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Tuesday 21 November 2017

Eliminating Sanskrit words in Tamil, is it justified?

Question :I do not know why Ullaganar uses the word sutra in explaining Tolkaapiyam. This I am sure is a Sanskrit word and there is an equivalent word in Tamil - nuul.


Answer : I am questioning such assumptions as yours and all based on my studies of Sumerian as Archaic Tamil.

Beautiful Tamil words are mistakenly taken as Sanskrit where as a matter of fact Sanskrit itself is a kind of Tamil language that branched off during very ancient times. Thus there can be a large number of shared words just as is the case with Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and so forth. Once we get into the habit of thinking that Sanskrit is an ancient branch of ArchaicTamil language such problems will be over.

There are many words of the same morphology as sutra - tantra, mantra, yantra and so forth, The roots of su-tra i.e 'su' and 'tira> tra" are both Archaic Tamil. 'su' occurs in SumeroTamil as 'zu/su' meaning to understand, know and so forth.

For example: we have from En Hudu Anna's Sirbiyam the following lines:


123. Sumerian : an-gim mah-a-za he-zu-am
That you are lofty as Heaven-- be it known!
Tamil : vaanGin mahaa ji-a ii suu aam

124 Sumerian : ki-gim dagal-la-za he-zu-am
That you are broad as the earth -- be it known!
Tamil : kiiGim takalla ji-a ii suu aam

125.Sumerian : ki-bala-gul-gul-lu-za he-zu-am
That you devastate the rebellious land- be it know !
Tamil : kii-vala kolkollu jia ii suu aam

The 'zu/ju' here is also rendered as "su' in many places.
The tira>tra is to be derived from Su. til-a , meaning to exist, abide, to subsist etc and which is retained in Tamil in the term Tillai ManRu and which is rendred as Til-mun in Sumerian.
Thus 'suuttiram' ( > Sk sutra) is somehing that contains a deep understanding. Now the 'tra' can also be derived from Su. tar-ra i.e. to give that corresponds with Ta. tar, taru. There are many terms in CaGkam Tamil with 'taru' as an aux. verb such as 'tiri-taru' , valam-taru' etc. su-taru-am> suuttiram : that which give an understanding?

I also believe that the letter 'ka' in Tamil has the allophones 'ha' and 'ga'.

ULLAGANAR



( NOTE : Su : Sumerian, Sk : Sanskrit, Ta : Tamil. A lot of Tamil words are being lost to Sanskrit due to the wrong understanding that these words are Sanskrit based and not pure Tamil. We hope the universities in Tamilnadu ibn particular will do further research in the finding that Sanskrit is an offshoot of Tamil )

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