I have written articles on Dravidas ,stating that,
They lived side by side the Sanatana Dharma,
Tamil Brahmi script is found in Indus valley civilisation,
Tamil King Sibi ruled from what is now NWFP in Pakistan,
Chera King Udhiyan Cheralaathan fed both the Kaurava and Pandya armies during the Mahabharatha War,
Lord Krishna attended Tamil Sangam,married a Pandyan Princess and had a daughter through her,
The children of Sage Viswamitra were banished by him to Dravida Desa,
Arjuna,Balarama and Sahadeva went on a Pilgrimage to Dravida Desa,
Lord Rama’s sister’s Rishyashrunga was from Sringeri,Karnataka,
Sage Gautama,after whom the river Godavari is named,was from Godavari valley,Anshra Pradesh,
There was a King Aryaman whose ancestry is traced to Manu,
Cholas were cousins of Solar,Ikshvahu Dynasty,to which Lord Rama belongs,
Cholas,Pandyas are referred to in Ramayana and Mahabharatha,
Manu’s daughter was married to a Dravidian King,
Manu was from Dravida desa and he meditated near Madagascar…..
What is interesting is that Brahui language is spoken in Balochisthan even today.
And it is a Dravidian language.
How come The Dravidian languages spoken in the south of India,about 1000 miles away is being spoken in Baluchisthan?
One theory is that this Brahui was from Central India.
Does it not mean that Dravidiian languages were spoken in Central India as well?
One may have to visit the Gondwana continent concept to clarify this.
Please read my article on Gondwana.
One must bear in mind that the landmass of India and the world were different.
When one studies the Dravidian literature in conjunction with Sanatana Dharma,one may uncover shocking facts.
Looks as though the Dravidian culture preceded Sanatana Dharma.
But this theory goes out of the window because Tamil literature quotes Vedas,Puranas,Ramayana and Mahabharatha and these texts quote Tamil/s!
One is stumped.
Add to this the excavation of a million year old site in Chennai,where traces of advanced Tamil civilization is found.
Poompuhar sites push the date of Tamils by 30,000 years.
More sites,numbering 293 in Vaigai River near Madurai confirm the antiquity as found in the other sites mentioned above.
My view on Brahui being present in Balochisthan is due to the presence of Tamils in these areas when kings from Tamil Nadu invaded them.
There are three kings who have been credited with invading North,not to speak about those who had friendly relations with the people of Sanatana Dharma.
They are,
Aryavarman,
Ariyappadaikadantha Nedunchezhiyan
Imayavaramban Neduncheralaathaan.
I am researching on who the first Tamil king ,who invaded The North of India.
I am reproducing some theories,one of which suggests Dravidian Invasion of India.
Shall examine this theory as well later.
‘The Brahui (Brahui: براہوئی,) or Brahvi people are a Pakistani ethnic group of about 2.2 million people with the vast majority found in Baluchistan, Pakistan.They are a small minority group in Afghanistan, where they are native, but they are also found through their diaspora in Middle Eastern states..
