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Post No. 16,110

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The author of this 2000 year old Sangam Tamil work was a Brahmin belonging to Kausika Gotra; yet he has honestly presented us a correct picture of ancient Tamil society.

Purananuru wonders-56, Tamil Encyclopaedia 96, One Thousand Interesting Facts, Part 96,

At the end of this write up I have shown how Sanskrit and English writers proved themselves fools.

Malaipatukataam continued………… I am using Vaidehi Herbert’s translation; thanks.

Item 789

One other interesting point is Perum Kausikanar’s reference to food items.

Apart from Brahmins and saints, Tamils were predominantly Non – Vegetarians (in fact Anti Valluvar! Anti Ramalinga Swamikal)

When the Tamil poets describe Brahmin houses, they list the vegetarian dishes; they also add dogs and cocks an hens cannot enter their streets.

Here are the references to Food from this Malaipadukadaam:

Lines 112 to 119

Millets, paddy, sugarcane, yam, beans, sesame seeds, white mustard cultivation;

125- ginger cultivation;

131- plantain trees/ banana cultivation;

135- Jhambu fruits which gave name Jhambudwipa to India;

138/9- jack fruit trees;

Mango tree , bamboo trees are also mentioned; all these were used in the Tamil food. Even today Tamils use these items.

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Item 790

Lines 168/9

You will receive from

them dishes with big pieces of meat roasted in ghee along with

coloured millet rice.

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Item 791

Lines 170-185

Along with food that they bring climbing on the

bright mountains,

they will give you sweet liquor aged in bamboo pipes

which you can drink without limits, and for your

hangover to go, in the morning, they will serve you

a dish made with dropped seeds of jackfruits brought

down by waterfalls, big pieces of meat of rapidly running

forest deer that are killed, chopped up pieces of fatty

meat of porcupines killed by female dogs, sweet

tamarind fruits with light covered shells and stems,

fine buttermilk, and seeds growing on bamboo added to

the boiling liquid along with white rice, cooked by

a mountain woman with flowers on her huge hair knot,

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Item 792 Forest mystery and Poet’s warning

If you touch

the protected kuvalai flowers desired by the gods, or see

the places where the mountain deities reside, you will

tremble in distress as though you are losing your life.

Do not stay there for many days.

Here we are remined of  Poet Tennyson

In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem The Lotos-Eaters, the sailors lose their memories and desire to return home after consuming the lotos flower and fruit.

• The food: The inhabitants of the island give the mariners the “lotos” (lotus), described as a sweet, flowery food and fruit.
• The effect: Eating it induces a dreamy, lethargic state of forgetfulness.
• The amnesia: The sailors forget their homes, wives, children, and past heroic deeds at the Trojan War, viewing their former lives as distant, half-forgotten things or vague memories from a dream

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Item 793 temples and worship

On your path, if you see the god in the temple with

old walls, who is worshipped according to tradition,

worship before you leave, but protect your musical

instruments

(this shows even tribal people had temples deep inside the forest).

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Item 794 boar meat

You will see boars killed by forest people.

Roast it in the fire created by dry

bamboo rubbing against each other,

which burns without much smoke, remove the hair on it

and eat it.  Relax and drink the clear water from the

faultless, beautiful, sapphire-coloured, fresh spring with

kuvalai flowers.  Carry the excess big pieces of meat in

heavy bundles

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Item 795

Warriors will feed you

Lines 421-427

If you see warriors ……………………….

they will forcefully feed you abundant

meat and tubers.  They are ones who will protect you,

and not hurt you.

Listen to their command and proceed on the path.

Such is the nature of the forest.

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Item 796

Tasty Tamaringd Rice Dish (baath)

Lines 434-448

Hospitality of Villages with Huts

At night, for your sorrow to go away, you will be served

food cooked with seeds of bamboo that are red like

vēngai flowers cooked with rice grown on high grounds,

along with tamarind gruel with avarai beans.

In all the villages with huts built with poles and thatched

with grass, you will receive daily, huge balls of rice made

with tiny, perfect rice, like tiny gold pieces, ghee, and

sprinkled white flour.  If you stay there and rest, every

day you will be given dishes made with fine millet flour

mixed with sifted sugar powder.  You will sleep, leaving

cold far away, in the warmth of the fire lit with brittle

wood.  Leave in the morning when birds start chirping.

