SV: SV: SV: Kinship systems

[V.C.Vijayaraghavan]

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From: "Venkatraman Iyer" <venkatraman_iyer at HOTMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: SV: SV: SV: Kinship systems


> >As far as I can see these words are the Tamil translations of the English
> >words Saivism and Vaishnavism.
>
> Aren't they Sanskrit, rather than English?

I was looking at the two Tamil words  ( Saivam and vainavam) as religious
ideologies or movements. The focus was on the ideological aspect rather than
the names of the gods which are Sanskrit origin.