Brahvi[4]/brəˈhuːiBrahui: براہوئی) is a Dravidian language spoken by the Baloch[citation needed] and Brahvi people in the central Balochistan region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and by expatriate Brahvi communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and Iran.It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian-speaking neighbour population of South India by a distance of more than 1,500 kilometres (930 mi).Kalat, MastungKhuzdar and parts of Quetta districts of Balochistan are predominantly Brahvi-speaking…
‘When one looks at the many similarities between certain Brahui words and words used in other Dravidian languages, the connection is clear. In addition to arisiand uru, a few more Brahui words that are clearly Dravidian in origin are listed below:
Today – Aino (Brahui), Innu (Tamil, Malayalam)
You – Ne (Brahui), Ne (Tamil, Malayalam)
Come – Baa (Brahui), Vaa (Tamil, Malayalam)
Snore – Khurkao (Brahui), Khurtai (Tamil)
Eye – Xan (Brahui), Kan (Tamil)
Stone – Xal (Brahui), Kal (Tamil)
Milk – Pal (Brahui), Pal (Tamil)
News – Haval (Brahui), Thahaval (Tamil)
For its numbering system, Brahui draws from a Dravidian source for two (irat akin to the Kannada eradu) and three (musit akin to the Tamil moonu and the Kannada mooru) but from four onwards, the words are clearly Indo-Aryan borrowings (char, paanch and so on). The Brahui word for one (asit) seems to have no connection with any other language. Owing to its long isolation from other Dravidian languages, Brahui morphology has drawn greatly from those around it. Some experts opine that only about 15% of its vocabulary is now Dravidian, with the remaining drawn from Balochi, Persian, Sindhi, Urdu and other languages in its vicinity. Brahui’s vowel system is drawn entirely from Baloch. But experts have also noted that Baloch words, too, have been drawn from Brahui. ..
‘Some consider the Brahui tribe as a left behind relic group of the original Dravidian invaders. This view is supported by an eminent Dravidian linguist, M.S.Andronov (1980).
During the historical migration of the forebears of the modern Dravidians into India. the ancestors of the Brahuis were the first to separate from the bulk of the proto-Dravidian tribes moving to the south and south-east. “The Brahui language” [translated from the Russian by V. Korotky].
People do not look beyond what has been noted by the Western writers and that too what is prescribed to be read by our erstwhile British colonists and the pseudo secularists,who,in the garb of Intellectuals,name given to them by themselves advocate misinformation.
When you look at history from architectural remains,archeology and references in world literature,you would find that the present date of Neolithic,Paleolithic and other age stretch farther back in time than what has been assigned to them.
Shall be writing on these anamolies with evidence.
Thanks to Internet, one can delve deep and find information.
To human presence in the world.
I have written quite a few articles proving that the First human was from India and how the people have migrated from here to other parts of the world.
In fact, there were no other parts,it was only Bharatavarsha.
Please read my articles on Bharatavarsha and Hinduism for details.
Science has advanced.
We now have Archeo-astronomy,that studies archaeology with astronomy,Linguistics as a Science,and archeogenetics.
These tools have helped in identifying the migration of peoples and the cultural and linguistic mother of present peoples ,language and culture.
The languages ,which the west consider as ancient,like Latin,Greek,the cultures like Mynecian,Siberian,Hitties and Anatolian are from India.
During prehistoric times,there was a common language and culture from which all other cultures sprang from.
It was Proto-Indo-European.
Indo European Languages,Proto Indo European origin. Indo-European branches map.png: Hayden120 Georgia (orthographic–projection).svg: Giorgi Balakhadze, Flappiefh derivative work: Alphathon • CC BY-SA 3.0
Map legend.
Description
English: A map showing the approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches within their homelands of Europe and Asia. The following legend is given in the chronological order of the earliest surviving written attestations of each branch:
Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common (more visible upon full enlargement of the map).
The people were also classified as such and they lived in Eurasia,comprising of present Asia and Europe.
The root of their languages were either Sanskrit or Tamil.
Most of them belong to Indo Iranian language,which is from Sanskrit,Brahmi,Prakrit from India.
Their Cultural practices were from Sanatana Dharma/Tamis.
The concept of Cow Worship,Shiva,Sky God is found.
Their land division is akin to Tamils Division of Land.
The Tamils classified regions into five.
Kurinji,mountainous terrain,
Marutham,Agricultural,
Mullai,Pastoral,
Neydhal,Seashore and
Deser regions.
Curiously,Snow region is missing.
This is because the,Tamil land Kumari Kandam was located below the Vindhya Ranges in India and extended to Antarctica.
The land of MU formed its periphery.
Even then no Ice!
Only Ocean!
More of this in a later article.
The land divisions,the evolution of world cultures,language forces me to postulate that th the people of the world were indeed from Bharatavarsha,India.
