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Tamilnadu is the cradle of Indian civilization. A BBC documentary called 'Mother India" suggestsed that Vedas might have been written in this part of India. The reason to believe this is in the fact that Vedic chants, Sanskrit Slokas and Sanskrit knowledge in general are in their perfection in Tamilnadu. That's why when a film called Krishna was taken the team visited Tamilnadu for Sanskrit script writing.
Tamilnadu is the only place where a literary genre called "manipravalam" existed combining the choicest Sanskrit words and Tamil words to present a narrative on religious philosophy. Sanskrit is referred as the northern language but for its presence in South Asia Tamil kings were largely responsible. The mighty Cholas ruled half of India, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia during 9-11 CE. They spread Sanskrit in those parts of Asia.
Sanskrit was the official language of Pallavas (6-8 CE) who invented a special script called Granda to write Sanskrit with Tamil script as a basis. The Vedas were not written for a long time and were hence referred as 'unwritten treatises' in Tamil. Pallava granda was used as 'lingua franca' in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia during their rule. The scripts of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and ancient Indonesia are closely related to Tamil script.
A healthy competition existed between the two classical Indian languages viz. Sanskrit and Tamil in expressing the divine matters. There is a belief that Vedas were originally chanted in Tamil to begin with and later replaced by Sanskrit. A revivalism occurred during 8th century CE when Vedas were brought back in Tamil and named, "Divya Prabandam' and the core of it was referred as 'Bagavat vishayam'. The tale of Krishna namely, 'Bagavatham' might have been written by Tamils. Vishnu Chittan alias Periyazvar, for the first time, introduced 'Pillai Tamil' a genre to describe bala Lila of Krishna. Scholars believe that he might have written Bagavatham.
An unbiased scrutiny in Indian religious philosophy will reveal that Bakthi was introduced to India and the rest of the world from ancient Tamilagam. 12...
Tamilnadu is the only place where a literary genre called "manipravalam" existed combining the choicest Sanskrit words and Tamil words to present a narrative on religious philosophy. Sanskrit is referred as the northern language but for its presence in South Asia Tamil kings were largely responsible. The mighty Cholas ruled half of India, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia during 9-11 CE. They spread Sanskrit in those parts of Asia.
Sanskrit was the official language of Pallavas (6-8 CE) who invented a special script called Granda to write Sanskrit with Tamil script as a basis. The Vedas were not written for a long time and were hence referred as 'unwritten treatises' in Tamil. Pallava granda was used as 'lingua franca' in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia during their rule. The scripts of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and ancient Indonesia are closely related to Tamil script.
A healthy competition existed between the two classical Indian languages viz. Sanskrit and Tamil in expressing the divine matters. There is a belief that Vedas were originally chanted in Tamil to begin with and later replaced by Sanskrit. A revivalism occurred during 8th century CE when Vedas were brought back in Tamil and named, "Divya Prabandam' and the core of it was referred as 'Bagavat vishayam'. The tale of Krishna namely, 'Bagavatham' might have been written by Tamils. Vishnu Chittan alias Periyazvar, for the first time, introduced 'Pillai Tamil' a genre to describe bala Lila of Krishna. Scholars believe that he might have written Bagavatham.
An unbiased scrutiny in Indian religious philosophy will reveal that Bakthi was introduced to India and the rest of the world from ancient Tamilagam. 12...
