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Dear Friends,

You would have read the article carrying the views
of former Director of Tamilnadu Archeology Dept., Dr.Nagasamy,
about Sanskrit. The following is a posting which was forwarded
by Manivannan in Dec.,1998.
This is in relevence to the above subject. We will
correlate the facts in both of the letters.

Regards

Jayabarathi

>From: "Mani M. Manivannan"
>To:
>Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:21:37 -0800
>Subject: [agathiyar] Fw: Tamil (indian) Roots Far-East Asian Languages
>
>From: sudheerbirodkar@...
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
>Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 7:23 AM
>Subject: Tamil (indian) Roots Far-East Asian Languages
>
>
>>The spread of Indian (Tamil) culture to Central Asia and South-east Asia left
>>a permanent mark in the languages of these countries. It is not well known
>>that for a time Sanskrit had become the lingua franca of many South-east
>>asian countries. Even the Indian Brahmi script was used in Malaysia and some
>>other parts of South-east Asia. This Brahmi was that which was used in
>>southern India around 800 to 1000 A.D.
>>
>>The Javanese Kawi script has been developed from the Pallava script from which
>>Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada scripts have also evolved. Even a cursory
>>glance would show the resemblance between the scripts used in Thailand, Laos,
>>Cambodia, etc., with the scripts of today's South Indian Languages.
>>
>>There are also a considerable number of Indian words in use in the languages
>>of Southeast Asia. For instance in the Malayasian (Malayan) language there
>>are the following words have been derived from Sanskrit; Bhoomiputra i.e.son
>>of the soil, Shurga i.e. heaven which in Sanskrit is Swarga; bangsi i.e.
>>flute, dhobi i.e. washerman, geni i.e. fire (agni in Sanskrit), etc.
>>
>>In Burma also there are many Indian words. For instance the river Irawaddy
>>(Iravati in Sanskrit)is derived from the original Sanskrit term Iravati, the
>>word Burma is itself a corruption of the Sanskrit term Brahmadesh (land of
>>Brahma), In Thailand we have place names like Aranyaprathet which sounds
>>quite In dian and is a corruption of the term Aranyapradesh meaning a
>>forested area in Sanskrit. The names of the cities viz. Singapore and Kuala
>>Lumpur end with the term 'pur' which means city in Sanskrit. Even first names
>>of individuals in these countries are derived form Sanskrit roots. Instances
>>of such names are Sukarno derived form Sanskrit Sukarna, Suharto derived form
>>the Sanskrit Suharta, Bhumibol from Sanskrit Bhumibala, Thanom Kittikachoron
>>from Krittikacharan, and so on.
>>
>>In fact in Malaysia the official title of honour given to persons of national
>>importance is 'Tan Sri' Tan means big, and Sri is derived from the Sanskrit
>>word Shri which roughly means 'Sir'. In Indonesia the official language is
>>called 'Bahasha Indonesia', the word Bahasha is derived from the Sanskrit
>>word Bhasha which means language.
>>
>>The Indonesian Airways is named Garuda which means an eagle both in the
>>Indonesian Language and in Sanskrit. There can be innumerable such instances.
>>This goes to establish beyond doubt the contribution of India to the languages
>>of these countries. This apart, through the medium of trade India has
>>contributed to the lexicon of Greek, Arabic, Persian and even the English
>>language.
>>
>>More info on this is given at the illustrated non-profit site:
>>
>>http://india.CoolAtlanta.com/GreatPages/sudheer/finearts.html
>>
>>Sudheer Birodkar
>
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