Hinduism: once was: RAJARAM EPISODE

Vidyasankar Sundaresan vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 5 17:12:22 UTC 2000


>Sangam Tamil texts take Arya to mean Northeners only.
>But in later times, in 9th century Kamban and so on, Arya is
>taken to mean noble.

Agreed, but this just reinforces the point that such words carry
no meaning that is fixed for all time. And between the 9th century
and the 19th, there is an entire millennium to take into account.

Vidyasankar
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