vengayin maindan is one of the best historical novel by akilan.... this novel gets the sakhitya academy award ... the story deals with how Rajendra chola built the city gangai konda cholapuram.... by getting water from ganga river.... like ponniyin selvan here also the main hero is not Rajendra chola but Elango a soldier,prince of veliyir who first recovered the pandayan mudi which is hidden in the dense forest of srilanka, with the help of one girl who is daughter of srilankan king maghindan.Elango fell in love with the girl. At the same time in tanjore , Rajendra's daughter also fell in love with Elango. But Elango doesn't know about this.Elango came home with a great victory.Then starts some problem the pandyas,the chaulakyas,the srilankans are all rebel against the chola kingdom.Rajendra plans for every thing and send some group of soldiers to get water from the river ganga.The patrol get victories over the countries which are on the way to the ganges.In the meanwhile, the king ordered to build the Gangai konda cholapuram.When the soldiers return from ganga with water, the enemies joined hands to destroy the new city,they planned to let the city drowned under the water of the nearby lake.. how Rajendra finds this and how Elango tackles this attack is the climax.
This novel is good.Akilan writes in more real than imaginary whereas kalki writes novel in a way that kindle the imagination of the readers. Many characters from ponniyin selvan is included in this novel like vallavarayan vandiyadevan, kundavai, vanamadevi etc...
This is not availble in net or any online reading . so try to buy or read in general library . The price of the book is around Rs.300 i think..
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Vengayin manindha is the worst novel i have ever read, How are you saying it is very good novel, Have you ever read any historical novels?
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