Why did Tiru Valluvar use 500 +++Sanskrit words?-Part 9 (Post No.13,381)

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Why do Tamil Poets call Tirukkural- a Tamil Veda? Part 9

On November 5, 2012, I wrote an article in Tamil titled Valluvar was a Great Sanskrit Scholar in which I gave a list of 137 Sanskrit words in Tirukkural. That list was given by the great Tamil scholar Prof. Vaiyapuri Pillai of Madras University. Those words are repeated many times by Valluvar. He missed the word Adhikaram used in 133 chapters. My linguistic research shows that many more words are of Sanskrit origin. But my latest thinking is that these words might have come from the same source.

I will give just one simple example. Let us take the Tamilword neer for water which is found in the Rig Veda and Tirukkural (TK). Scholars like S K Chatterjee jumped to the conclusion that this and Mayura=peacock=Mayil in Tamil are Tamil words borrowed by the Rig Vedic poets. But those people missed Nereids in Greek which means Water Nymphs. They themselves agree if a word is found in Sanskrit, Greek and Latin they must be words from Indo European group. Sanskrit is also part of the group according to them. According to that rule NEER cant be a Tamil word. But we Tamils use Neer for water everyday and t is not in Sanskrit now.

If you do deep research, you find the missing links in other European languages. Then you will see the root. A lot of pure Tamil words are found in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and in Malysian and Sri Lanka Tamil. But Tamils in Tamil Nadu use different words. It may be due to external influences or just the custom. Even inside Tamil Nadu, some Tamil words are used only in some districts. Why? That is the custom. But if you go to 1000 year old or 2000 year old Tamil literature you may find them in other places as well.

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Sanskrit in TK

Tiru Valluvar was a great Sanskrit scholar. He began his Kural with Sanskrit words (Aadhi, Bhagavan, A-karam, Ulaku) and finished his book with Sanskrit word kaamam.

A-karam in the first Kural. When I went to Sanskrit class as a school student , we began the  the lesson with Sabdams ;all of us will say Akaaraaantha Pulingah Raama Sabdah.

All the words in the Sabda recitation will have kaara – A-kaaranatha, E-kaaranatha, U-kaaranatha etc. Valluvar used Paninian grammar for the letters A-kaara, u-Kaara etc.

So, the very first word in the very first Kural is Sanskrit-

A-kara mudala eluththu ellaam…………………… (Kural 1)

My research shows that Valluvar used Sanskrit in about 600 Kurals. Dravidians saw Sanskrit as an enemy and put counter arguments saying that most of the words in the above 137 list of Prof.Vaiyapuri Pillai went to Sanskrit from Tamil. It was not supported by the Linguistic rules. The real argument would be to say that both the languages had same origin. That is the reason Lord Shiva sent Brahmin Agastya to write a grammar for Tamil language. No one denied it until this day.

Now look at the list given by Prof Vaiyapuri Pillai which I gave in this blog 12 years ago. You take a highlighter pen and high light these words and highlight the word Adhikaaram as well in your TK book.

Before we go into the word list, lot of scholars like G U Pope, VN Ramachandra Dikshitar, Popley, Dr R Nagaswamy, Ellis and others had shown the parallel slokas in Manu Smriti, Artha Sastra, Kama Sastra books. We may leave them saying Great men think alike. I have added the influence of stories from Pachatantara and Puranas in Kurals.

I have given the parallels from Shakespeare, Spinoza, Dryden, Alexander Pope, Seneca, Longfellow, Milton, Molliere, Robert Browning, Plato, Aristotle, Emerson, Bacon, Moses, Bernard Shaw, Machiavelle, Socrates, Voltaire and many more western thinkers in my articles posted here (for this part I am indebted to DR S M Diaz’s two volume Tirukkural Translation. He was I G of Police in Tamil Nadu)

I have added lot of Kurals where we see the influence of Bhagavad Gita; I know Rajaji also did that.

Great men think alike is very true! But Tiru Valluvar is greater than the greatest of these scholars because he put them in one short book! Really a wonder in the world of literature!

