(This post is an excerpt from the Thread discussion we had in our Google Group Forums..) "பன்னீராயிரம் சிரசறுத்த கலகம்"!! Aaah!!.. This one reminds me of a similar incident in the history of 'Hindustan'. Nay much distance from the past of Thiruvarangam , there stands another temple which shares more or less the same fate of Thiruvarangam. But this one has faced much more turmoil than Thiruvarangam has to offer. It is the Somanatha Temple . Most of you might have known it by the Ghazni fame. This tale too is woven with mysterious facts/figures and fictions, that modern historians still find it difficult to cull out the real truth behind the telltale folklores. Some little facts: ('மதன் பார்வை'யில் இருந்து கொஞ்சம் தள்ளி நின்னு பார்ப்போம்) The Somanatha Temple is the most destructed temple of India, as far as history has known. It has been destructed/destroyed/desecrated a number of times and was reconstructed again and again. What we see now is
நாமார்க்கும் குடியல்லோம் நமனை அஞ்சோம்