Manonmaniyam (contempt for sanskrit?)

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Dear Smt. Sugrutha,

 

Contacted Dr. Vasu Renganathan (UPenn),

The song section selected by TN govt. is at:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/gif/tamiltay.jpg

 

The full poem is also in Vasu's site:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/tamizhttaay.html

 

Pl. note that there was not any PIL, the TN govt. took

the state poem lines that have no reference to Sanskrit

from P. Sundaram Pillai's composition. He was from

Kerala, Alwaye (I think), and served the govt. of Travancore

for a long time. Sundaram Pillai was the one who

fixed the age of Gnanasambandhar as seventh century

by doing a correlation between epigraphy, and tamil lit.

A key milestone, so far. His drama, ManonmaNiiyam was

one of the first of its kind.

 

Perhaps, the whole poem should be translated by

scholars and analyzed with Tamil literature backdrop.

As I said, in literature the rivalry between the two

classical languages of India is well recorded. Rememeber

F. W. Ellis, and R. Caldwell have written about Dravidian

language family by then. Missionaries, and Madras presidency

colonial rulers were using those writings as well.

Perhaps, essays in Tamil itself will help. May be they

are out there.

 

I do not know prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy's tamil expertise.

Perhaps, she, along with Tamil literary scholars should

translate the whole poem, and also the whole text.

That may involve good amt. of research and some years.

BTW, Manonmaniya nATakam is available at Project Madurai

website in pdf format:

http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/pub/pm0105/manon.pdf

 

For available Tamil works, click "Finished works" button.

http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/

My experience in the internet is that while many talk

tamil nadu politics in english, their biases, and sometimes

even hatred, show up. But rarely they do their writings

in Tamil even tho' ample opportunity exists to start lists

using TSCII fonts. If they start e-lists where they write

extensively in tamil, then we all can undertstand their

skills. Many tamil writers can respond too.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan

 

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