.
..
most highly
cultivated
high
degree of culture
tamil
alone stands apart
unbroken
literary traditions
most
primitive language
telgraphic
transmission
oldest
language
tolkappiyam
nedunalvaadail
melodious
language
exception
of tamil
most elaborate
philosophical
literature
reacted
on Aryan thought.
tamil trade
most intellectual
people
cradle
of human race
most important
original
inhabitants
neolithic
culture.
tamil architecture
tamil culture
STATUS OF
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REACTED ON ARYAN THOUGHT
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Dravidian religious conceptions reacted on Aryan
modes of thought.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS
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DOCTRINE OF TRANSMIGRATION
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Trace of the doctrine of transmigration is entirely
absent from the Vedas and easily Brahmanas. It seems probable that the
India~ Aryans borrowed the idea from the aborigines.
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PROF. MACDONALD
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LINEAL PROGENITOR
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This doctrine ofthe Aryan origin of the Indian
civilisation whicli finds no support in Indian literature, which does not
consider the Dasyas as uncivilised, is the result of the theories of "Indo-Ger
manic" scholars who held that everything valuable in the world origi nated
from the Aryans. Not only is Indian civilization pre-Vedic bul the essential
features of Hindu religion as we know is today were present in Mohenjodaro.
"There is enough in fragments we have recovered" says Sir John Marshall
about the religious articles found in the sites, "to demonstrate that this
religion of the Indus people was the lineal progenitor of Hinduism." In
fact Siva and Kali the worship of Lingam and other features of popular
Hinduism were well established in India long before the Aryans come.
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A SURVEY OF INDIAN HISTORY K M PANNIKKAR
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CONTRIBUTION TO HINDUISM
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To the final state of the Hinduism, the Tam us
have contributed much in Sanskrit as far as philosophy and ritual are concerned,
and in Tamil through the hymns of the Saivite and Vaishnavite saint~ Vedantic
philosophers like Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhwa were Southerners, from Tamil
or Kannada speaking countries.
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JEAN FILLIOZAT
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INNER ESSENCE OF INDIAN CULTURE
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"If Kali, Siva, and Vishnu are not Vedic deities
and certainly they are not, they can hardly be Aryan, there seems no other
possible ~lternative than to suppose they are Dravidian."The worship of
Kali, of Siva, of Vishnu, of Parvathi the consort, ~d of Subramania and
Ganesa, sons of Siva and of Krishna the last incarnation of Vishnu, these
things are not mere alien and unimpor tant accretions to an Indian culture
of Aryans and Vedic origin; they are of the inner most essence of Indian
culture.
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DR. GILBERT SLATER.
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AGAMAS IN TAMIL
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It is sometimes claimed that the Agarnas were
written in the Dravidian languages in prehistoric times and that they owe
their origin to revelation of Siva to Nandiemperuman in the form of Srikantha
Rudra in the Mahendra Parbata in Tinnevelly district ow ing to a great
flood much of the twenty-eight Agamas were lost. That is now available
in Sanskrit Translation.
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SCOMERUS
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SAIVA SYMBOLS
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I see real Saiva symbols i.e. the lingas even
in St Paul's Cathe dral, the most sacred place of worship in England.
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T.S.J.C. LONDON 1912
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SAIVISM
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In every ancient times the theoretical side of
Saivism had been purely philosophical, while its practical side, which
consisted in bringing into an intimate relation of love the human and the
Divine selves, tended to a worship of luminous bodies such as the Sun and
the Moon and also fire which constitutes the essence of a bright objects.
God was conceived to be a subtle spiritual light whichmanifestes itself
in the chief physical luminary the Sun, so that all rites, religious observances,
and original my tha in Saivism clung, around this resplendent body. For
us who have come to think of the appearances oft he sun and the moon as
so many natural occurrences that uniformly take place in the realm of lead
matter, they have lost their high purpose and significance. But to our
ancestors who lived in close relationship with Nature, they had been a
great wonder, and to their then more clear, vivid, quick and penetrating
intutive sense they revealed the gracious presence of a loving buing hearenly
father. That they perceived by means oftheir intuition, and what they loved
so ardently in the manifestations of light, had not been a mere figment
of their imagination, but a reality informed with infinite love and intelligence
and capable of readily responding to the prayers of a fervent heart. It
is this love, this intelligence in the Supreme Being which is otherwise
transcendental and incomprehensible to the finite understanding of the
human selves, than impels it to manifest itself to those who are pious
and devote
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MARAIMALAI ADIGAL
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