use of "draavi.da"?

[Madhav Deshpande]

I am familiar with the term Panca Dravida brahmanas, but not with the use
of Dravida covering all (or five, as Monier Williams says) languages which
we call Dravidian today.  That is what I would like to know.  Thanks.
                                Madhav Deshpande

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, N. Ganesan wrote:

> Dear Prof. Deshpande,
>
> Greetings. I have read somewhere that a purana (bhavishya?
> brahmavaivarta?) talks about *pancha drAviDa brahmanas* belonging
> to 1) tamil 2) andhra 3) kannada 4) maharashtra and 5) gujarat
> regions. Is this correct?
>
> Of course, drAviDa is a sanskritzed form for the term, Tamil.
>    K. Zvelebil, Tamil literature, E. J. Brill, 1975 p. 53
>    "It is obvious that the Sanskrit drAviDa, Pali damila, damiLo
>    and Prakrit dAviDa are all etymologically connected with
>   "tamizh" [48]
>   [48] The *r* in tamizh > drAviDa is a hypercorrect insertion,
>    cf. an analogical case of DED 1033 Ta. Ma. kamuku, Tu. kaGgu,
>    "areca palm"; Skt. kramu."
>    p.140
>    "In Saundaryalaharii 76 ascribed to zaGkara, Campantar
>    is called draviDazizu. For this tradition of "the boy-saint",
>    cf. also his other epithets, ALuTaiya piLLaiyAr ..."
>
> --------------------------------------
>
>    K. Zvelebil, Companion studies to the history of
>    Tamil literature, E. J. Brill, 1992 p. 18
>    "the word Dravidian, coined by R. Caldwell, in 1856 on the
>    base of the Sanskrit term draaviDa- found in a 7th century AD
>    Sanskrit author [kumArila bhaTTa], is in fact most probably
>    connected with the indigenous term for the Tamizh language, ie.,
>    tamizh, whereby the development might have been
>    *tamiz > *damiL > damiLa-/damila- and further, with the
>    intrusive 'hyper-correct' (or perhaps analogical) -r-
>    into draaviDa- 'Dravidian'.
>
>    cf. the forms damiLa-, damila- occuring in Prakrit, and the
>    alternative Sanskrit for dramila-. The -m/-v alternation is a
>    common phenomenon in Dravidian."
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>
> Regards,
> N. Ganesan
>
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