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Item 797 Fish and Rice Dish

Lines 454….. 459

Fishermen with nets enter ponds with kanpu

grass with fragrant flowers, and catch vālai fish ………………..

Their women

wearing pakandrai flowers will serve you pieces of fatty

fish that look like the eyes of drums along with white rice

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Item 798

Nannan = Lord Murugan/Skanda

Lines 490-495

Thinking about Nannan who is like Murukan, victorious

in battles.  They pity you who are like them, and look at

you calmly and sweetly, each one of them accepting you

as their guest, for your sorrow from walking to go away.

Points to be noted—Asvaghosa  a COPY CAT!

Asvaghosa who wrote Buddhacharita, was a copycat.

Kalidasa the greatest of Indian poets and Sangam poets always compared Hindu Gods with heroic kings.

They compare Muruga/Skanda with Hindu Kings because Muruga/Skanda was the Commander in Chief of Divine Army in Indra Loka.

Here also Poet Kaushika compared Heroic Muruga/ Skanda with King Nanna.

Would you believe that in the very beginning of BUDDHACHARITA, poet Asvaghosa who wrote in Sanskrit compared Buddha with Shanmuka (Muruga, Skanda, Kartikeya) ?

Buddha was a compassionate personality according to other texts. This stupid ASVAGHOSA copied Kalidasa and compared him with Buddha in the very beginning of his book.

Foreign rowdies place Kalidasa after him and blamed Kalidasa stealing Deepa Sikha simile. Actualyy Dipa sikha simil is in Madurai Kanchi, a Sanagam tamil work and Gatha Sapta Sati, a Prakrit work.

I am writing this to expose foreign Sanskrit idiots .

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Item 799 Great Tamil Weavers

In many Sangam poems Tamil weavers are praised making clots with RAT HAIR that can be rolled into and sent through a finger ring.

Here also poet Kaushik praised the Tamil weavers!

Lines 565…………..

Nannan’s Generosity

He will give you perfect clothing on which

woven threads cannot be seen and tie it well

around your faultless body, and fresh meat with

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Item 800 Food Again! First Day Treatment on all days!

fat brought by a female dog cooked with long,

white rice and served without limits.  He will give

you gifts with desire even if you stay there for

many days, like what you received on the first day.

If you tell him that you have to leave for your

ancient town, he will give the leader among you

golden lotus flowers, adorn viralis with fine, bright

jewels, give you tall chariots that run perfectly like

flowing water, trained mountain-like elephants

seized or received from enemies as tributes,

large herd of cattle with bulls with ringing bells,

horses with trimmed tufts decorated with golden

saddles, wealth lying on the ground, and all this.

He fills the hands of poets who have nothing,

with his large hands with whirling

bracelets.  He showers unspoiled wealth like the

rain showers on Naviram Mountain where bamboo

grows, the lord of the country surrounded by

mountains from which waterfalls flow down like

raised victory flags, who gives you gifts on the

first day and lets you leave.

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Item 801 Oxford Cambridge Idiots Exposed!

Yousuf became Joseph;

Yesu became Jesus;

Yaaz became Jazz;

Yaazpaanam became Jaffna;

Yava Dwipa became Java in Indonesia;

Hundreds of Y words became J words.

For this stupid English Lexicographers say at one stage Y was introduced into English language and it was written like J.

That is incorrect; I have proved this change is in the Vedas, Zend Avesta and Sangam Tamil literature thousands of years before English language came into this world. English came after Hindi language of India.

N Tamil aJa for Brahma is written as aYan (in Sangam Literature)

Here in line 500 மட நடை ஆமான் கயமுனிக் குழவி   500 , kaYamuni is gaJamuni (elephant calf);

Here we see clearly Y=J; so English Lexicographers must rewrite their INVENTION!

To continued……………………….

Tags – English lexicographers, idiots, Sanskrit idiots, Asvaghosa, copycat, Tamil Non Vegetarian Food! Purananuru wonders-56, Tamil Encyclopaedia 96, One Thousand Interesting Facts, Part 96, item 801