Telugu history

[Lakshmi Srinivas]

--- Raveen Satkurunathan <tawady at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> In my opinion even the CT names
> reflect a difference between the
> urbane, aristocratic and culturally Indic urban
> elites and the common people
> except the emphasis of the then elites was on being
> �refined Tamil� rather
> than �Sanskrit� most probably due to Buddhist and
> Jaina influences. Refined
> Tamil enabled them to differentiate them from the
> common people with "unrefined"
> Tamil names such as listed above.
>


Are there any reliably known names of the common
people from the CT texts? If you omit the names of the
kings, poets, famous chieftains etc , that is.

Regards,

LS

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