Hinduism

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

>Like Cambodian and Southeast Asian kings were named Jayavarman,
>Indravarman, Adityavarman, Purnavarman (with typical
>tamil name endings with an -n)> But they are not
>South Indians ethnically.

-varman with the -n ending is not indebted to Tamil. The
Cambodian kings simply took Kshatriya-sounding names.
"Venkataraman" shows Tamil influence, "Adityavarman" does
not.

Vidyasankar
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