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  • Why Hindi, of All Times,Now

    I stopped writing on Political issues in Ramanis blog for the past five years.Reason is that many of the readers felt that political issues need not find a place in a blog dedicated to Sanatana Dharma and antiquity of Hinduism.I agreed.However off and on I write my views in my other site Ramani comments and in Facebook.

    Now there seems to be an attempt at pushing Hindi surreptitiously on Non Hindi speaking people,though there is a vociferous denial to the contrary.

    I would like to share my views now as it is vital that people know what is at stake.

    I have chosen this URL because it is read by more people, with over 16 million hits and about 6000 plus subscribers.

    When people say there is an attempt to push Hindi now, Why this comment was not made after anti Hindi agitation in the sixties in Tamilnadu was successful?

    There has been no talk about this till a few months back.

    There was sporadic mention of this issue by DMK and AIADMK during elections,which no nobody lent credence because everyone knew it was an election gimmick and a non issue.

    Most of the people in Tamilnadu do speak in favour of Hindi now, because of the fear thst these Corrupt fraudsters might come to power and ruin Tamilnadu as they had done .So better to support Hindi rather than to allow these unscrupulous scamsters.

    Now we find the new language policy which provides for learning local language optional but it ensures Hindi as Hindi as Official Language.

    When you make one language as Official, you make non Hindi people in Government service atleast to learn Hindi for better career opportunities.

    The argument is A Nation needs a link language and only then the country will be integrated.

    This is a wrong premise.

    I Had written earlier , in ancient India,where there were over 56 kingdoms,the was no official link language.

    ‘

    There are references to in Tamil literature and Sanskrit Texts, Vedas,Ramayan, Mahabharata,Eighteen Purans and in later Sanskrit and regional literary works.

    Regional literature refers to Sanatana Dharma and Ithihsas in detail, be it Tamil, Telugu,Kannda,Bangla, Oriya.

    Evidence abounds that a healthy trade between the people of the south  and the north flourished since the Vedic period.

    Now the question is how did these people communicate with each other in view of the fact that India has multiple languages and dialects.

    ‘

    There are 22 major languages in India, written in 13 different scripts, with over 720 dialects’  .https://www.justlanded.com/english/India/India-Guide/Language/Languages-in-India

    ‘According to Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. However, figures from other sources vary, primarily due to differences in definition of the terms “language” and “dialect”. The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people’ -wiki

    Sanskrit is said to be oldest language being dated about 5000 years back.

    ( I had written this my not be correct and Sanskrit might be much older along with Tamil, an ancient language of India. million year old Tamil  Site near Chennai ,Tamil Nadu with advanced Tamil civilization.And Tami quotes Vedas and Vedas in turn quote Tamil and Tamil Kings.Please read my articles on this)

    The languages spoken in the south and even among the north indi differ.

    Sanskrit is accepted in all the regions though!

    Groups in India spoke  different languages.

    Yet they were in intimate contact with the Sanatana Dharma People whose language was Sanskrit. https://ramanisblog-in.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/ramanisblog.in/2016/09/27/common-link-language-of-vedic-sanatana-dharma-india/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=16003125637169&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Framanisblog.in%2F2016%2F09%2F27%2Fcommon-link-language-of-vedic-sanatana-dharma-india%2F

    So why now?

    The answer would be there were wars between kingdoms and Bharatvarsha was not United.

    Who said that?

    Read Puranas and History.

    The wars were there because of land ,woman and wealth and not because of Language during the period when kings ruled India.

    Secondly have you stopped internecine quarrels after Hindi was introduced?

    On the contrary, it caused wide spread unrest to the level of people wanting to secede!

    One should remember language , Religious and cultural practices are close to one’s heart and the surest way to destroy unity of a country is by imposing a language, though by cleverly worded communiques.

    One should learn from History.Those who refuse shall be doomed.

    When you say India is a melting pot of various cultures, please remember Language is the root of a culture.

    Another argument advanced to promote Hindi is that it opens up employment opportunities.

    Partially true.

    Merely learning a language can not guarantee employment.

