The Meenakshi temple complex is one of the largest in India. The presiding deity at the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, the Athens of South India, is Goddess Meenakshi. The nucleus of the temple is older than the Madurai city. Murugan Temple The Murugan temple at Tirupporur is one of the ma...
The word Dravidian is not a Tamil word, it is derived from the Pali wordDamila(or maybe the Sanskrit wordDravidah) which means people of South India. In fact, the word Dravidian does not refer to a racial group but to the group of languages spoken inSouth India. The main Dravidian lan...
Among the Indian languages, Tamil has the most ancient non-Sanskrit Indian literature. Historians sort out into three periods for the history Tamil language: Modern Tamil (1600 – present), Central Tamil (700-1600) and Old Tamil (300 BC – 700). Writing system Historical evolution of the Tam...
In addition to these a total of 247 Tamil letters, some letters from the Grantha alphabet, which is used to write Sanskrit in South India, are also widely used with the Tamil alphabet. 3 The Parallel Grammar (ParGram) Project (Butt et al. 1999; Butt and King 2002) aims to ...
However, their didactic scope seems to be clear: these are Sanskrit texts presented through vernacular lenses, i.e. in the language spoken by the students.19 Manuscript catalogues generally report whether a manuscript contains more than one script. Therefore, as Tamil language is written almost ...
Tamil literature is as old and as rich as Greek, Sanskrit and Chinese literatures. Tamil grammar is much wider than most of Indian language even before 2500 years ago. Here is the evidence. 1. Tolkappiyam one of the greatest works that the world has ever produced is the oldest extant tre...