Tamil=Sweetness

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Ronald Landry writes ..

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Agastya paid a visit, long long ago, to the Sanskrit College at

Benares, but he being a wandering hermit, clad in rags, humble-

hearted, and having the pompous airs and assumptions of the

scholar conspicuously absent, he was, needless to say, rejected

outright. Distraught and forsaken, he returned to his little hut

feeling

very sad and terribly alone in the world. There he sought solace by

praying to Chandraswami to teach him a language that was even

sweeter than the sacred Sanskrit. All of a sudden his house became

fragrant. The God spoke softly, 'Look in the corner.' Agastya rushed

to the corner of his house, and in a nook in the wall he found a

small package. He unwrapped it and therein found a stack of Cadjan

volumes. His eyes darted over the inscribed words and he dropped

to his knees shouting, 'Tamil! Tamil!' ('Sweetness! Sweetness!').

The God taught Agastya the language of sweetness which he brought

to the south and taught to the Dravidian people.