    Do we offer jobs to someone because he knows a language?One needs the skillset for a job.Language will be an additional qualification.If an individual needs it, he shall learn it. Why should Government tell me? If I need to learn a language to survive, I will I shall learn it,wheter you tell me or not.

    Has the government enforced legislation to ensure my welfare for all I need? It is impossible.

    So,why language of all other things?

    Another argument, it is spoken by majority, which can be contested.Which Ishall.

    If majority is the criterion, shall all follow Islam as the most practised Religion of the world?

    This would give the moral high pedestal that you are a really a liberated forward looking country.

    When people talk Hindi as the single largest spoken language of India,which Hindi are you speaking about?

    Hindi spoken in UP,if so of which region of UP?

    Or in Uttarakhand, Himachal, Gujrat, Rajasthan,Punjab, Haryana,Bengal,Odisha,Assam, Meghalaya, Maharastra,AP, Telengana,MP, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala…..?

    So which Hindi are you speaking about?

    Unfortunately those who advocate Hindi are those whose mother tongue is not Hindi.

    Why have they learnt it?

    Because they needed it to survive or advance their careers.

    One need not advise, people will learn if they need it,as I said it earlier.

    The argument that your mother tongue will not be affected because of learning Hindi is erroneous.

    Same canard was put out when English was introduced in India by Macaulay. Read my article on the reason why Macaulay advocated English.

    Now what has happened?

    Most of us read our Religious texts, Puranas and Ithihasas in English.

    We read English nursery rhymes saying Rain Rain go away in a country where we need rains.

    Our children call mother Mummy.

    This process has slowly sounded the death knell of Indian languages.

    Do we want to repeat this by substituting Hindi for English?

    Again only by learning Hindi one gets employment opportunities, how come Hindi speaking people work in non Hindi speaking ,go there to work?

    If you say Hindi speakers learn local language,tell me how many speak and write in Kannada,Tamil, Telugu,Bengali…?

    Why hindi speaking states do not opt to learn other languages, especially from South?

    Where is the statistics?

    And in the committee constituted for Study and promotion of Indian culture, why no south indian is not reprented?

    And a senior Government official says he knows only Hindi and those who do not know Hindi may get out!

    This, in an important Central Government meeting of Officers.

    Would the government have accepted it if Kannada spaeking officer said those who do not know Kannada to get out?

    They might do so only after someone protests?

    Should they protest for their rights?

    Why this sudden surge in promoting Hindi?

    Out of personal experience let me record these facts.

    I have been delivering lectures in various forums,mostly in English because the audience do not know English.

    But in a Meet to be attended bt academicians,which included vice chancellors of Universities, who know English, I was asked to deliver my speech in Hindi.

    I refused.

    Why should I?

    I have a mental block in speaking Hindi,though I can write and understand.Reason is that during my formative years in the sixties, I saw the fanaticism to impose Hindi and this has affected me to a great extent.

    Now I see in various groups, I am ridiculed and Tamil called as Dumeel in Facey communities the moment I post a researched article on the Antiquity of Tamil ,Tamils,Kannada or Telugu.

    People, please remember no language is less than five thousand years old, except Hindi.

    Respect other languages, culture and learn them.

    Don’t ridicule them and promote one surreptitiously.

    There is a larger India ,Bharathavarsha beyond the Hindi belt.

    I know I shall be pilloried for this article.

    Truth has to told.

    To me my mother comes first.

    That doesn’t mean I should ask others to accept her.

    I respect others’ mother at my will.

    Life is not only career, there are things beyond that, if you know what I mean.

    Please don’t insult the language of Sri Tulsi Das by your misadventures like what the Dravidian parties did to Tamil.

    # For those people who say I am a Tamil chauvinist,please read my articles on various, languages cultures in India

    And I am much closer to the people who promote Hindi than others and know their thinking process .

  • Single Letter Poem Kandhar Andhadhi Thithithathai Arunagirinathar

    Single Letter Poem Kandhar Andhadhi Thithithathai Arunagirinathar

    If one researches Tamil and Sanskrit,one would be amazed at the richness of the antiquity of these languages.

