The Primary Classical Language of the World

"The Primary Classical Language of the World" is a 1966 book by Devaneya Pavanar.

In this book, Pavanar in the English language details his claim that Tamil is a "superior and more divine" language than Sanskrit. In his view the Tamil language originated in "Lemuria" ( _ta. இலெமூரியா "ISOtranslit|Ilemūriyā|ta"), the cradle of civilization and place of origin of language. He believed that evidence of Tamil's antiquity was being suppressed by SanskritistsFact|date=December 2007.

Pavanar's timeline

Pavanar's timeline for the evolution of mankind and Tamil is as follows:
*ca. 500,000 BC: origin of the human race,
*ca. 200,000 to 50,000 BC: evolution of "the Tamilian or "Homo Dravida" [a term of Edgar Thurston's: see Ajay Skaria, "Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India", The Journal of Asian Studies (1997), p. 730.] ",
*ca. 200,000 to 100,000 BC, beginnings of Tamil
*ca. 100,000 to 50,000 BC, growth and development of Tamil,
*50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilisation
*20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilisation
*16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged
*6087 BC: Second Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
*3031 BC: A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamilnadu.
*1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
*7th century BC: Tolkappiyam, the earliest extant Tamil grammar

1000 BC Year of birth of Pavanar's father, who died a bachelor!

Easter Island

Carbon dating, and pollen analysis of lake sediments has led archaeologists to the view that Easter Island was probably settled around 700 CE and certainly not before 300 CEFact|date=December 2007. A lost Tamil culture on the island 20,000 years ago would not fit this chronologyFact|date=December 2007.

Lemuria

Due to advances in the science of Plate Tectonics the idea of geologically recent Lost continents such as Lemuria has been rejected by the scientific community Fact|date=December 2007. However lower sea levels in the last ice age would have left dry land for miles from the coast of current South India and much of the Palk Strait would have been dry land in 16,000 BCFact|date=December 2007.

Quote from Pavanar

In the preface, Pavanar writes:

There is no other language in the whole world as Tamil, that has suffered so much damage by natural and human agencies, and has been done so much injustice by malignant foreigners and native dupes.

The general belief that all arts and sciences are progressively advancing with the passage of time, is falsified in the case of philology, owing to the fundamental blunder of locating the original home of the Tamilians in the Mediterranean region, and taking Sanskrit, a post-Vedic semi-artificial composite literary dialect, the Indian Esperanto, so to speak, for the prototype of the Indo-European Form of Speech.

Westerners do not know as yet, that Tamil is a highly developed classical language of Lemurian origin, and has been, and is being still, suppressed by a systematic and co-ordinated effort by the Sanskritists both in the public and private sectors, ever since the Vedic mendicants migrated to the South, and taking utmost advantage of their superior complexion and the primitive credulity of the ancient Tamil kings, posed themselves as earthly gods (Bhu-suras) and deluded the Tamilians into the belief, that their ancestral language or literary dialect was divine or celestial in origin.

After the independent discovery of Sanskrit by Sir William Jones in 1796, the situation of Tamil became worse, as the Max Mullerian school exclusively devoted its attention to Sanskrit studiesFact|date=December 2007, and blindly believing the Sanskrit recordsFact|date=December 2007, promoted and propagated them far and wideFact|date=December 2007, and thereby gave a fresh impetus to the Sanskritists' Fact|date=December 2007continuation of their ancestral crimes of impostureFact|date=December 2007, plagiarism Fact|date=December 2007and indirect vandalismFact|date=December 2007. Even Dr. Caldwell's researches in Dravidian philologyFact|date=December 2007, though conducted in the heart of the Tamil country for about half a century, could not improve the situation to any appreciable degree, owing to his inaccessibility to the extant ancient Tamil literature and unfavourable obsessions.

Erroneous theories and principles adopted in any branch of science or department of literature have to be discarded forth-with and outright, in the interest of human enlightenment, however deep-seated and long-entertained they may be in the minds of authors and scholars. Fact|date=December 2007

The Aryan suppression of Tamil does not stop with itselfFact|date=December 2007, but affects the growth of three other branches of study of widest human interest, viz., World History, Comparative Philology and Cultural AnthropologyFact|date=December 2007. Sanskrit has usurped the throne of Tamil by fraudulent means, and unless Tamil is restored to its prestine glory, there is no future for itFact|date=December 2007.

It is high time that the Western Universities particularly the West German University, realised their colossal error, at least at this stage, and give Tamil its due place in Comparative Philology. It also behoves the Western Publishers, to bring out revised and expurgatory editions of their publications dealing with South Indian History and Dravidian Philology, as early as possible, in the light of recent research. The present work, embodying the results of my research in Comparative Philology in general and Dravidian Philology at particular, conducted for the past forty years, purports to prove that Old or Lemurian Tamil was not only the parent of the Dravidian family of languages, but also the progeniter of the Indo-European Form of Speech.

Tamil more divine than Sanskrit

In a chapter entitled "Tamil more divine than Sanskrit", Pavanar gives the following reasons why he judges Tamil to be "more divine" than Sanskrit:

Primary Classicality of Tamil

Claims regarding the "Primary Classicality of Tamil":

# Lemurian origin of Tamil.
# Phonological simplicity of Tamil.
# Catholicity of Tamil.
# Tamulic substratum of the Aryan family of languages.
# Morphological purity and primitiveness of Tamil.
# The presence of the words ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in almost all great languages in some form or other.
# Absence of Nominative case-termination in Tamil.
# Separability and significance of all affixes in Tamil.
# Absence of morphological gender in Tamil
# Absence of arbitrary words in Tamil.
# Traceability of Tamil to its very origin.
# Logical and natural order of words in Tamil.
# Absence of dual number in Tamil.
# Originality and natural development of Tamil.
# Highest order of the classicality of Tamil.

Editions

*"The Primary Classical Language of the World", Katpadi Estension, North Arcot Dt., Mukkudal (Nesamani Publishing House), Paari Nilayam, Madras (1966)
*reprint Chennai : G. Elavazhagan, 2001.

ee also

*Pure Tamil movement
*Kumari Kandam
*Antiquity frenzy

References