar inNagappattinam. According to Anaimangalam copper plate of Kulothunga I , sriVijayathunga Varman of sri Vijaya kingdam built Raja Raja Perumpalli in the name of Raja Raja Cholanand [Rajendra Chola Perumpalli] in the name of Rajendra Chola in1090 A D. T his budha vihar also called Sudamani vihar.Excavations were conducted by the Archaeological department at Vellipalayam in Nagappattinam and more than 300. Budha statues were unearthed and kept at the Museum in Chennai. This dilapidated Budist tower was razed down 200years ago.
Nagore was called so because it was inhabited by the Nagars. TheNagappatinam Kayaroganam Shiva temple existed even in the 6th century ApparSambandar and Sundarar were associated with this temple ;Kayaroganam Shivatemple is based on the ‘Laguleesa Pusuptha Cult’ .Soundaraja Perumal ViashnavaTemple is one of the notable features of Nagappattinam. This favorite town of Chola Kings was also celebrated latter;by Vijaya Nagara Kings. Portuguese had a commercial contact with this town during the Tanjore Nayakkas rule [Sevvppa Nayakkar] and [Acchuthappa Nayakkar] Portguese commercial centure was eastablished in 1554; Since then christianity began to take root under the commercial contact, 10 -villages are taken control of by Portugese traders With the advent of Portugese Velankanni Church came into existence.
In 1658, the Dutch tried to evict the Portugese town Nagappattinam to establish the commercial centre there under the agreement reached between King Vijaya Nayakkarof Thanjavoorand the Dutch on 05-01-1662. The following ten villages namely Nagappattinam Port;Puthur;Muttam, Poruvalancheri, Anthonippettai, Karureppankadu, AzhingiMangalam, Sangamangalam, Thiruthinamangalam, Manjakollai, Nariyankudi were transferred from the Portugese to the Dutch.
Ten Christian churches and a hosptial were built by the Dutch. They also released coins with the name Nagappattinam; engraved in Tamil letters. Accordingto the agreement between the first Maratta King ‘Egoji’ of Tanjore and the Dutch. Naagappattinam and surrounding villages were handed over to the Dutch.on 30.12.1676. Latter this town fell into the hands of the British in 1781after the prolonged struggles 277 villages with Nagur as the Headquarters were handed over to the East India companyin1779 Gold coins bearing the names ‘Nagappattinam Varagan’ and ‘Nagappattinam chornam’ were in circulation during Tanjore Maratha Kings period. Thus the Nagappattinam has the history of over 2000 years for its credit. Today Nagappattinam remains the Head quarters of Nagappattinam District.
Thank you for deepen history my grandparents and ancestors home village ❤
Wonderful. You have provided lots of information on this great town, unfortunately even the people of Nagai itself not aware of this facts. Can you provide reference information for my further information collection.
a beautiful place in nagapatnam.
you did a great job you viewed nagai as best as possible but we aren’t maintaing it properly
Am from salem. Nagai dt so very nice place….?
Very nice but why u missed many other places like nagore, sikkal singaravelar temple, harbour and all?
I actually watched this video because I’m going on a road trip to Chennai it was helpful
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Add nagore dargha which is famous worldwide. We are all expecting in next publish
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I m in pondicherry but nagapatinam my dead grand ma native place in 1920
Very nice documentary about Nagapattinam district.
I’m nagapattinam
My city??
Same.
Super
Tell many about our nagai
எங்க ஊருங்க… நல்ல bcgrnd music and xplanation
Enga area….iam Velankanni
Where is Nagore dargah
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