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The
Tamil system was framed only with special reference to the nobles,
who were fit to be treated of as heroes and heroines of Tamil poems
and plays. But the Aryan system applied to all and sundry. |
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The
Tamil system was framed purely for literary purposes, while the Aryan
system was meant for economical purposes. |
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The
Tamil system of social division was strictly based upon the actual
employment of every individual, and change of occupation entailed
change of designation; whereas the Aryan social system based the caste-division
entirely on birth and parentage and stereotyped the caste-titles irrespective
of the employment or work of the individuals. |
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Education
was held common to all in pre-Aryan Tamil Nadu. Scholars and sages,
whether householders or ascetics, came of various professional communities,
though many families were hereditarily devoted to literary studies
and professions. |
The Aryan social system, on the contrary, restricted all higher education
and learned professions to the Brahmin community, and enabled its members
to enjoy free education with free board and lodge at the expense of the
state as a prerogative.
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The
first division of the Tamil system comprises two sub-divisions, viz
f. Pƒrppƒr, the scholars who are leading
domestic life, lit. ‘those who look into books’, and Aiyar, the Anda-ar
proper, the sages who have taken to ascetic life, lit. ‘the merciful’,
and originally referred exclusively to Tamilians; but subsequently
included persons of other nationalities also, if they were Tamilianized
and of similar state. The term Anda-ar, when it applied to heroes
of poems and plays, made no distinction between the two subdivisions. |
In diametrical opposition to this, the
first division of the Aryan system refers exclusively to Brahmins.
Curiously enough, the Brahmins of Tamil
Nadu ‘by and by’ appropriated the appellation Anda-ar exclusively to themselves
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