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Date uploaded in London – 25 November 2024                 

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Lord Krishna’s name creates some problems for the Tamils. We may even call them puzzles instead of problems.

What are the puzzles?

1.River Yamuna is called Thozunai in Tamil; we don’t know why.

2.Half baked foreigners, and their Indian sycophants have dated Bhagavata Purana, Hari Vamsam and Vishnu Puranam 4^th century CE or later. We find references to Gopis but not Radha. Tamil Akananuru (verse 59), an anthology of 400 verses dealing with Sex, Love and Family life, is referring to Krishna Leela with Gopis; they are begging to Lord Krishna to drop their clothes from the top of the tree where Krishna was hiding them. We know for sure the age of Akanauru is first century CE. That means all the Sanskrit books mentioned above are later works. But I dont believe the half baked “scholars” on this dating issue. If they are right then the puzzle is how come Tamils sang about Krishna Leela before Sanskrit speakers?

3.The third puzzle is a linguistic puzzle. So called scholars said Dravidian languages are different from so called Aryan languages. By putting forth this classification, they proved themselves  idiots. The reason being we find thousands of Tamil words or their cognates in English. We also find scores of Tamil words in Greek . Here is the third puzzle; Maal in Tamil means Vishnu; the reason for calling Him Maal or Thiru Maal (Thiru in Sanskrit is Sri) is his colour is Black. Maal in Greek also Black and they named Melanesia after seeing black skinned people in those Pacific islands. Tol kappiam, considered to be the oldest book in Tamil which  also described Vishnu as Black (Maayon) . All the black gods of Hinduism Krishna/Vishnu, Kali, Vyasa, Draupadi are utter black; This explodes the Aryan Dravidian divide of the Western gangs. So the puzzle is how come Greek and Tamil have Maal meaning the same.

And the fourth puzzle is how come Krishna became Kannan in Tamil and Kannaiah in the North. Bharati, the greatest of the modern Tamil poets sang about Krishna in more than twenty songs calling him Kannan. He also created a new woman character ‘Kannamma’. So, Kannan became more popular than Krishna. The reason for the change is Sanskrit use pure pronunciation, where as Prakrit used corrupted pronunciation. In this way we got Kannan  rom Krishna; Prakrit became Paakatham and Sanskrit became Sangatham in Tamil.

Another surprising thing is we find four or five Sangam poets with Kannan’s name as suffixes. Rudra Kannan= Kannan,s on of Rudra; Kari Kannan= Kannan , son of Kari; Kumattur Kannan= Kannan of Kumattur, Maruthan Kannan= Kannan, son of Maruthan.

And two of the poets sing about Balaraman and Krishnan together in Puranauru (verses 56, 58). And Tamil poets describe even their Vahanas and Flags. That means Tamils were not only religious but also thorough with Hindu literature. And these 18 Sangam Tamil books are secular books. Only in Tirumurukatrup padai we see poms on Lord Skanda. Paripatal (Verses 2, 15) and Kalittokai have innumerable references to Krishna and his bull fighting etc. Last but not the least Tamil poets have names such as Damodaran, Govardhanan, Kesavan , which shows that they appreciated and venerated Krishna’s name.

At first a few scholars argued Kann +an means one who has beautiful eyes But this argument will fall fat when we see Kumattur Kannan etc. No one would say his eyes are as beautiful as Kumattur.

A few scholars derived the name Kanna, Kanniah on the basis of information available at Jataka Tales. Two Jataka stories Ghata and Mahavegga talk about Kanhayana gotram as the gotra of Vasudeva. But this Gotram is not found in Tamil Gotra books. So we have to solve the puzzle by accepting Sanskrit Krishna became Prakrit Kanna and Kanniah in the South and North. Tamils now use both Krishna and Kannan in their songs as well as naming of new children.

–subham—

Tags- Kannan , Khanna, Kanniah, Prakrit, Sanskrit, coruuption, Sangam literature.