    I have been trying to trace their antiquity for the past nine years ,but in vain.

    For sure,

    Both are

    Quite ancient,

    Each quote the other,

    Tamil Brahmi is dated 500 BC ,based on Samanamalai, Adichanallur inscription.

    But my view is Tamil is at least over 11,000 Years old.

    This is based on the excavated site Poompuhar Port of Chera Kings.

    This town is now near Mayiladuthurai,Tamil Nadu.

    There is an advanced Tamil site near Chennai,a million year old.

    Among some unique features of Tamil language is that,

    ‘Tamil’s standard metalinguisticterminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Aryan languages‘

    Will be writing more on these lines.

    Such an ancient language quotes Sanskrit and it refers to Tamil/Tamils.

    There are literary gems in all languages found in India.

    Most of the Indian languages date back to over five thousand years.

    There are unique literary compositions in all Indian languages.

    I have written on some masterpieces in Sanskrit, including the one which forms a circle.

    A sloka in praise of Krishna is a code for the value of Pi.

    There are compositions in some Indian languages which use consonants only for Ramayana.

    I am now quoting a Tamil gem.

    This was composed by Saint Arunagirinathar while he was engaged in a literary duel with Villiputooraar,a great scholar,who wrote Mahabharata in Tamil

    The following poem uses only one letter!

    The consonant ‘Tha’

    The poem belongs to Adhadi genre,where the last word or letter forms the first letter of the succeeding word.

    திதத்தத்தத் தித்தத் திதிதாதை தாததுத் தித்தத்திதா
    திதத்தத்தத் தித்த திதித்தித்த தேதுத்து தித்திதத்தா
    திதத்தத்தத் தித்தத்தை தாததி தேதுதை தாததத்து
    திதத்தத்தத் தித்தித்தி தீதீ திதிதுதி தீதொத்ததே”

    Kandhar Andhadhi,54 Poem.

    Text in English.

    Thithatthathath Thithath Thithithathai

    Thaathuthuth Thithithathai

    Thithatthathath Thithath Thithithathai
    Thethuth Thithi Thattha
    Thithatthathath Thithatathai Thaathathi

    Thethuthai Thaathathi
    Thithaththuthath Thithithi Theethithithuthi Theethothathe’

    Meaning.

    திதி – திருநடனத்தால் காக்கின்ற
    தாதை – பரமசிவனும்

    Thithi-Lord Shiva who dances eternally,The Father
    தாத – பிரமனும்

    Thaatha-Brahma
    துத்தி – படப்பொறியினையுடையதத்தி – பாம்பினுடைய

    Thuththi,- King Cobra,which has Mark in its hood
    தா – இடத்தையும்

    Thaa-resting place
    தித – நிலைபெற்று

    Thitha-The permanent,
    தத்து – ததும்புகின்ற,

    Thathu-Brimming,
    அத்தி – சமுத்திரத்தையும்

    Athi-Ocean
    பாயலாகக்கொண்டு
    ததி – தயிரானது

    Thathi-curd
    தித்தித்ததே – தித்திக்கின்றதென்று

    Thithithathe Sweet
    து – உண்ட கண்ணனும்

    Thu,- the one who partook
    துதித்து – துதி செய்து

    வணங்குகின்ற

    Thuthithu-praying
    இதத்து – பேரின்ப சொரூபியான

    Ithathu-One who is the embodiment of Bliss
    ஆதி – முதல்வனே!

    Aadhi-The One who is the first cause,
    தத்தத்து – தந்தத்தையுடைய

    Thathathu,- with Tusks
    அத்தி – அயிராவதம் என்னும்

    யானையால் வளர்க்கப்பட்ட

    Athi-Brought up by Airawatha,the elephant of Indra,
    தத்தை – கிளி போன்ற

    Thathai-like a parrot Deivayanai’s consort of Murugan, daughter of Indra,

    தெய்வயானைக்கு
    தாத – தொண்டனே!

