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Re: DRAVIDIAN RELIGION
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: DRAVIDIAN RELIGION
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From: vidya@cco.caltech.edu (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
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Date: 5 Aug 1994 01:29:20 GMT
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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References: <31mkvq$s4u@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <31mkvq$s4u@ucunix.san.uc.edu> cfswett@aol.com (CFSWETT)
writes:
> Does anyone know whether the ancient pre-Aryan Dravidian religion of
> Sivaism is practiced anywhere in India?
Sivaism, or rather, Saivism, is practised everywhere in India - right from
the Himalayas to Tamil Nadu. As for whether "Sivaism" is pre-Aryan or
Dravidian, well let's leave that alone for a while. Read Klaus K.
Klostermaier's "A Brief Survey of Hinduism", published by SUNY, Albany
press.
Vidyasankar
