Book Review: An Update on AIT (Part 1)

[nanda chandran]

S Palaniappan writes :
>Moved by intense love for ziva
>JAn2acampantan2, the Tamil poet
>?  worships in song
>the Lord who dwells in ArUr ?.
>He who can recite these ten verses
>and listen to them
>will wipe his life clean of sorrow.       campantar 1.105.11>

>Note how the saint, campantar, identifies himself as a Tamil poet. >This is
>not a sporadic occurrence. He does it many times. In fact, verse 1922 >from
>periyapurANam (12th century) describes some of the reasons for >campantar's
>birth to be that the southern direction would exceed others in fame, >and
>Tamil usage will triumph over that of other language/s.

But the only hole in your argument is that Thiru jnAna Sampanthar was a
brAhmana! So are we now to conclude that Tamizh is the native language of
the brAhmana too, thus of Arya origin?

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