I am writing this post with a bit of hesitation only. All these opinions involves controversies or arguments. Hence take the synopsis of this post as an information only. If there is any mistake please point it out to me, so that I can rectify it. I am ready to ask excuse for it also.
For the ancient Tamilians, there is no religion and caste differences. All of them worshipped the nature. Language is enriched, arts were shining, tricks were greatest. Men and women were treated equally. In ancient days, this was the real culture of Tamilians.
In the southern side of the vindhya mountains, aryas and kalapirars after they started eshtablishing themselves, they started to influence over our culture and spread their culture on ours. Our today’s culture is the influence of both those cultures only.
Also there is a controversial opinion that after realizing the importance and greatness of the Tamil, they eshtablished an equivalent language Sanskrit (Samaskirutham). Sama refers to equivalent and kirutham refers to language.
The aryas has acquired this equivalent language as their own language with their own defined set of values, beliefs, gods or representatives of god, customs, ways of worshipping, level of sin and merit. They influenced it or spread it back on to the Tamilians.
To be even more particular, in the eighth page of the Parithimaar kalaignar’s “Tamil mozhiyin varalaaru (A history of Tamil language)” book, the following lines are given.
“Even before the Tamilians realize, most of the rare things were translated into their language and as if it was something of their own and influenced Tamilians as if it has come from the people of northern language."
Those who need further information on this can read the books of Pulavar Arivudai Nambi, Silambu Naa. Selvaraasu and Avram Noam Chomsky, linguistic scholar. On the internet also you can find the information related to it. The idea of this post is not to discuss about it.
One such thing that has been translated from Tamil is gayatri mantra. Kaayam = body, thiri = life, mantra = protection. Hence gayatri mantra means protecting body as well as life. The translated version or equivalent one is gayatri mantra prevailing at present. Since ages it has been preached through guru only. This is the reason why it has not been known to most of them.
We shall see the way of using gayatri mantra in the next post.
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