‘TheIndo-European languagesare alanguage familyof several hundred relatedlanguages and dialects. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to the estimate byEthnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to theIndo-Iranian branch.The most widely spoken Indo-European languages by native speakers areSpanish,English,Hindustani(HindiandUrdu),Portuguese,Bengali,Russian, andPunjabi, each with over 100 million speakers, withGerman,FrenchandPersianalso having significant numbers. Today, about 46% of the human population speaks an Indo-European language as a first language, by far the highest of any language family.
The Indo-European family includes most of the modern languages of Europe – with the notable exceptions of Altaic languages such as Turkish and Azeri; of Uralic languages such as Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, and others spoken in parts of Russia; and of the language isolate Basque. The Indo-European family is also represented in Western, Central, and South Asia. It was also predominant in ancient Anatolia (present-day Turkey), the ancient Tarim Basin (present-day Northwest China) and most of Central Asia until the medieval Turkic and Mongol invasions. With written evidence appearing since the Bronze Age in the form of the Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the second-longest recorded history, after the Afroasiatic family, although certain language isolates, such as Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Hattian and Kassite are recorded earlier.
All Indo-European languages are descendants of a single prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era. Although no written records remain, aspects of the culture and religion of the Proto-Indo-European people can also be reconstructed from the related cultures of ancient and modern Indo-European speakers who continue to live in areas to where the Proto-Indo-Europeans migrated from their original homeland. Several disputed proposals link Indo-European to other major language families.’
Dating of these artifacts recovered from the sites is a challenge to C14,Carbon Dating, as C 14 is useleless in dating beyond 50,000 years.
This,coupled with the systematic misinformation about Indian history by the Agenda filled western scholars(?) Straight from Max Mueller to present day pseudo researchers from the West,the self styled Secularists and Anglophiles,who try to muddle history of India and our general reluctance to study our regional and Sanskrit texts and our labelling them as myth ,without bothering to read them, has to led us to be unaware of our history.
Keezhadi archeological site ,Sivaganga dist. Tamil Nadu.
And the north south divide,the canard of Aryan Invasion and the lie of Tamil and Dravidas being antagonistic to Vedic culture has made us look at Indian history in compartments,looking at Tamil culture,history as alien,against Indian/Vedic culture and treat it as inferior or later to Vedic/Sanatana Dharma.
My researches over the past eight years prove all these assumptions to be wrong.
The Tamil/ Dravidian culture was a part Sanatana Dharma and existed along with it.
It predatess Sanatana Sanatana Dharma, going by the findings of archelogical sites.
For example there are,
A million year old Advanced Tamil site in Chennai,
In Thiruvallur,
20,000 year old Poompuhar site in Tamil Nadu with Vedic Links,
Sites near Palani,Andippati,Adichanallur,……..
Now Kezhadi,in Sivaganga District,near Madurai has revealed a river civilization beneath the ground.
And it belongs to Sangam Era.
Sangam Era is currently dated around 3000 years ago!
Yet Poompuhar is around 20,000 years old.
Tamil Brahmi is older than this,as Cilappadikaram, a Classical Epic of Sangam Era was written, not in Brahmi, but in evolved later Tamil!
Archeologists have, in 2013, have catalogued 293 towns belonging to Sangam Era in Vaigai bed!
Time we rewrote our History.
In a year-long survey conducted in 2013, the state Archaeology department had identified nearly 293 Sangam Age towns along the course of river Vaigai. “Our field of research included areas that fell within five kilometres from the river on both the banks, starting from the place of Vaigai’s origin in Theni district to the very end of the river in Ramanathapuram district,” says archaeologist Dr. V. Vedachalam. The places were classified as granaries, trading points, ports, habitation sites and living or dilapidated temples. Excavations were carried out at Varushanad in Theni and Azhagankulam in Ramnad.
