Karnataka/KannaDa (was: Karave caste and Kurus)
N. Ganesan
naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 15 16:06:59 UTC 2001
>Anyhow, the Tamil example does look good and confirms that the old
>suggestion karu-naa.du is a serious possibility - even if it is Tamil and
>not Kannada.
Do we know when is the earliest representaion of KarnATa(ka)
in Sanskrit? In Kannada inscriptions?
>But I am still not entirely convinced that kam-naa.du is impossible,
>or that the parallel examples with kem- are not relevant.
You have written that KarnATaka looks like a
"Sanskritization" of an early Kannada word.
Are you thinking that that Kannada word is kam-nADu?
If so, is changes from kam-naa.du to kar-naa.tu rather
routine?
Regards,
N. Ganesan
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