SV: SV: Sanskrit translations in Nazi hands
N. Ganesan
naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 11 16:36:51 UTC 1999
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Well this would be the first time then that I have heard that Tamils
had anything similar to a classification approaching the
Arya-Dravidian division. However, I wonder it the term "arya"
here is not referring to meter rather than language.
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Tamil meters are akaval, veNpA, viruttam, tAzicai, cintu, kalittuRai
and so on. The arya in Appar quotes (2 were provided) does
not refer to any meter/metrics (Tevaram is not a grammar, you see)
Tamil literature does not know of any Arya meter.
Aryan in Tamil denotes IA speakers.
Regards
N. Ganesan
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