Dravidian Cryptography

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 08:08 PM 9/7/97 BST, S.Krishna wrote:
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>>From: DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA <narayana at hd1.vsnl.net.in>
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>>At 06:04 AM 9/6/97 BST, D.kumar wrote:
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>>>The other Kannada word kanda, which is an inverted and substituted 
>form ofdinku, denotes: young child (DED. #1411), and Skanda or Muruga is 
>knwon asan young boy, young man, a boy god; and he is associated with 
>infants (AskoParpola; Deciphering the Indud Script;1994;p.225; 
>henceforth I shall refer to this work as: A.Parpola).
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>Devarakonda Venkata Narayana Sarma says: 
>>On the one hand it is claimed that `skanda' is the inverted/substituted 
>form of`dinkisu' (= leap). On the other hand it is claimed that`kanda' 
>which is the vikriti of `skanda' is the inverted/substituted form of 
>`dinku' (= child).How can a vikriti of one word which is a 
>inverted/substituted form of`dinkisu' be an inverted/ substituted form 
>of another word 'dinku'. One word
>>should have only one origin.
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>I can't hunt up the exact reference here, but I do remember reading 
>somewhere that "skanda" is actually from tamil "kaNDa" i.e. the argument 
>was that skanda is the sansktirized form of "kaNDa" as opposed to 
>"kaNDa" being a vikrti/tadbhava form of "skanda". I think that this 
>theory is plausible because Murugan was originally a Dravidian diety 
>i.e. ancient Tamil poetry is full of references to him but AFAIK the 
>Vedas certainly donot talk about him and he appears in the rest of India 
>only much later( by the time of Kalidasa, he certainly became very 
>popular, but are there any copious references to him before that? I 
>dobut if we'd find copious references and even then, I don't think there 
>are as many as Tamil literature).
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>Regards,
>Krishna
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If `skanda' is a  sanskritised form of `kanda' a dravidian word, how can it
be the inverted/substituted form of `dinkisu'.

sarma.