uraga and AlavAy
Swaminathan Madhuresan
smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Fri Apr 2 21:27:34 UTC 1999
> On the contrary, David Shulman and following him William Harman have simply
> missed the mark in understanding the true history of the name AlavAy.
Another case of wrong translation from Tamil into Sanskrit:
The word 'Aalam' meaning the banyan tree was misunderstood as hAla/hAlahAla
(poison), and the story was spun for the Big Snake encircling
Maturai (hAlAsya myth).
SM
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