Q: Manu on Pouring Lead in Sudra Ears

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <Palaniappa at AOL.COM> wrote:

>Didn't Virazaivism have many vizvakarma-brAhmaNa followers who were
>anti-brahminical unlike the Tamil zaivism where brahmins and vellALas were
>amicable?

The brAhmaNas associated with vIrazaivism are called ArAdhyas, mostly found
in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

The vizvakarmas don't seem particularly vIrazaiva in character. You might
want to see http://www2.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/vedas-sridhar.html, for some
vizvakarma lore.

Vidyasankar
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