    Thaatha-Servant,
    தீதே – தீமையே

    Theethe-inauspicious
    துதை – நெருங்கிய

    Thuthai-nearing
    தாது – சப்த தாதுக்களால்

    நிறைந்ததும்

    Thaathu- made of Elements
    அதத்து – மரணத்தோடும்

    Athathu- against death
    உதி – ஜனனத்தோடும்

    Udhi-Birth
    தத்தும் – பல தத்துக்களோடும்

    Thathum-with minerals
    அத்து – இசைவுற்றதுமான

    Athu-that does not move
    அத்தி – எலும்புகளை மூடிய

    Athu-that which covers Bones,
    தித்தி – பையாகிய இவ்வுடல்

    Thithi-this body,
    தீ – அக்கினியினால்

    Theee- (by ) Fire
    தீ – தகிக்கப்படுகின்ற

    Thee- That fire
    திதி – அந்நாளிலே

    Thithi- on the day
    துதி – உன்னைத் துதிக்கும்

    Thuthi-praying you
    தீ – புத்தி

    Thee- my discrimination
    தொத்தது – உனக்கே

    அடிமையாகவேண்டும்

    Thothathu- Should be your slave,your Devotee..

    When my body,which is an empty bag filled with air;bones of which are covered by minerals,

    Is being consigned to Flame,

    My Thoughts should be with you,Muruga,

    Whose,

    Father,who sustains the world by His dance(Siva)

    Brahma, the Manifestor,

    Vishnu,who lies in the ocean,with the Ananta,, The serpent,The sustainer,

    Uncle Krishna,who loves Butter,curds,

    Your wife Devayani, daughter of Indra and brought up by Airawatha,Indra’s 🐘

    All these worship you.

    May mind rest in Thee at the time of my death.

    Thanks to,

    திரு.வாஞ்சீஸ்வரன் கோபால் (ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com

    Image credit.

    http://www.istampgallery.com/saint-arunagirinathar/

  • Tamil As Personification of Subrahmanya, Murugan,Skanda

    Tamil As Personification of Subrahmanya, Murugan,Skanda

    I have written on Subrahmanya,called Murugan in Tamil.

    He, along with his father Shiva is credited with fiunding The Tamil Language.

    He is described as the Tamil God.

    The Tamil word for Subrahmanya is Murugan.

    Murugu in Tamil means ‘exceptionally beautiful’

    Sanskrit and Tamil literature descr Subrahmanya as personification of Beauty.

    Tamil is represented as the personification of Subrahmanya,Murugan,Skanda.

    Subrahmanya appears with two of His two consorts,Valli and Devasena,- 3

    Tamil has these broad divisions -3.

    Iyal,Prose,

    Isai,Music and

    Natakam,Drama.

    Each of these has a different Form and Grammar.

    Tamil letters are divided into three groups,Vallinam,Idayinam and Mellinam and these determine the pronunciation in Tamil. Three.

    க ச ட த ப ற -வல்லினம்.Hard sound

    ங ஞ ண ந ம ன-இடையினம்.Medium

    ய ர ல வ ழ ள-மெல்லினம்.Soft.

    Tamil has Uyir Ezhuthukkal,Base Alphabets-12.

    Subrahmanya has twelve hands((12).

    Tamil letters are divided into three groups,Vallinam,Idayinam and Mellinam and these determine the pronunciation in Tamil.

    These together is 18.

    Subrahmanya has Six faces and Twelve hands.

    Tamil base letters represent His hands (12)and the Tonal difference of Groups of Tamil letters is 18.

    His image with Valli and Devasena,with his mount Peacock,form the Tamil Pranava.

  • Brahui Language Balochisthan Dravidian ,Dravida Invasion of India?

    Brahui Language Balochisthan Dravidian ,Dravida Invasion of India?

    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, Mastung Khuzdar and parts of Quetta districts of Balochistan are predominantly Brahvi-speaking…

    Source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahui_people

    ‘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 arisi and 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. ..

    Source. http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/lWCoIZ2K5dPycrhS1gk6nJ/A-slice-of-south-India-in-Balochistan.html

    ‘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].

