Kalaapa

[N. Ganesan]

Dear Mr. Gansten,

For the Tamil word kalApam occuring in the sense of quarrel, war,
fight, pl. see the 12th century kantapurANam poem:

ittiRam poruta kAlaip piNimukattu Ental tan2n2aip
paittalai uTaiya tUvi paRittiTA vatan2am muRRum
kutti vem kuruti vITTik kuru maNik kalApam Irttu
meyttuyar purintAn2 nEmip puL uruk koNTa veyyOn2.

Here kalaapam occurs in two senses here as 1) war and 2) as the
more usual, 'decoration, bejeweled feathers'.

For the Neo-Hindu view of universal varnas, a possible ref.:
M. V. Parwardhan, The ideal democratic republic of Manu, 1968.

Kind regards,
N. Ganesan


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