SamnyAsin names

[Lakshmi Srinivas]

--- Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <Palaniappa at AOL.COM>
wrote:

> In this connection, the following tEvAram verse by
> campantar may be of
> interest.
>
> cantucEn2an2um intucEn2an2um tarumacEn2an2um karumai
> cEr
> kantucEn2an2um kan2akacEn2an2um mutal atu Akiya
> peyar koLA
> manti pOl tirintu AriyattoTu centamizp payan2
> aRikilA
> antakarkku eLiyEn2 alEn2 tiru AlavAy aran2 niRkavE.
> (3.39.4)
>

> Indira Petersen (Poems to S'iva, p.278) translates
> this as:
>
> With aran2 of AlavAy by my side.
> I will easily defeat
> those blind fools with names like
> candusena, indusena, dharmasena,
> dark kandusena, and kanakasena,
> who roam about like apes, and know
> neither good Tamil nor the Sanskrit language.

This is of course rather interesting. Campantar seems
to show up as a pious bigot. Is he perhaps making a
snide attack on Dharmasena (Appar) for having been a
Jaina? It is probably not easy for him to forget this
fact considering his vitriolic hatred for the Jainas.

After all he seems to be calling them all kinds of
names:

"scoundrels" (3.297.1),
"filthy" (3.297.2),
"blind fools", "apes" (your quote),
"rogues" (3.297.11, 3.305.1),
"evil" (3.305.4),
"destructive" (3.305.10),
"wicked" (3.3.05.11),
"indecent" (3.366.1),
"base" (3.366.3),
"emaciated" (3.366.11)

(Transl. and verse numbering from Peterson's Poems to
Siva)

Thanks and Warm Regards,

LS



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