[93] The Agamas are Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga. The width, in some parts of the course of the river was so wide, that the name Sarasvati-Sindhaive Sagar has been in use in the scriptures. Its modern conception is based solely on reconstruction. Examples are the Madisar, specific to Tamil Brahmin Community, and the Mundum Neriyathum. With the growing influence of Persian and Sufi music on Indian music, a clear distinction in style appeared from the 12th century onwards. Some of the dark-skinned descendants of Ham went to India, later in 1500BC, were followed by fair-skinned descendants of Shem and Japhet. The SUN is the culprit providing darker skin to the people, living along the equatorial belt,to be able to tolerate the stronger rays. Even in the last 2000 years, the Jews, Christians, Parsis, Agakhanis, and recently, the Tibetans have come to India to settle. The generally accepted concept of Aryans in India today, is that they are the ones living in northern India and Dravidians in Southern India. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. The details about the horse is very interesting, too. At the time of Lord Macaulay's address to the British Parliament in 1835, the population of India was around 200 million (Times Almanac - 182 million in the year 1804). The linguistic evidence for Dravidian impact grows increasingly strong as we move from the Samhitas down through the later Vedic works and into the classical post-Vedic literature. The final -n and -m represent singular and plural. Tens of thousands of hand-written Sanskrit scripts were collected from all over India and sent to various European locations for study. [9], The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate". [96] Early iconography of Murugan[97] and Sivan[98][99][100] and their association with native flora and fauna goes back to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Revision - Guess-work needs to be discarded and correct history needs to be taught in schools. Therefore, every person of the Aryadesh had a right to be an arya person. GS Paper 1 Syllabus: Indian Culture Source: The Hindu Context: Governor of Tamil Nadu was recently criticised for his views on the Aryan-Dravidian divide. The word 'caste' has Portuguese, Spanish and Italian origin - casto, casta, castus, and castaway - happen to describe divisions of the society into four main classes, followed by sub-divisions. Nagalingam, Pathmarajah (2009). "[90], With the rise of the Kuru Kingdom a process of Sanskritization started which influenced all of India, with the populations of the north of the Indian subcontinent predominantly speaking the Indo-Aryan languages.[91]. The last time the linguists went to work to decipher a script was in respect of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, i.e. #notmypresident. It goes on to explain that,for a long time, after their arrival in India, they were in many ways less civilized than the citizens of Mohenjo-daro had been. Every noun has an oblique stem in the singular and plural that is formed by the addition of a suffix (derived from Proto-Dravidian *i, *a, *tt, or *n or a combination of these, in addition to a zero suffix []) to which non-nominative case markers are added. Prof. M Witzel has shown great courage in agreeing this change. The nose shows a wide range of variation, from fine to broad. All of them are equally important, therefore, no one is higher or lower than the other. But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. Examples include Telugu reu pustaklu two books and naluguru manuulu four people (-guru is from *-war). Aryans have mingled with the authentic Indian population, so no one can be characterized as a pure Dravidian or as a pure Aryan. In support of the above, Spencer Wells, in his book, The Journey of Man - A Genetic Odyssey (2002), tried to establish that the source of the human gene was in Africa. [23], The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. TNN / Sep 25, 2009, 01:16 IST. The linguists of the world tried every possible which way to justify their assumption but failed to connect the Indus script with Dravidian origin. [120] The Agamas are a collection of Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga. [21], The process of post-Harappan/Dravidian influences on southern India has tentatively been called "Dravidianization",[22] and is reflected in the post-Harappan mixture of IVC and Ancient Ancestral South Indian people. The present Dravidians, also composed of similar genetic origin-from Indigenous Indian Hunter Gatherers and Neolithic west Asian farmer-gatherers from Ancient Iran, while present-day Dravidian speakers also carry a small portion of steppe pastoralist and additional to the AASI (first populants of the Indian subcontinent) ancestry.[24][25][26]. This event occurred some 5000 years ago, just after Lord Krishna left this world as well as the commencement of the Kali Era. In the 1850s Max Muller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, Theres some overlap of language with culture, but on the whole, there are huge commonalities of The last Ice-Age commenced to recede 10000 years ago (8000 BC). Who ever came from the West is being given the credit for introducing cattle and horses in India. Max Muller and the historians were tied up in knots with the Christian chronology. Thread: Aryan vs Dravidians - A Myth by Dr. Dr. Subramanian Swamy. The European breed is known as Taurine (Bos Taurus). But now the historians had second thoughts and exercised their birth-right to make alterations in historical details. Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. [109] The temples of the Sangam days, mainly of Madurai, seem to have had priestesses to the deity, which also appears predominantly as a goddess. He further states that 'these were people very much the type of our Scandinavian fore-fathers, hard-fighting, heavy-drinking folk, with a certain contempt for the short dark races they conquered, since they called them Dasus or Dasyus - squat creatures, very much as Hitler spoke of those dwarfs of Prague. ANSWER : Difference between Aryans and Dravidians as elucidated. It is pointed out that 'the word Aryans was brutally used by Hitler during world war second to attain exclusion of Jews and other ethnicities (2nd para). Day People vs. Night People: What do they do? The subject matter was, by a simple stroke of pen, changed from Annihilation to Assimilation. He provided The Ark to his beloved Noah. The British had representation in India in the form of British East India Co. Now the British, around 1776, had to leave America, they desired to concentrate in India. A sentence that ends in a noun phrase predicate can become subordinate by the addition of a nonfinite verb such as * to be, or *yan to say. Quotations are signaled by a quotative particle derived from the verb to say meaning having said.. The only matter, these historians are sure of, is that they belong to their race. Look at us - we are up to our necks into the Caste System, and our own government takes the advantage of the divided society. The ancestry of the ASI population is suggested to have averaged about three-quarters from the AASI and one quarter from Iranian-related farmers. The Dravidian languages have a decimal system. The earliest Dravidian literature that we know, the Tamil Sangam Poems of the early suggest that the South Indian tribal Paniya people would serve as a better proxy than the Andamanese (Onge) for the "native South Asian" component in modern South Asians. The lungi consists of a colourful checked cotton cloth. Stupid me, they were from a planet out in space! [103] The king was 'the representative of God on earth' and lived in a "koyil", which means the "residence of a god". Great Gurukuls were established in the South, and for that reason, the South is often addressed as Dravid-desh, and the teachers and the gurus as 'dravid' (dra - drasta and vid - vidya), a knower of knowledge. David McAlpin, "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian". One of the series of lies, was concerning the cultural shock - those invaders provided scriptures, language and the caste system. All rights reserved This is very valuable material. Malayalis are native to Kerala and Lakshadweep, but are also found in Puducherry and parts of Tamil Nadu. Thus,every aspect of the human life, that is considered beneficial to the human society, was qualified by the word 'arya'. If the historians had stopped at creating the invaders, it would have been accepted as normal event, as there were other intruders into India as well. They failed miserably in this task. The word Aryans was brutally used by Hitler during world war second to attain exclusion of Jews and other ethnicities from a specific group of Germans. He clarifies that 'it was by no means did the Portuguese enjoy a monopoly. While Pali and Prakrits were not used by Brahmins, both Pali and Prakrits were IndoAryan languages and ultimately derived from Vedic Sanskrit, which seems to have been brought by MLBA-rich people from Central Asia. Web0:00 / 7:44 Aryans vs. Dravidians" is a Myth | Dr. Subramanian Swamy ji The Festival of Bharat 275K subscribers Subscribe 653K views 4 years ago #Dravidian #Aryan The These conquerors were not builders. [112] It was customary for people who sought victory in war to worship these hero stones to bless them with victory. They are also found in large numbers in Middle East countries, the Americas and Australia. I hope, there are many more like you and who also share. [20][24], Although in modern times speakers of various Dravidian languages have mainly occupied the southern portion of India, Dravidian speakers must have been widespread throughout the Indian subcontinent before the Indo-Aryan migration into the subcontinent. Khorne is quite right in stating the ethnicity of the Iranians. This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans, which became more evident over time with sacred iconography, traditions, philosophy, flora and fauna that went on to influence and shape Indian civilisation. Between the three of them, they have produced world's alphabets, excluding the Chinese and the related ones. Please, do not be unhappy about the darker skin, I have one. He found the word ARYA used 33 times in the whole scripture, and in each case, the use did not refer to an ethnicity or a race. [114][115] Isanasivagurudeva paddhati is another text from the 9th century describing the art of building in India in south and central India. [89] According to Zvelebil, "several scholars have demonstrated that pre-Indo-Aryan and pre-Dravidian bilingualism in India provided conditions for the far-reaching influence of Dravidian on the Indo-Aryan tongues in the spheres of phonology, syntax and vocabulary. In the plural the masculine pronoun was *aw-ar men (which could include women when referring to mixed groups) and non-masculine *aw-ay others (women, other animates, or things). Honestly, there was never really any tribe with the name Aryan. Following are names of Rigvedic tribes: Alina tribe Alina people - Wikipedia [ ht [64], The Indus Valley civilisation (2,6001,900 BCE) located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent is sometimes identified as having been Dravidian. The Ark landed itself on to Mt. In 1856, while the first rail-road through the Indus River Valley was being built, two brothers found the ruins of ancient cities in a jungle area. Medieval Tamil guilds and trading organisations like the Ayyavole and Manigramam played an important role in the southeast Asia trade. Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali, now identified with Krishna and Balarama, who are all major deities in Hinduism today. The temple is built in Dravidian style and occupies an area of 156 acres (631,000 m2).[28]. In the process of simplifying the system, the latter three suffixes have come to be used as common plural for both human and nonhuman nouns. Proto-Dravidian may have been spoken in the Indus civilization, suggesting a "tentative date of Proto-Dravidian around the early part of the third millennium",[7] after which it branched into various Dravidian languages. (Ref: Rigveda, Book ii, Hymn 41, Verses 16/17; Bk vii, 36/6; 95/1 to 6, 96/1). WebThe features of the people of this race are a broad head? The corruption is an outright mismanagement of the nation's business. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. a pictographic and linear script, as far back as 1556. Thus, by a simple stroke of the pen, the invasion by the Aryans (AIT) and ensuing destruction of property, killings of the indigenous, and imposition of slavery, all changed to peaceful migration and assimilation. Telugu of South-Central Dravidian and Kurukh-Malto of North Dravidian have preserved the Proto-Dravidian gender in the singular but independently extended the meaning of *aw-ar to human as happened in South Dravidian. Thus, the ground work was already laid when Lord Macaulay visited India around 1835 to study the educational needs of the Indians. Dravidian is a regional race from the south of India. There are around 14 Aboriginal tribes mentioned in ancient texts, one of them being Dravidas. WebDravidian languages use subjectobjectverb (SOV) word order; the verb occupies the final position in a sentence, a characteristic that is also true of the Indo-Aryan languages. The Religion of the Agamas. [72], Linguist Asko Parpola writes that the Indus script and Harappan language are "most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family". The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal was formed in 1784 with a committee of 30 European members, under the Patronage of Governor General Sir Warren Hastings and the first president Sir Wm Jones. He notes that there are two scenarios for the origin and spread of Dravidians. The basic forms of numerals have neuter (others) agreement; a human suffix *-war or a derivative thereof is added to numeral roots when they classify the human category. In Mahabharata, Bhishma claimed that southerners are skilled with sword-fighting in general and Sahadeva was chosen for the conquest of the southern kingdoms due to his swordsmanship. [48] In fact, Dr. David Reich states that sometime between 1,900 and 4,200 years ago, "profound, pervasive convulsive mixture [between the ANI and ASI] occurred, affecting every Indo-European and Dravidian group in India without exception. According to Max Muller, the Rigveda was written up in 1000 BC (Sacrosanct). Because the original meaning of the word Aryan has not been kept pure and there are additional races living in the region, the entire population of northern India cant be characterized as Aryans. In The Hathigumpha inscription of the Kalinga ruler Kharavela refers to a T(ra)mira samghata (Confederacy of Tamil rulers) dated to 150 BCE. It has a Priestly Decree, issued in 197 BC, inscribed in three scripts in two languages, one Greek and two Egyptian scripts. As the term is commonly used in India today, Aryans are considered to be those who dont hail from India but instead came to India in 1500 BC from southern Russia and Iran. The movements of the people have been taking place in the distant past, e.g. Traditional dress of Dravidian women is typical of most Indian women, that of the sari. While the mutation spread across Europe, another explorer must have brought the mutation eastward to India likely traveling along the coast of the Persian Gulf where other pockets of the same mutation have been found. The Spanish, the English, the Dutch and the French were also caught up in the TRAFFIC IN MEN'. Upon returning to England, he addressed the British Parliament on February 2nd, 1835 as follows: 'I have traveled through the length and breadth of India, and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think, we would ever conquer this country, unless WE BREAK THE VERY BACKBONE OF THIS NATION, WHICH IS HER SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE'. [51], Recent studies have shown that the proto-Dravidians were descendants of neolithic farmers, who are suggested to have migrated from the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran to northern South Asia some 10,000 years ago. The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple located in Indian state of Tamil Nadu is often considered as the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world. [114][116] In north India, Brihat-samhita by Varhamihira is the widely cited ancient Sanskrit manual from the 6th century describing the design and construction of Nagara-style Hindu temples. According to Narasimhan et al. Rosetta Stone is a large slab of stone found at a village by the same name in Egypt. If the system in South-Central and Central Dravidian is understood to reflect the retention of the parent language, the shift of meaning in the plural in the other languages can be explained as a natural one from men to men and women (mixed groups) to women (exclusively), thus generalizing the meaning to any human group. 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