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An analysis of ancient Tamil names
Nagswamy R
2013-11-05
- Āttireyan. (Ātreya)
- Āritan. (Hāritan)
- Sāndilyan. (Sāndilyan)
- Kāppiyam. (Kāpyan)
- Cādevan (Jāta vedan)
- Kaucikan (Kaisika)
- Kācipan. (Kāsyapan)
- Vātūli. (Vātulan)
- Mādalan. (Maudgalyan)
- Gārgi. (Gārgi)
- Gautaman. (Gautama)
- Sāndilyan. ((Sāndilya)
- Vānmiki. (Vālmiki)
- Bārattāyan. (Bhāradvājan)
- Kauniyan. (Kaundinya)
- Decidedly northern names
- Kannan 31 persons
- Kumaran
- Kandan
- Cāttan
- Devan
- Bhūti
- Vinnan. (Vishnu)
- Ādan
- Dattan
- Marutan
- Pottan
- Nāgan
- Paduman
- Cēndan
- Kani
- Taccan
- Māran
- Vānikan
- Āciriyar
- Ācān
Among the names of poets listed Kannan that is the name of Krishna predominates, over thirty poets have the name as Kannan. Next comes Cāttanār with about twenty poets with that names, Nāgan by 15 poets, bhūtan by 12 poets, Kumaran by 10, Devan by 8 and so on. If one takes the personal names of the poets , together with the native place names like Madurai , and also father's name the list almost comes to nearly half the total number of all the poets put together. On a random count of 517 such names it is found that 236 are northern names.This is a clear indication that naturalization of northerners with local Tamil population reaches almost 50 %. one can imagine the assimilation of northern Vadacol with Tamil is fairly very high when compared to what has hitherto been imagined. For this computational statistics the publication of "Sanga ilakkiyam, - Ettu tokaiyum and Pattu pāttum" published by Saiva Siddhanta Samajam, Chennai, in the year 1940 has been used. No other Tamil work is available to asses the Tamil exclusiveness. It should therefore be considered that the process of assimilation goes back far early but how early could only be conjectured and not based on evidence. This would also question the theory of Dravidian origin, on scientific evaluation rather than speculative pronouncements. Thus this would question the claim of some international speculators that Harappan civilization is Dravidian in origin by postulating flimsy derivations.