e.g.
Tamil |
Sanskrit |
iva(Red
one) |
iva
(Auspicious one) |
ngam
(f.nagar,
to creep) |
nga
(snake,f.naga
,amountai |
The
composition of Sanskrit has been elaborately dealt with
in my Evolution of Sanskrit.
Development
of Sanskrit Literature
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The
Vedic mantras, the first literary composition of the Indian
Aryans, remained unwritten for long (and hence called eudkkiavi,
the unwritten wordin Tamil), owing to lack of script and the desire
of the Aryans to keep them secret in order to give them an air
of sanctity, and prevent their comparatively inferior contents being
exposed, and also to facilitate addition and alteration whenever necessary.
The Brhmanas,
Aranyaks and Upanis·ads were then written
in succession in imitation of the original philosophy of the Tamulic
gymnosophists and hermits, whom the Aryans aped successfully.
There is an unbridgeable gulf between the simple Vedic pantheism
and the mature philosophy of the Upanisad. Some of the basic
terms of philosophy are still corruptions of Tamil words, for
instance, my
(T.myai) and sus)mun
(uimunai).
Even the Aryan
mystic mahvky,
lit. the great sentence, viz., tattvamasi is a
corruption of the three Tamil words tn
(adu), nn and irutti.
Logic
was then translated from Tamil and developed into
various systems. The Tamil system corresponded to the Sanskrit
Vaieika.
Next came into existence eighteen principal
and eighteen
auxiliary legendary works called Purs,
all of them having a
nucleus of Tamilian origin.
The Sanskrit alphabet was first formed in
Tamil Nadu, in the
Granta characters modified from the Tamil symbols and
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