Saturday 26 December 2015

Tharisa pally Copper Plate is purely a Vellala cheppedu

Dr. M.G.S Narayanan states that Sreemolavsam PALLY which received free land   from king Vikramadithya  Varaguna as per Parthivapuram Copper Plate deed of C.E 829,Thazhekkaavu PALLY, Kinaloor PALLY, Alathoor PALLY, Thirumannoor PALLY which received lands from Kings during 9,10 & 11 centuries were all JAIN Pallys or Jain TEMPLES.
Then why   MGS   accepted without doubt like others, that the PALLY in Kurakeni Kollam (THARISA PALY) is a CHRISTIAN CHURCH?
All the PALLYs in Venadu during those period   were JAIN TEMPLES-Jain PALLYs. There was no CHURCH at all in Venad .
The unbelievable, incomplete   History (a mystery)

MGS Narayanan states the history of Tharisapply Copper Plates in his famous Perumals of Kerala, Cosmo Books Trichur 2013 p78
For the history of these plates, see TA.S 11, 1, pp60-62. The Syrian Christian bishop of Angamaly deposited them with the Portuguese at the beginning
Of the   16th century .With the surrender of cochin by the Portuguese to the Dutch , and later by the Dutch to the English, they also changed the hands.They were traced 
By Col. Macaulay ,British resident in Travancore ,in 1806,and handed over to the Kottayam seminary of Syrian Christians. During the disputes between the  two sections
Only 4 out of 6 plates were traced by Gopinatha Rao in 1916 and published with new translation and note
But how the plates reached the hands of   Angamaly Bishop
It is statedthat there were 6 plates. The present description is that there are only 5 plates with writings only on 9 sides only. The facing sideof 1st plate shows no writing
.But the back sideof 5th plate contains writing. Then why there is no writing on facing side of 1st plate? What happened to the 6th plate?
Who will  answers?

Gopinatha Rao hides the publication of the text in 1844 by Gundert in Madras Journal of Literature and Science X111,!,p 118
Dr.S. N. Sadasivan in his Social History   of India narrates the story how the Kottayam Bishop prompted Col Macaulay to search the plates.
He informed that the plates were given by the King for their ”  St. Theresa Church in Kochi”.
But how the Angamaly Bishop got the Plates?
That is a fable.
Actually the Plates were with Dariya   Chettys of Kollam. They kept them in Thevalakara   Jain Pally. Later Thevalakara  jain  pally was converted to Siva Temple 
by Brahmins and the plate remained in the temple. During the looting by notorious Portuguese robber   Manuel de Faria e Sousa (CE 1590-1649)

Tharisa pally Copper Plate is purely a Vellala cheppedu and was neither Syrian ,Christian or Kottayam cheppedu.
All the three ruling kings of the Chera, the Chola and thePadya were Vellalas (see T.Pazhaini Social changes among Vellalas of Nachinad ,Pen Books 2003 p 27)
So Sthanu Revi Emperor(as per Christian Historians)  or King(as per MGS) who ruled during CE 849 was a Vellala ruler.

King (as per Christian Historians), Governor (as per MGS Narayan etc)  Ayyan Atikal was a Vellala petti ruler( See K.Kanakasabai Pillai Tamils eighteen hundred years ago
Asian Educational Services N.Delhi 1997 p 116 Soranadu Kunjan Pillai, Vellaras of Kerala in  Sahyadri SanukkalileSamskarika pazhama ,Anjali Publishers 1986 P
The land donated to Tharisapplly by Ayyan Atikal belonged to Vellalas (poomikku karalar Vellalar)
Four families of Vellalas were donated along with the land for farming ,rearing cattle ,keeping accounts and registers ,measuring lands and writing documents on palmyra leaves with styles and also for supplying 
and buying groceries and agricultural products ( according to Edgar  Thurston& K. Rengachary, Castes and Tribes of South India Vol 7 pp 361-389 Vellala swere landlords,tenents, shepherds ,clerks, accountants, shop keepers ,weavers   and also farmers ,Palmyra writers  ).
The legal document was prepared by Sundaran the Vellala document writer.
All the 17 witnesses( See Hyacinte Anquitel Perron Zend Avesta Paris 1771 pp 1776-177)in the group testimonial’s were Vellala merchants

So the Kurakeni Kollam Copper plate is actually a  VELLALA Cheppedu and nota  Christian, Sriyan or Kottayam Cheppedu 

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