The change of l into
or is very common in derivation.
e. g. kal (black) - ka (black) - k-kam
(blackness)- kagam (blackness). mal -
ml (blackness, black cloud) - maai
(black cloud, rai: kil (to dig) -k
(to dig, to tear)-ki (to dig, to
undermine). pol (to bore) - po (to bore)
- p (to bore, to cleave).
The name Chra
properly ra, is derviced from the word
ral, mountain-slope. The lord of a hilly
country is often called ral ndan
in classical poetry. The whole of the original Chra
territory, whose area still remains undiminished for the most part, though
broken up politically into several parts, lying north and south and traversed
by the Western Ghats almost throughout the whole length is a long slope
on either side of the mountain range.
Hence, the Chra King seems to
have been originally called aralan,
the lord of the sloping country, which name subsequently changed
by a single vowel change into raln,
and then by syncope became ran and
ultimately by a further mutation ral.
All these alterations are quite in accordance with the recognized laws
of phonetic or verbal change.
13.Circumstances
that obscure the greatness of Tamil
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Lemuria,
the original home of the Tamilians, is submerged entirely. |
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All the pre-Aryan Tamil literature has been destroyed, and the earliest
Tamil literature extant is either suppressed or misinterpreted. |
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The literary and colloquial dialects of Tamil have been adulterated
to a great extent, during the post-Academic period. |
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The true history of ancient Tamil Nadu written by the late P.T. Srinivasa
Iyengar, V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar and K.G. Sesha Iyengar, is not
yet recognized, popularised and propagated. |
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