The excavation at Keezhadi has been carried out at two localities in the farm. “Both the places have yielded different items and we presume they represent a social hierarchy,” says Amarnath. The bigger of the two locations with more number of trenches is said to be a settlement of educated rich people, as many jewellery, fine game stones, semi-precious stones and a dozen Tamil Brahmi inscriptions have been found. “Even the brick structures appear more refined.” Beads of agate, Carnelian and quartz indicate that they had trade link with countries like Rome. The Tamil Brahmi letters found on pottery is all names of individuals such as, Thisan, Aadhan and Udhiran. “They are typical Sangam Age Tamil names,” says Amarnath.
Contrary to popular belief,there were five Kingdoms of the Tamils and not three kingdoms,Chera,Chola and Pandya.
The five Kingdoms are,
Chera,
Chola,
Pandya,
Mushika and
Ay.
While the Chera Kingdom extended ,
‘By the early centuries of the Common Era, civil society and statehood under the Cheras were developed in present-day western Tamil Nadu. The location of the Chera capital is generally assumed to be at modern Karur (identified with the Korura of Ptolemy). The Chera kingdom later extended to the plains of Kerala, the Palghat gap, along the river Bharathappuzha and occupied land between the river Bharathappuzha and river Periyar, creating two harbour towns, Tondi (Tyndis) and Muciri (Muziris),where the Roman trade settlements flourished.
The Chola and Pandya Kingdoms were in the interior parts of the present Tamil Nadu.
The western coastal areas were ruled by Cheras,Mushikas and Ays Dynasties.
As the first Chera has been mentioned as having participated in the Mahabharata battle, Chera kingdom is mentioned in the Aitreya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda Ramayana,Sumerian texts and by various historians of Greece,these Kingdoms are to be dated at least towards 5000BC,when Ramayana took place.
For date of Ramayana,please read my article on the date of Ramayana.
Rama’s ancestor Satyavrata Manu,also called as Vaiwasvatha Manu was from the south of Vindhya mountains and the region where he reigned was located near and included Madagascar.
And this was a part of Lemuria/MU.
So the date of these Chera kingdoms,of which the present State of Kerala was a part,may safely pushed back to 5000 BC.
And the landmass then was different,it was in Lemuria/MU.
‘The Cheras were an ancient Dravidian royal dynasty of Tamil origin. The first to establish an historical ruling dynasty in the area, they ruled wide-ranging areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in south-eastern and south-western India respectively, areas that had been settled since at least 5000 BC, when Neolithic carvings had been left in Edakkal Caves. Chera territory included regions such as Venad, Kuttanad, Kudanad, Pazhinad, and others, encompassing the area between Kanya Kumari in the south to Kasargod in the north (now in the far north of Kerala). Also included in this list are Palghat, Coimbatore, Salem and Kollimalai, although they quite probably did not rule all of these areas at all times as ancient borders could be quite fluid at times. Their core territory was in Kerala, while the later rise of the Pallavaspushed them out of Tamil Nadu. However, they did establish a capital at Vanchi, which was known by the Romans as Muzris after an active sea-borne trade sprang up between the two powers.’
The first Chera King was Vanavaramban” Perumchottu Uthiyan Cheralathan.
He took part in the Mahabharata War as the provider of food both to Pandava and Kaurava armies.
He had two sons,each ruling a part of Chera kingdom.
Mushika Kingdom.
‘The Mushika Kingdom (Mushaka Rajya, also called Ezhimalai Rajya, Puzhinadu, Kolathunadu, Chirakkal Rajya among the more common names) was an ancient kingdom of the Tamil Sangam period in present-day Kerala, India, ruled by a royal dynasty of the same name. Its dominions, for most of its recorded history, covered the present-day regions of Northern Kerala, Tulunadu and Coorg, between the western slopes of the Western Ghats in the East and the Arabian Sea in the West.It was one of the five primary ruling dynasties in the ancient Tamilakam of recorded history, and in the Tamil Sangam Period, along with the Cheras, the Pandyas, the Cholas and the Ays. Ezhimalai Nannan was the most powerful ruler of Ezhimalai. He expanded the kingdom to include Gudalur and Coimbatore in his lifetime.
