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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:03:33 -0000
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Subject: caNpai/campai
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--- In agathiyar@y..., "lsrinivas"
> PS: Just before posting, I remembered you have mentioned 'caNpai'.
> Is this perhaps from the North Indian town of Champa, known from
> Buddha Jataka tales? What's your opinion?
I'll also wait for Dr. JayBee's thoughts on this.
I think caNpai clearly refers to a type of grass
native to areas around cIkAzi. Onetime, I remember Sri. Chandra
pointing to cIku from MTL as some grass - (broomgrass?),
cIkAzi may have to do with this, and then sanskritized as
srI kAzi, and finally the proverb, "kAzi pAti, vIzi pAti"
refering to broad subdivision of Campantar poems.
vIzi, of course, is the bushy plant. (< from the verb, "vizu").
Look at the other names of cIkAzi, some will be clearly
refering to grasses.
caNpai called campai in Tamil. There is a famous village
called Jampai (< campai/caNpai) in S. Arcot where
the famous inscription of AtiyamAn NeTumAn AJci, the patron
of sangam Auvaiyar, has been discovered by Tiru. Selvaraj.
It belongs to second century AD, acc. to R. Nagasamy.
Would love to hear the responses from the learned list,
N. Ganesan
