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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Earliest of these had been found during the reign of Pallava Kings in
Chennai around 5 th Centaury AD. Evidently, this is a Dravidian
influence. In the beginning, Sanskrit was written in Grantha Script.
Later it was transliterated into Nagiri Script after 7 th Centaury AD. The
Grantha Script influenced and produced most of the Dravidian Scripts.
As we can see Sanskrit is essentially a Dravidian development, as the
modern Dravidian languages will show. Anyone can see that most
Dravidian Languages contain large amount of Sanskrit in comparison
with other Northern Languages. This is especially true of Malayalam.
Malayalam came out of Tamil and we see that early Malayalam literature
was all in Sanskrit. Sanskrit was better known in South India than in
North India. Even as late as a century ago – my father’s diaries were in
Sanskrit
Vedic and Sanskrit Languages
When the Harappa civilization was unearthed, linguists from all over the
world were hard at work to decipher the scripts. I have met some of
them back in 1950s while in school. The baffling thing was those
writing were far removed from “Indo-European” scripts. All attempts to
decipher in terms of Indo-European languages failed while it yielded fair
results even in those days using Kodum Tamil as base. Evidently, there
existed a language system that was far more ancient than Sanskrit and
even of Prakrit, which was of Dravidian Origin.
“Vedic is represented by earlier mantras, or verses, which consist
of four Vedas, one of the most famous Indo-European epics of ancient
times. The most ancient is Rgveda, the language of which is rather
archaic and purely Indo-European, practically without borrowed
elements. By the time the Vedas were recorded, the language had already
become extinct: but its structure is believed to preserve features of the
2nd millennium BC… Vedic language is quite similar to Avestan the
Iranian language of the Zoroastrians.
(http://www.geocities.com/indoeurop/tree/indo/vedic.html)
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