Reference to Mushikas in Mahabharata.
‘
The Mahabharata mentions the Mushika as one of the kingdoms of South India, and is grouped with the Cheras, Pandyas and Cholas.The Mushika Dynasty in the Mahabharata indicates the Ay Dynasty in Thiruvananthapuram area possibly before the formally known Mushika Dynasty branched out.
The Tamil Sangam period is replete with mention of the Mushika Family, and especially that of their most famous ruler Nannan, who had his capital at Pazhi (Pazhayangadi).
The Greek traveler Strabo, who lived around 100 BCE, mentions the kingdom of Mushika in his accounts. The Greek geographer Ptolemy mentions the Ay Dynasty, the mother dynasty of Nannan (Mushika) in the Second Century C.E, and refers to it as “Aoi”
Ays.
The Ay dynasty (I / Ai dynasty) (later known as the Venad and subsequently the Thiruvithamkur Dynasty) ruled parts of southern India from the early Sangam age, which spanned from c. 3rd century BC to c. 4th century AD, till the Independence of India. At their zenith, the dynasty ruled an area extending from Tiruvalla in the north to Nagercoil in the south including western Ghats inn the east.One part of the Ayi Kingdom was headquartered in Mavelikkara while another was headquartered at Periyaoor, later called Keezhperoor, Aykudi, Alwarkurichi,Tenkasi (Ayiraperi village), .
This king is mentioned in the eighth decade of the century by the poet Arisil Kilar after winning a great victory at Takadur against the Adiyaman and two great kings. However, his position in this list is highly subject to change, and he is never shown in the same place twice in other lists. He also goes by the name of Karuvar-Eryia-ol-val-ko-Perunceral Irumporai. It seems likely that he is the son or descendant of Yanaikat-sey Mantaran Cheral (of the second century AD), but the Barr List places him first (as does the Pillai list), ahead of the more traditional founder of the dynasty, Perumchottu Uthiyan Cheralathan, who is shown as the third ruler.
The succession after Peruncheral is where things become really complicated. The kingdom appears to divide in two or, more probably, forms a boundary region that is governed by a junior member of the royal house. Each of Peruncheral’s sons gain a throne of their own with one, seemingly the Vanavar (Vanavarambanas) branch, being the senior.
Natuvan (or Antuvan) Cheral Irumporai and Udiyan Cheral have been connected together as those two sons, since they are already accepted as being brothers. However, it is not certain that Peruncheral is their father. The accepted story is that Udiyan, carrying the dynastic name Vanavaramban, succeeds his father and conquers territory to the north, but he later places his brother Antuvan in charge there to begin a co-ruling ‘dynasty’ while he rules the main kingdom
References in Indian literature might be wished away,if one language mentions a fact.
But it can not be if two languages,which are totally different from each other in Grammar,literature mention the same fact.
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Mahabharata
“Listen as I now recount the isle of Tamraparni below Pandya-desa and KanyaKumari, gemmed upon the ocean. The gods underwent austerities there, in a desire to attain greatness. In that region also is the lake of Gokarna…Pulastya said… Then one should go to Gokarna, renowned in the three worlds. O Indra among kings! It is in the middle of the ocean and is worshipped by all the worlds. Brahma, the Devas, the rishis, the ascetics, the bhutas (spirits or ghosts), the yakshas, the pishachas, the kinnaras, the great nagas, the siddhas, the charanas, the gandharvas, humans, the pannagas, rivers, ocean and mountains worship Uma’s consort there”. Mahabharata. Volume 3. pp. 46-47, 99.’
One must also remember that the culture of people who spoke and wrote in these languages was different,though there is unity lying underneath the surface.
I am referring to Sanskrit,two of the ancient languages of not only of India,but of the world.
