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Ponniyin Selvan route map - Part 3!
Come, let us travel along Vandhiyathevan and others to retrace their path in current day Tamilnadu (Book-3)
This book picks up immediately from where PonniyinSelvan1 - movie ended.
Let's go!
#PonniyinSelvan #PonniyinSelvanTrip
Poonguzhali saves Ponniyin Selvan who's jumped into the ocean and brings him back to Kodiyakkarai along with Vandhiyathevan.
(Book and movie differ with who's saving PS)
She drops him west off Kodiyakarai, in a forest marsh area.
Map: goo.gl
Poonguzhali goes to Kuzhagar temple alone & finds Ravidasan and Nandini making new plans.
She distracts Ravidasan to a swamp gas area, that she calls Kolli Vaai Pisaasu.
This is the burning of methane gas coming out of swamps & marshes. Ravidasan is trapped in a marshy pit.
Vanthiyathevan cleverly makes Nandini & Ravidasan that PS is dead.
Poonguzhali and Sendhan Amudhan together drive the boat via a canal from Kodiyakarai to Nagapattinam.
Nobody else believes that they have a fever-ridden, but very much alive, PonniyinSelvan with them in the boat!
They drop PS at Nagapattinam Choodamani Vihara, where Buddhist monks secretly help Ponniyin Selvan recover.
Chudamani Vihara was a Buddhist monastery onstructed by the Srivijayan (current day Indonesia) king Sri Vijaya Maravijayattungavarman.
Map: goo.gl
Vanthiyathevan goes to Pazhaiyaarai to provide the updates to Kundhavai.
In between, he stays at a place near Harichandra river, at a blacksmith's house - for hitting iron shoes for his horse.
This is where he sees a sword with fish symbol being polished!
This is ofcourse the sword of Nandini!
This blacksmith's place is near Maanikkavannar temple, which is a Paadal Petra Sthala.
Name of the place is திருவாளப்புத்தூர் Thiru- Vaala- Puthur (New-Sword!)
Map: goo.gl
He pretends to be an astrolger to get into Pazhaiyaarai palace with Madhurantaka.
They meet Thirunaaraiyur Nambiyandar Nambi, a Shaiva scholar who receives the hero's welcome in the city and palace.
Once again a case of PS characters meeting real historical people! Kalki ❣️
Thirunaaraiyur Nambi goes on to fulfil Kandaraditya and Sembiyan Maadhevi's dream - to compile the lost hymns of Sampantar, Appar and Sundarar!
His birthplace is mentioned in the novel:
அருள்மிகு சவுந்தர்யேஸ்வரர் கோயில் திருநாரையூர்
goo.gl
Sembiyan Madhevi tries to change the mind of Madhuranataka by narrating her hometown's myth: Mazhapaadi.
Once when Sundarar was walking amidst Mazhapadi, he missed a temple which was covered by dense Konnai trees.
He heard a mystic voice: "Sundaram, Ennai Marandhaayo?"
Sundarar removed the trees to discover a Shivalinga, and started singing - "Ponnaar Meniyane" - the favorite verse that Sendhan Amudhan keeps repeating in the novel.
‘மன்னே! மாமணியே!
மழபாடியுள் மாணிக்கமே!
அன்னே உன்னையல்லால்
இனி யாரை நினைக்கேனே!’
Map:
goo.gl
Madhurantakan is unflustered by these attempts, and is adamant about becoming king.
He even tears off his Rudraksha maala (As shown in the film)
Meanwhile, Hero meets Kundhavai, and she instructs him to go to Kanchi to stop Karikalan from meeting Nandini.
Enroute, he is kidnapped by Ravidasan who brings him to Thirupurambiyam Pallipadai temple.
He sees the Pandya child-king, who provides the Pandya sword to Nandini - a choice that makes her the leader in eliminating their Enemy.No.1
Map: goo.gl
Kundhavai and Vaanathi go from Pazhaiyaarai to Aanaimangalam near Nagapattinam on an elephant.
This place is famous for providing copper plates that became crucial evidences in dating the Cholas.
Map: goo.gl
Ponniyin Selvan recovers and is taken to Kayarohanaswami Temple, Nagapattinam where he meets Kundhavai and Vaanathi, finally at Nandi Mandapam!
They discuss their family secrets and plan their next moves!
This concludes Book-3!
Map:
goo.gl
Book-3 is light on plot, but focuses more on character development.
It also sets it up neatly for the tumultuous Part 4 and the finale - Part 5!
Part 4 thread, coming up next week.
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Link to RT the first tweet in this Part-3 thread!
Part-4 of this thread.
This is where Karikala meets Nandini for the first time after the Madurai incident.

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