Here is the Sanskrit word list in TK:-

In Tamil alphabetical order: Akaram, Achchu, Athi, Avi,Amirtham, Anganam,  Amar, Amarar, Amaichu, Arangu, Arasar, Avam, Avalam, Avai, AAasai, AAkulam, AAchaaram, Aadhi, Aani, AAyiram, AAyam, Isai, Indiran, Imai, Iraa, Ilakkam, Uru, Uruvu, Ulaku, Ulku, Uvamai, Uru, Emam, Er, Kagsu, Karumam, Ganam, Kanichi, Katham, Kaanthu, Kalulum, Kavari, Kavul, Kazakam, Kalam, Kalan, Kanam, Kaarikai, Kaanam Kaamam, Kaaranam, Kaaman, Kaalan, Gunam, Kudangar, Kulam, Kuvalai, Kuur, Kuukai, Kokku, Koti, Kotti, Kottam, Salam, Saman, Sivikai, Suthai, Suuthu,Suuthar,  Takar,  Dhandam, Tavam, Dhanam, Thaamarai, Thinmai, Thaamarai, Thinmai,  Thiru, Thukil, Thuuthu, Thulai, Theivam, Theyam, Thodi, Devar, Thotti, Thoni, Thol, Naththam, Nayam, Naagam, Naavaay, Naagar8ikam, Naamam,     Nichcham, Neer, Nuthuppem,  Bhagavan, Pakkam, Pakuthi, Padaam, Padivaththar, Patham, Payan, Paraththan, Pandam, Palingu, Palli, Bhagyam, Bhaagam, Paavi, Paavam,  Puuriyar, Puusanai/Puujaa, Puruvam (bruva), Bhuutam, Peezillum, Peezai,  Bhuutangal, Pedi, Pey, Mangalam, Madamai, Mathalai, Mayir, Mayil, Manam, Manthiri, Mani, Mathi, Maa, Maadu. Maathar, Maaththirai, Mani, Maayam, Meen, Maanam, Mukham, Yaamam, Vannam, Vznjam,Vali, Vaanikam, Viththakar

வடமொழிச் சொற்பட்டியல்

வள்ளுவர் பயன்படுத்திய வடமொழிச் சொற்கள் பட்டியலை தமிழ் பேரறிஞர் வையாபுரிப் பிள்ளை அளிக்கிறார். அத்தோடு வள்ளுவர்  பயன்படுத்தும் புதிய தமிழ் இலக்கண அமைப்புகளும் அவர் எக்காலத்தவர் என்பதை காட்டிவிடுகிறது.வள்ளுவர் 137 வட மொழிச் சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்துகிறார். ஒவ்வொரு சொல்லையும் பலமுறை பயன்படுத்தும் போது இது பன்மடங்கு அதிகரிக்கும்.: 

அகரம், அச்சு, அதி, அவி, அந்தம், அமிர்தம், அங்கணம், அரங்கு, அமர், அமரர், அமைச்சு, அரண், அரசர், அவம்,அவலம், அவை, ஆசை, ஆகுலம், ஆசாரம், ஆதி, ஆணி, ஆயிரம், ஆயம், இசை, இந்திரன், இமை, இரா, இலக்கம்,உரு, உருவு, உலகு, உல்கு, உவமை, உறு, ஏமம், ஏர், கஃசு, கருமம், கணம், கணிச்சி, கதம்,காந்து, கலுழும், கவரி, கவுள், கழகம், களம், களன், கனம், காரிகை,கானம், காமம், காரணம், காமன், காலம், குணம், குடங்கர், குலம், குவளை, கூர், கூகை, கொக்கு, கோடி, கோட்டி, கோட்டம், சலம், சமன்,சிவிகை,சுதை,சூது,சூதர் , தகர், தண்டம், தவம், தானம், தாமரை, திண்மை, திரு, துகில், துலை,தூது, தெய்வம், தேயம், தேவர்,தொடி, தோட்டி, தோணி, தோள், நத்தம், நயம், நாகம், நாவாய், நாகரிகம், நாமம், நிச்சம், நீர், நுதுப்பேம்,பகவன், பக்கம், பகுதி, படாம், படிவத்தர், பதம், பயன், பரத்தன், பண்டம்,பளிங்கு, பள்ளி, பாக்கியம்,பாகம், பாவம்,பாவி, பூரியர்,பூசனை. புருவம், பூதம், பீழிக்கும் ,பீழை, புருவம், பூசனை, பூதங்கள் பேடி, பேய், மங்கலம், மடமை, மதலை, மயிர், மயில், மனம், மந்திரி, மணி, மதி, மா, மாடு, மாதர், மாத்திரை, மாயம், மானம், மீன், முகம், யாமம், வஞ்சம், வண்ணம்,வளை, வாணிகம், வித்தகர்

To  be continued,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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