The Vedic Aryans, taking advantage of the primitive credulity, religious fanaticism and indiscriminate munificence of the Tamil kings, made them believe that they (the Vedic Aryans), were earthly gods (Bh‡suras) and their ancestral language was a divine language (D„va Bhƒsha). In this matter, their white colour and the high-sounding phonology of their language stood them in good stead.

     After subjugating the Tamilians in this manner, the Vedic Aryans introduced Sanskrit as the medium of public and temple workship in place of Tamil, and this marked the beginning of the deterioration of Tamil which came to be treated with contempt even by the Tamilians.

     It has become a universal error to overrate Sanskrit and give it undue importance, and underrate Tamil and neglect it altogether, as the Tamilians have not yet made an organized effort to put forth the case of Tamil before the western literati, as the Sanskritists have done hitherto.

     Almost all Westeners are still under the illusion, that Sanskrit is a language still living.

     The Vedic Aryans, after their language ceased to be a spoken language, wanted to have a language and literature of their own, to maintain their social supremacy. There were only five regional languages spoken in India during the Vedic Age, Pisƒci, Souras„ni, and Mƒgadi in the North. Tamil in the South, and Maharashtri in the middle. The post-Vedic Aryan poets and grammarians, realising the deficiency of the Aryan vocabulary, slowly evolved a semi-artificial literary dialect called Sanskrit, ‘the perfectly constructed’, out of the dead Vedic Aryan and the then living Indian languages called PrƒkŠits, ‘the previsously constructed’. Sanskrit is not identical with Vedic Aryan, which differs from the former as much as Anglo-Saxon from Modern English, but with this difference, that while English is a living language Sanskrit is only a literary dialect. So, it is a prochronism to call the Vedic language ‘Vedic Sanskrit’.