Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha in Tamil Veda Tirukkural(Post No.13,375)
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Why do Tamil Poets call Tirukkural- a Tamil Veda? Part 7
There is a very valid reason for ancient Tamil poets praising Tirukkural (TK) as Tamil Veda. The very name of the book is Dhama Aratha Kama! In Tamil author Tiru Valluvar named it Muppaal meaning Three Subjects or Three Sections and divided it into three sections
Dharma/Aram in Tamil
Artha- Porul in Tamil
Kama (kaama) in Tamil (Tamils used the same Sanskrit word)
Let me first tell you some interesting things about this Dharma, Artha and Kaama.
The very word DHARMA is a cognate of Tamil word ARAM. Dharma becomes Dharam in Hindi and Aram in Tamil.
The second interesting thing is these three Hindu values Dharma, Artha Kaama are found in the oldest Tamil book Tolkappiam and Purananuru, part of 2000 year old Sangam Tamil Books.
The third interesting thing is PORUL have same double meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit! This shows both are from the same family of languages; Dravidian family is a fake. Thousands of Tamil words are found in English and hundreds of Tamil words are found in Greek and Latin. That means they are from the same family of languages. Cunning foreigners who came to divide the country and rule and spread Christianity created new family of languages. Even a child can see that all these new words came from Christian priests!
PORUL= meaning, a thing, wealth (in Tamil)
ARTHA= Meaning , wealth (in Sanskrit)
(there are so many words like this; I have written about them in my Linguistics Research Book)
The fourth interesting thing is Tamils differed from Sanskrit speakers in one aspect that they never write about Moksha (veedu in Tamil) , the fourth value.
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Tamil grammatical rules say strange things:
1.A woman should not go abroad (in Tolkappiam)! Manu Smrti says Brahmins should not go abroad.
2.No Tamil should say Mokha openly, because it is a very secret and sacred word.
3.No Tamil should coin any word with Sa sound!! You can’t find a single Tamil word in the list of 100,000 words in the Sangam literature. But few Sanskrit words are used violating Tamil Grammar.
Ancient Tamils never hesitated to use Sanskrit words. The very word SANGAM Tamil Literature is Sanskrit.
The words KAMA, MANAS,HRUTHAYA etc are used through out Tamil Literature for over 2000 years!
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Here are the Tirukkural Couplets with Dharma, Artha and Kama (kaama):-
501, 754, 760
( I have been doing research in Tamil for over 60 years;Guess my age!)
Apply four tests in choosing genuine officers; virtue, wealth, pleasure and fear of death- 501
Or
The choice of he right executives should be decided on by the way they react to the
Four-fold tests concerning Virtue, Wealth, Love and Fear of death- 501
It is in Kautilya’s Artha sastra (saastra) Bk.1 Ch.10
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The wealth must be acquired by righteous means, by honest work. Such wealth brings virtue and happiness-754
Or
Where wealth is acquired in the right way, without taint of evil in end and means
It will lead to righteousness and genuine happiness- 754
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Those who have treasured abundant wealth, easily obtain the other two: virtue and delight-760
Or
To a person, who has earned wealth faultlessly, by hard work,
The other two objects of life come naturally – 760
The three objects of life are
righteousness
wealth
love, as dealt with in detail in three parts by Valluvar.
We see here that Valluvar always has in his mind Dharma Artha Kama .
There are many more places where the commentators use the three values, though Valluvar did not use the words openly.
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Fourth Value Mokha
As per Tamil tradition, Valluvar neither put it as a topic nor used the word; but throughout the section on Aseticism he talks about VEEDU/Moksha by using different words.
–subham—
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