These two repeatedly mention the Tamraparani River,now flowing in the south of Tamil Nadu.
Tamraparni is referred to in Tamil Classic Kalithogai and Sanskrit texts.
Tamraparani,aka Thammabanni in Pali flowed into Sri Lanka and Vijaya,the first King of Lanka was from Tamils.
The river flowed into Sri Lanka as well.
Kumari kandam
Considering this and Manu having meditated in Madagascar, I postulate that Tamraparni flowed into Lemuria in ancient times and dynasties flourished.
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While researching for the material to support my view, I had come across information about the Malaya Mountain, Malayamarutha.
Malayamarutha is often mentioned in the Ramayana and repeatedly in Tamil Literature.
Tamil is so obsessive with Malaya Mountain, even the Gentle breeze is named after it, Malaya Marutham.
This wind is recorded to have emanated from the south.’
This land was divided into 49 Naadu, or territories (probably of the size of small districts) between Kumari river and Pahruli / Prahuli / Pakruli river. These are named as seven coconut territories (Ezhu Tenga Natu), seven Madurai territories (Ezhu Maturai Natu), seven old sandy territories (Ezhu Mun-palai Natu), seven new sandy territories (Ezhu Pin-palai Natu), seven mountain territories (Ezhu Kunra Natu), seven eastern coastal territories (Ezhu Kuna Karai Natu) and seven dwarf-palm territories (Ezhu Kurum Panai Natu). All these lands, together with the many-mountained land that began with Kumari-Kollam, with forests and habitations, were submerged by the sea.
‘an ancient name of a river proximal to Tirunelveli of South India and Puttalam of Western Sri Lanka.A toponym, “Tamraparniyan” is eponymous with the socio-economic and cultural history of this area and its people. Movement of people across the Gulf of Mannar during the early Pandyan and Anuradhapura periods, between the Tirunelveli river of Pothigai, Adam’s Peak and the estuary of the Gona Nadi/Kala Oya river of Northwest Sri Lanka, Java and Sumatra led to the shared application of the name for the closely connected region’s culture.The entire island of Sri Lanka itself was known in the ancient world as “Tamraparni”, with use dating to before the 6th century BC. It is a rendering of the original Tamil name Tān Poruṇai of the Sangam period, “the cool river Porunai”
‘the original Tān Poruṇai river in the Eṭṭuttokai anthlogy, meaning “the cool river Porunai”, to Tān Poruṇdam then Tamira Porunai, to Tamraparni then Tambraparni and now called Thamirabarani River.A meaning for the term following its derivation became “copper-colored leaf”, from the words Thamiram (copper/red) in Tamil/Sanskrit and parani meaning leaf/tree, translating to “river of red leaves”
‘The region stretching to Sri Lanka south of Tirunelveli – the citadel of the Pandyan kingdom around the Tān Poruṇai river in Tamil Nadu – was referred to as Tamraparna by extension in the ancient period; Korkai, one of the Pandyan kingdom’s early capitals and the epicentre of the pearl trade, was located at the river’s mouth.Referring to pearls, Kautilya in his Arthasastra speaks of two varieties, “Pandya-Kavadaka” (of Kavadapuram) and “Thamro Par nika, that which is produced in the Tamraparni”, and notes the Pandya country is famed for its gems and pearls. He describes Tamraparni as “a large river, which went to meet and traverse the sea (samudram avaghate) containing the row of islands”. In the grammar anthology Tolkāppiyam, the Chera king Yanaikatchai Mantaran Cheral Irumporai, a contemporary of Pandyan king Nedunjeliyan II c. 135 AD, is mentioned in the phrase honouring the Lord of the river Tān-Poruṇai thus, Vitar-c-cilai poritta ventan vali, Pun-tan porunai-p-poraiyan vali, Mantaran ceral mannavan vali which describes “Long live the king who engraved in the hill, Long live the lord of the river Porunai filled with flowers and cool water, Long live the King Mantaran Chera”
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