Tirukkural – Tiruvalluvar

Tirukkural – Tiruvalluvar

https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2018/06/tirukkural-tiruvalluvar-thebritish.html

The British after getting settled in India, started ruling us. Once they made us their subjects they started to thrust their customs, habits, and ideologies upon us along with their Religion with a view to making us inferiors in every respect. They laid inroads into our culture and tried, at the outset, to separate us the Indians into Aryans and Dravidians which is fundamentally absurd.

 This detrimental think tank contained Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794), Thomas Babington Macaulay, otherwise called as T.B. McCauley (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859), Bishop Robert Caldwell (7 May 1814 – 28 August 1891), George Uglow Pope (24 April 1820 – 11 February 1908) and so many people of the like.

 

Pope was the first person to attempt Tirukkural to translate into English with his venomous outlook of the great work. There were also some sincere and honest scholars who wanted to know about our dharma and the great works of our great people. Two such people are William Henry Drew and John Lazarus.  William Henry Drew translated the first two parts of Tirukkural as prose in 1840 and 1852, respectively. Along with Drew’s English prose translation, it contained the original Tamil text, the Tamil commentary there in was given by Parimelalhagar and Ramanuja Kavirayar's amplification of the commentary. Drew, however, translated only 630 couplets. The remaining portions were translated by John Lazarus, a native missionary, thus providing the first complete English translation.

 

While the former did not even hesitate to express his opinion that Tiruvalluvar is a Christian and interpreted Tirukkural conveniently to his Biblical ideology, the latter one is a true translation of Kural in its true sense.

In this connection it is not out of context to introduce Dr. Nagaswamy a great personality who dedicated himself to Tamil culture and history. Ramachandran Nagaswamy (born 10 August 1930) is an Indian historian, archaeologist and epigraphist who is known for his work on temple inscriptions and art history of Tamil Nadu. He served as the founder-Director of the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department. He was also instrumental in starting the annual Chidambaram Natyanjali festival in 1980. He is an authority in Chola Bronzes. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2018. (Corroborated by Google)

Dr. Nagaswamy, blames colonial scholars for creating anti-Sanskrit ideologies.

It was G.U. Pope who started the mischief of breaking India. He confessed his agenda on his death bed. He admits that his goal has been to attack the Tamil culture and use it as a weapon against the people. He proposes the Tirukkural author as Christian and as much later than the reality just to make him fit his agenda.

He claims that Tirukkural is based entirely on the Bible. But the hard fact is that the Tirukkural ideology is incompatible with Bible in very serious ways. G.U. Pope ignores the terms and ideas that he cannot fit into the Bible. He brings the existence of Valluvar to tenth century as against, between 1^st century B.C. to 1^st Century A.D. (Approximately)

The thesis of Dr. Nagaswamy is as follows:

1. The ancient Tamil classics that comprise the foundation of Tamil culture are based on Vedas and Manu Dharma Shastra as a code of worldly life. Tirukkural, the most important Tamil text claimed by Dravidian chauvinists for separate origins from Vedas is Tirukkural. Yet the 3 books it consists of have direct correspondence with the structure and content of Manu Dharma Shastra.

2. Book 1 of Tirukkural is Aram (అరం) which is an exact correspondence of Dharma. Book 2 called Porul (పొరుళ్) exactly corresponds to Artha in Manu Dharma Shastra. Book3 called Kama is a Tamil version of MDS (Manu Dharma Shastra) thesis on Kama. The sequence as well as exact structure matches perfectly in both Tamil Tirukkural and Sanskrit Dharmaśāstra.

3. Dr. Nagaswamy shows point by point that exact correspondence between this foundational Tamil text and certain Sanskrit shastras. 4. For example, there is EXACT correspondence between the Sanskrit shastras practice of Pancha-maha-yajna (five great yajnas) and their Tamil equivalents, in the ceremonial offering of food to: 1) Devas, 2) Rishis, 3) Pitri/ancestors, 4) Atithi/guests, and 5) Bhuta or other living beings. Dr. Nagaswamy shows that the Tirukkural contains true translation of same Sanskrit verses. 

They did not hesitate to propogate that Saint Thomos in his visit to Tamilnadu of India, which is a coccocted story, mwt Tiruvalluvar and inforced his mind with Christian Philosophy. While the entire Bharat is one and there is no divide like Arya and Dravida, people like Caldwel created  this in a very high scale, which we the Indians believed for a long time.  When the DNA, of the people of the other two big religions of India, also confirms that their ancestors hail from the same Dharma to which we belong even today, where can we find the said division. If the converts in whom the same blood is flowing through their veins and arteries as ours, could realise that they are not aliens we can take the country to any height in any respect.

Swasti.