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The Cloud Of The Princess Part I- Chapter 2

Pavazhanadu was being ruled by kunjidhapaadhanar. Surrounded by mountains on all four sides, it was the safest place a king could ever rule. The kingdom spread over hundreds of miles and was inhabited by lakhs of common people most of whom were involved in agriculture. There were also artisans, painters, sculptors, doctors, astronomers, poets and people in almost all spheres of life. Group of men ploughing the field as they talked of the next harvest, Group of ladies carrying woods as they sang a rhythmic tune together, gang of girls playing with mud making imaginary figures, couple of children running around the huts with long pine sticks in their hands, old men and women sitting in front of the houses and teaching their grandchildren ethics and morals were common sights. But nobody claimed to be aborigines of this land. It was only some hundred and fifty years before which a prince called Aadhirayan from northern tamilnadu along with soldier friends successfully climbed up the so called highest mountain of tamilnadu-asuragiri on his third attempt after having sworn to his father that he would not return back to the kingdom without knowing what was on the other side of it. It had taken him almost three months to climb to the apex of the mountain and when he finally managed to do that his heart started to leap. What he saw when he reached the top of the mountain was a breathtaking sight. He saw a huge empty field spread out till his eyes could reach which appeared as if a beautiful brown blanket was spread over mother earth. He also saw an equally high mountain as that of asuragiri on the horizon and he could see that the empty field stretched till that. Right on the center of the huge empty field ran a slender curved blue twinkling line of water that nature had gifted to that place. The serene river was exactly dividing the empty landscape into two equal parts. There were no trees to be seen anywhere but only thorny bushes all along the river on either side.


Chill air hit aadhirayan's face and his hair started to float up and down as he majestically stood on the top of asuragiri witnessing this breathtaking scenery. Suddenly the clouds started to turn black and drops of rain fell on his face . The sun went down the skies swiftly and it looked as if it raced to an unknown place to inform somebody that one of the most guarded secret of her's had been found out. It was romantic and the brown landscape that opened up in infinite directions in front of him appeared like a virgin who could not control blushing because it was the first time a man had seen her. More clouds gathered together at tremendous pace and in a few seconds a roaring thunder accompanied with a bright lightning broke the eardrums of aadhirayan. It was that moment when he decided that he would rule from this god's own land and will name it pavazhanadu after his queen pavazhamozhiyaal .

The immediate problem he faced was to being people into pavazhanaadu. He thought hard and after discussing with a few handpicked men of astute political and architectural knowledge, laid a huge plan. A secret tunnel was made through the basement of mount asuragiri into pavazhanaadu with the help of ten thousand soldiers who worked tirelessly for a period of seven years. The whole process was kept in utmost secrecy and it was made sure that it did not spread through word of mouth into other kingdoms. After its successful completion, people were slowly asked to move to pavazhanaadu through the tunnel. Aadhirayan was not inclined towards war and so he wanted to rule this land that god had gifted him in isolation and wanted to develop it as one of the most advanced kingdom that mankind has ever seen - be it in architecture, science, engineering , medicine or astronomy. He did not want his enemies to know about this remarkable discovery he had made and so closed the secret tunnel that he had built after three years before which bulk of the population had already moved from his kingdom into pavazhanaadu. The public knew that there was no way now to go back to the other side of asuragiri but they did not have a need to. They had all their families here and this dream land their king had found was more fertile and prpsperous than where they came from. So they never complained- rather they sang kavi's in praise of their king and inscribed his excellence on stones. Aadhirayan did have a part of the tunnel open for over thirty years up till a few years before his death but this was known only to a bunch of politically closely knit people. Though pavazhanaadu had become self sufficient in almost everything, it lacked what aadhiryan dreamt of. 'A powerful knowledge base'. And Aadhirayan tactfully used this part of the tunnel to kidnap eminent scholars from other side of asuragiri into his land. The kidnapped men were handcuffed and their eyes tied tight and so they never realized where they were brought to. Aadhirayan did not believe that these scholars would really teach students of his kingdom anything useful. He knew they would oppose and would be stubborn not to teach and may even get to know about the tunnel that was closed years ago and start to doubt the fact that whole of pavazhanaadu believed. So he threw all these scholars into deadly dark prisons underground his palace and forced them to write down whatever they had learnt and when they were done, mercilessly killed them. Once he had gained expert knowledge on several branches of science that he hoped for, he called in the best guru's in his kingdom and asked them to read and understand what the kidnapped scholars had left behind and teach those to the students of his land. Some of the bunch of ministers who knew all these happenings would even ask aadhirayan why he was doing all this when he wanted to rule alone and who was he trying to prove greater than when he had no competition at all. All of aadhirayan's reply would be a gentle smile and the words 'ellam iraivan viruppam' which translates as 'Every happening is god almighty's desire'

Hundred and fifty years later , the seventh generation after aadhirayan, thiru kunjidhapaadhanaar took over as the king of pavazhanaadu and along with his climb to the throne came mysterious problems from various unexpected quarters.

4 comments:

  1. yet again a nice chapter :) the names are soo nice and different ..ennae i am not able to remeber the names well :-P...but they are beautiful and the description of that land was wonderful...but was wonderin y the scholars were made to impart knowledge in this manner? was it any use ? how can one impart "all" knowledge all at once as wisdom grows with time and experience and situational..but i am expecting an answer in forthcomin chapters :)

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  3. jus had time today to go thru the 2nd chapter and only one comment.
    virgin who could not control blushing - could have been
    pink blush on a soft vigin face
    everything else is perfect.

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  4. @Anonymous

    Thanks for the comment...

    btb it would be great to know who this anonymous visitor is.. :)

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