Tamil Culture Part Of Sanatana Dharma
Inspired from other blog
People who were living North of Vindhyas were not
seemingly unaware of the existence of the Great Culture that was thriving in the Dravida, meaning
South, part of India , The South of Vindhya ranges.
Viswamitra, banished
his 52 sons to Dravida for having disobeyed and questioned him to the Dravidian
Region.
They found that , of
all the civilizations known then , The Tamils were the only Culture, who were
so evolved that they ascribed five landmasses in their territory,
ascribed Gods, birds.Animals, Palnts, Lifestyle to each of these Divisions,
this was explained in Agathiyam , Thokappiyam , the ancient Grammatical works
of the Tamil language, dated some five thousands years!
Curious fact is that
these Tamil texts quote Vedas and they , in turn, quote, the Tamils!
The great Tamil
Chera King Nedunchearalaathan was the man who fed both the armies of the
Mahabharata War, Kauravas and Pandavas.
He had been
addressed as P’erunchotru Udiyan’ one who fed many number of
Stomachs-Nedunchotru Uthiyan Neduncheralaathan was how he was called.
He donated 100 veli(
one veli= 100 acres) of land to Brahmins on the condition that he should see
the Homa Smoke in the morning from this area every morning!
( source.History of
Tamils By PT.Srinivasa Iengar)
There are references
to Arjuna marrying a Princess from Madurai on his pilgrimage.
Now coming back to
Viswamitra’s sons.
The sons of
Viswamitra mingled with the Tamils and followed the Tamil Customs.
Their descendant ,
Apasthamaba, combined the best of Tamil practices and the Sanatana Dharma ad
compiled the Apashamba Sutra, which is practiced by the Brahmins even
to-day(Apasthamba Sutra)
One notable custom
is the inclusion of Mangaya Dharana, Thali in a Marriage, which is not found in
Vedic Marriages.
And the wearing of
‘Metti’, wring worn around the toe of the leg of Man was practiced among
the Tamils, to indicate that he was married.(women were described as not
looking at Men in the Face!)
This custom was
changed to Women by Apasthamba.
Read the following
information to complicate the issue.
Evidence indicates
that Apsthamba compiled the practices of the Tamils and the Sanatana
Dharma was unaware of the Tamils Culture.
Yet Archaeological
and other Puranic references indicate that there was interaction between
the two great cultures.
It seems that there
were two different cultures existing side by side at the same time.
Or is it that both
were One and that History is lost in India , as usual with us.
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