TIRUVANANTHAPURAM

MARTHANDA VARMA'S PATRONAGE

He was, as name suggests a dauntless warrior of peerless military prowess. Soon after coronation, he launched a large scale military campaign for territorial expansion, particularly against the impudent roaring local petty lions and annexed with grace and ease every territory, and left them as toothless wild cats. Expansion, as desired was materialized and his kingdom swelled up to cochin. Soon after the digvijaya yatra, he embarked upon the Dharma Prachara yatra on a spectangular level like that of immortal Asoka Mourya, and in an exemplary manner at it. He construed and inferred, rightly too, that power, wealth, knowledge come to an individual as a reward, when he accepts to be a trustee of God's wealth and moreover the gifts of God find justification, leading to the culmination of reaping a bumper harvest of bliss. 

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