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From: "Chandrasekaran, Periannan"
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Kandaiah Jeya:
"
May I ask you why you wrote about the community background of Rajeev
Srinivasan at your introduction about the author of the article? How
does his community background help us reading his article? .."

Manivannan only described Rajeev's ideological background and history
and not his community background, didn't he?

>
> I understand
> that the Indian government has denoted this year of the Hindu
> calendar as the Year of Sanskrit.

When will we have the Indians mature enough to recognize that Tamil
is the second pillar of Indian civlization to declare a year
the year of Tamil...?
May be never....now they are in an intellectually and emotionally
dishonest denial about the truth of Indus Valley Civlization's (IVC)
(proto-)Dravidian nature. This denial is being inculcated into unsuspecting
Indians of all ages it will be generations again before they come
to terms with reality.

> Maybe in some of those
> crumbling palm-leaf manuscripts rotting away unsung, unwept,
> and unhonored, there are other ancient treasures like the
> astronomical observations from 5,000 years ago.


Rajeev, do not forget that Tamil mansucripts are as likely to hold
the secrets...

Asko Parpola (see http://www.harappa.com/script/parpola0.html)
has been employing the classical Tamil names for asterisms
to decipher the IVC scripts.
Also many people do not know the beautiful Tamil names for
astersims since the currency belongs to Skt'zed names such
asvini (Tamil. kOtakam), bharani (Ta. thAzi, chORu),
mrigasIrsham (Tamil. mAzhku) rEvathi (Ta. nAvAy, paHRi).
etc.

Note that the Tamil names based on appearance of the asterisms
whereas Skt. names are most often retrofitted names with hardly
any traceability to the shape of the asterism which is contrary to
the universal nature of such bodies evidenced by greek names such
Orion, the great bear etc.
rEvathi e.g. is the name of the wife of balarAman whereas
the tamil names nAvAy and paHRi (H = Aydham sound) all are
some kind of boat or ship! The same with mrigasIrsham
which in Tamil is mAzhku...see the "distilled purity" of the Tamil word
with the ciRappu "zhakaram" looking as though the name was invented for
the asterism itself (itu kuRippeyar) indicating the antiquity of the word.
The typical way in which Skt. names were found is exemplified the name of
the river "thAmra parNi" which is actually Sanskritization of the beautiful
and very ancient Tamil name "thaN porun-ai"! There is no connection
with copper (the metal or the color or that metal)!
What I am trying to say is that with Tamil texts you have some serious
hope of tracing the facts about since they are true to the nature and to
the original human observations.

Chandra

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