There are references in the Vedas about the Tamil Kings, though they are very few.
Some of the, nay most, them relate to Tamil as a Language of Dravida, meaning South,or Kings associated with Literature, things like Pearls, elephants purchased from the Chera Kings, apart from Spices and fine cloth from Korkai.
The earliest reference is in the Rig Veda where it is mentioned that Pearls were brought from the Tamils for offering in the Yagnas.
Fine clothes, especially Saree Cloth was brought in for offering in the Yagnas.
The reference to Tamil kings, which is most popular is the reference to a Chera King, Perunchotruudiyan Neduncheralaathan, who was reported to have fed both the armies of the Pandavas and the Kauravas in the Mahabharata war.
There are references in the Ramayana to indicate Lord Rama visited the ancient cities of Tamil Nadu, including Vaitheeswaran Koil,Rameswaram , among other places.
The curious fact is that there are no references to the expeditions of Tamil Kings into the North, or the great battles of the South.
Nor do I find any references to the valor and Philanthropy of the Tamil Kings in the Sanskrit Literature.
The reference of King Sibi, who was reported to have offered the flesh of his thigh to a Bird in Tamil literature is often linked to Lord Rama’s ancestry of Ikshvaku Dynasty.
This is open to debate.
But the references to Sanskrit Literature , The Puranas and Epics are innumerable to recount in this post.
So much so Tamil has a Ramayana and Mahabharata Edition in Tamil composed by Great Tamil Poets, like Kambar and Villputooraar.
The earlier Tamil Books like Tholkaapiyam, Agathiyam,Thirumurugaatruppadai mention Vedas and Lord Muruga and mention Muruga as Skanda of the Vedas.
But by dating one says that Rig Veda is the earliest literature of Mankind.
It mentions the Tamils of Culture , so are the Ramayana and Mahabharata
If the oldest literature of Sanskrit were to mention Tamil , Tamil must ant-date Sanskrit.
Curiously enough, as I said earlier there is no mention of Tamil Kings or Literature in detail.
My question is that which History is Correct?
By Tamil’s admission and quotes of Vedic Life, Sanskrit and Vedas must have preceded the Tamils.
Yet Sanskrit quotes Tamil/Tamils?
Which history is correct?
Are both of them correct?
Will some readers contribute?
*Inshall be posting more from Archaeology as well om this subject.
The intention is, not to prove which is ancient Tamil or Sanskrit but to find the curious relation of these languages which date the other ancient
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It is highly unlikely that anything can go from Tamil to Sanskrit. Of all Indic languages, Tamil is the most deficient of a full set of consonents. Tamil misspells most Sanskrit words. Take for example Sangham. This is from Sanskrit. WAs the original referring to sangraha (compilation), sankalana (gathering into one or two books) or was it referring to a gathering of 400 poets in an academy? Tamil says the last. There is no independent proof.
Most stalapuranas are based on make believe. Every Puranas claims Bheema stepped here or Hanuman lived in this forest (in Thailand) etc. It is highly unlikely that Pandiyans could have fed the army of Kauravas in Mahabharatha. The logistics is mind boggling.
If you speak of recent history (up to 3000 years) things are more or less clean. But before- there was Indus culture, passed app. 1500 bc and little later came new people from north! There are archeological and linguistic confirmations! Anyway, south India was inhabitate by people before northeren parts, app. 60.0000 ago. And sanskrit, is it really so highly developed? Do you know some slavic IE languages, let say slovenian? Very the same grammar as sanskrit! A lot of simillar words, much more than germanic, latinic languages! So it is all relative and parallel to scriptiures we must follow archeology, linguistic investigations, DNA research….
You are on target.I have traced world languages, Culture, civilization,lifestyle to Sanatana Dharama.Kindly read my posts by googling the term or country +ramanan50 or check under Hinduism category in the blog.Regards
Zanimivo. Je pa vprašanje povezave starodobne južne Indije z dolino Inda ter s Sumerci. Prav tako je izredno zanimivo, da je slovenščina od evropskih IE jezikov najbolj podobna rig.vedskemu sanskrtu! Torej ne gre le za vprašanje odnosa Tamilcev do zgodovine, opisane v puranah (dosti novejše od rig-vede!!!!), ampak zelo obširen so-vpliv kultur, ki imajo poleg jezika še dosti drugega skupnega iz časov nastanka časa. Je pa žalostno, da Slovenov skoraj nihče ne vključuje v te raziskave in to je tudi glavni vzrok, zakaj so neuspešne!
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Interesting. It is a question of old links southern India to the Indus valley and the Sumerians. It is also very interesting that the Slovenian European of IE languages most similar to Sanskrit rig.vedskemu! So it’s not just a question of attitude to Tamils history described in the Puranas (much later the rig-sciences !!!!), but very comprehensive co-influence of cultures in addition to language has a lot of other shared from the time of occurrence of the time. It is unfortunate that Slovenov almost no one involved in this research and this is also the main reason why they are unsuccessful!