more Forty subjects performed a choice reaction time task in which the stimulus was the word Red or Green printed in either red or green ink. Ironically, the non-violence principle of Jainism was an inadvertent catalyst in the development of violence-ridden untouchability among the speakers of Dravidian languages in post-classical Tamil times.įorty subjects performed a choice reaction time task in which the stimulus was the word Red or Gr. In fact, the word pulaiyaṉ, which later came to mean ‘a polluted man’, originally meant ‘a man who causes auspiciousness/prosperity’. When the classical Tamil texts are analyzed using information from the field of Jainism along with philology, Dravidian linguistics, and South Indian epigraphy, one could see that neither untouchability nor caste was indigenous to Tamil society. All these scholars have failed to consider the influence of Jaina worldview reflected in the classical Tamil literature. Pillay and George Hart to state that the concept of untouchability - and hence the notion of caste - has been present from the time of classical Tamil literature. On the other hand, these words have led scholars like K. But, they have not been able to explain away the occurrence of words such as pulaiyaṉ, iḻipiṟappiṉōṉ, iḻipiṟappāḷaṉ, and iḻiciṉaṉ, which are traditionally interpreted as low-born persons in classical Tamil literature. more Tamil nationalist scholars have held that the early Tamil society was casteless. Tamil nationalist scholars have held that the early Tamil society was casteless. It looks like Tamil bardic age values might have played a role in this. Later, the reasons for the Bāṇas choosing to have Bali as the progenitor of their lineage are explored. In the present essay, based on an analysis of Caṅkam texts, and epigraphic data, it is shown first that the Bāṇas must have originated from the Tamil bards. The historians, however, have not explicitly addressed the issues of whether the Bāṇas originated from the Tamil Pāṇar and why they chose to claim Purāṇic Bali to be their progenitor.

Many historians have noted the semantic similarity between the term Bṛhadbāṇa and the earlier Tamil bardic Perumpāṇaṉ of the Caṅkam literature. During their history, they also married into major dynasties like the Cōḻas and claimed to be descendants of a lineage starting from Bali. Rulers with the Bāṇa name existed up to the sixteenth century in the Tamil country. They are first mentioned as Bṛhadbāṇas in the Tāḷagunda inscription of the fifth century. more Historians include the Bāṇas among the important minor dynasties of South India. Historians include the Bāṇas among the important minor dynasties of South India.

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