    Source. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Brahui-language-classified-as-a-Dravidian-language-Why-is-it-geographically-isolated-from-all-the-other-Dravidian-languages

    Route of Dravidian movement. Image
    Dravidians moved from Northwest of India into India.

  • Early Sanskrit Grammar Before Panini By Agastya? Tholkaapiyar

    Early Sanskrit Grammar Before Panini By Agastya? Tholkaapiyar

    The relationship between Sanskrit and Tamil is interesting.

    Both of them are quiet ancient and each quote the other,leaving one stranded in his efforts to find which preceded the other.

    While there are similarities between Sanskrit and Tamil,there are also striking differences between the two in their Grammar and Spoken Form

    Shall write in detail on this.

    Now I have come across reference in the first Grammar Book of Tamil,dated around 3000 BC,about Tamil Grammar and Sanskrit Grammar. ( I date Tamil much earlier)

    As mentioned earlier,there are vital differences between Tamil and Sanskrit Grammar.

    The Sanskrit Grammar was codified by Panini, around 400 BCE.

    It is called Ashtadyayi.

    However the earlier Grammar was a part of Vedangas(limbs of the Vedas).

    That was called Vyakarana.

    ‘Panini and Yaska, two celebrated ancient scholars of Vyakarana, are both dated to several centuries prior to the start of the common era, likely the 5th-century BCE.However, both of them cite prior scholars and texts, which though lost to history, imply that the field of Vyakarana was an established and developed science of language before them'( wiki- vyakarana)

    Panini did not found Sanskrit Grammar,he codified it.

    There are references that there were Ten Grammar works before Panini.

    Panini refers these Grammarians.

    ‘Apisali, 

    Kasyapa, 

    Gargya, 

    Galava, 

    Cakravarmana,

     Bharadvaja, 

    Sakatayana, 

    Sakalya, 

    Senaka and 

    Sphotayana.’ (  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyākaraṇa )

    Tholkappiyam,the Tamil Grammar was written by Tholkappiyar.

    He says in Tholkaapiyam ,while describing himself as the author of Tholkappiyam,that he leant Vedas from his Guru,Preceptor,who was a learned Brahmin.

    He adds that there was a Grammar Work called ‘Aindhiram’.

    And as Tholkappiyar’s Guru was a Scholar of Vedas,which is in Sanskrit, is it that Aindhiram is a Sanskrit Work?

    Agastya could not have written Aindhiram in Tamil as the First Tamil Grammar Agathiyam was by Agastya,which has been lost?

    Why write two books on the same subject?

    Or ,as Agastya is a schloar in both Tamil and Sanskrit,Aindhiram could be in Tamil?

    I am unable to answer,as Tholkappiyar is not specific about the Language of Aindhiram.

    It can be taken as a Tamil work, as Tholkaapiyar says that he is embarking on Tamil Grammar Work?

    On the other hand,the term Aindhiram/n is the Thathidaanda form of Sanskrit Grammar.

    Janaka’s daughter is Janaki,

    Dasaratha,s son is Dasarathy(Rama)

    In the same vein Aindhiram is after Indra,? Indra,Aindhira?

    This ,of course,is lost.

    Tholkappiyar says that he had studied the ‘Aindhiram’ in detail.

    As Tholkappiyar has learnt this from his Guru,A Brahmin,who was well versed in the Vedas.

    ‘அறம் கரை நாவின் நான்மறை முற்றிய‌

    அதங்கோட்டு ஆசாற்கு அரில் தபத் தெரிந்து
    மயங்கா மரபின் எழுத்து முறை காட்டி
    மல்கு நீர் வரைப்பின் ஐந்திரம் நிறைந்த‌
    தொல்காப்பியன்     எனத் தன் பெயர் தோற்றிப்
    பல் புகழ் நிறுத்த படிமையோனே..

    ‘Me,Thokappiyan,who learnt the Aindhiram Grammar,which describes the functions and rules Word’

    ‘நிலம் தரு திருவின் பாண்டியன் அவையத்து
    அறம் கரை நாவின் நான்மறை முற்றிய‌
    அதங்கோட்டு ஆசாற்கு அரில் தபத் தெரிந்து,’

    ‘I have learnt this from the one,who is well versed in The Vedas,in the presence of a Pandyan King’

    Who this Guru could be?

    Who else ,but Agastya,the Sage who straddles Sanskrit and Tamil.

    Apart from other works,Agastya,

    ‘He and his wife Lopamudra are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature.‘

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agastya

    He is credited with founding Tamil language with Lord Shiva,during First Tamil Sangam.

    Agastya was a Siddha and produced innumerable treatises on Yoga,Science,Metaphysics in Tamil

    His primary disciples were,

    Bhogar,

    Therayar, and

    Tholkappiyar.

    ‘Rishi Agastya is considered as the first and foremost Siddha (knowledge and accomplishments),

    and therefore the guru of many Siddhars. Another name for Rsi Agastya is Kurumuni (short muni). Rishi Agastya made pioneering contributions to the field of Ayurveda (alternative medicine) and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology particularly Nadi Astrology). Rishi Agastya lived for over 5000 years, and one of his medicinal preparations, Boopathi Kuligai, was so powerful that it could even bring the dead back to life. Two of his disciples were Therayar and Tholkappiar carried this knowledge forward for him.’


    (http://blessingsonthenet.com/indianculture/sections/37/maharishi-agastya)

    It is probable that the earlier Grammar,Aindhiram, was written by Agastya and Tholkappiyar learnt it from Agastya.

    And this work could be a Grammar in Sanskrit.

    There is a poem,which ascribes Aindhiram to Lord Shiva.

    This can be seen in the featured image of this article.

    Mamuni Maayon can also refer Lord Shiva.

    Shiva is reported to have founded Tamil Language with Agastya.

    The Tholkapiyam Poem .

    ‘வட வேங்கடம் தென் குமரி

    ஆயிடைத்
    தமிழ் கூறும் நல் உலகத்து
    வழக்கும் செய்யுளும் ஆயிரு முதலின்
    எழுத்தும் சொல்லும் பொருளும் நாடிச்
    செந்தமிழ் இயற்கை சிவணிய நிலத்தொடு
    முந்து நூல் கண்டு முறைப்பட எண்ணிப்
    புலம் தொகுத்தோனே போக்கு அறு பனுவல்
    நிலம் தரு திருவின் பாண்டியன் அவையத்து
    அறம் கரை நாவின் நான்மறை முற்றிய‌
    அதங்கோட்டு ஆசாற்கு அரில் தபத் தெரிந்து
    மயங்கா மரபின் எழுத்து முறை காட்டி
    மல்கு நீர் வரைப்பின் ஐந்திரம் நிறைந்த‌
    தொல்காப்பியன்     எனத் தன் பெயர் தோற்றிப்
    பல் புகழ் நிறுத்த படிமையோனே..

    *There is another view.

    ‘Aindhiram is an ancient book on the science of vasthu sathra and tamil grammer – connected with Tholkappiyam  .It had two volumes.Unfortunately the volume one which deals with the phenetics of tamil grammer associated with Tholkappiyam (this volume of book was called ‘ANIDRA’) is lost in the course of history ,all that is remaining with us is an scientific book on vasthu sathra.

    Who is Mamumi Mayan?
    Mamuni mayan was a famous sidhar ,multi talented geek ,architect , ancient scientist  and the author of Aindhiram..he appears in Ramayana and Mahabharatha also..he is the son of Diti and Kashyapa (a sabdhamaharishi)..Mayan was very close with pandiya king and helped him build the Pandiya mahasabha (which was supposed to be so grand with lot of cool interiors ,it was one of the testimony of Pandiyas excellence in architecture-and the brain behind that brilliance was Mamuni Mayan…if I am right this mahasabha was destroyed by some invader ) 
    P. S. Mayan was the father in law of Ravana, father of Mandodari…’

    Mamuni Maayon can also refer Lord Shiva.

    Shiva is reported to have founded Tamil Language with Agastya.

    ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-mystery-that-our-ancient-literary-work-Aindhiram-ஐந்திறம்-reveals-to-us )