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> Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> Purana later than Gaudapada. There is also a host of other independent
> research on the Bhagavata, specifically studying its possible Tamil
> origin, which dates the Bhagavata Purana to the 10th century.
Much research on it has been done by various scholars. Here's what Prof.
George Hart, Prof. of Tamil studies (?) in UC Berkeley had to say on sct.
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One of the most intriguing contributions of the Tamil area to Sanskrit
is the Bhagavatapurana. It is pretty universally agreed that it was
written by a Tamilian and that it is filled with motifs and themes from
the Divyaprabandha and other Tamil literature. Its author also uses
"Vedic" forms -- sometimes incorrectly! -- to try to make it sound old
and hoary. This work has catalyzed Bhakti movements all over India and
is, arguably, one of the most important works in the Sanskrit language.
An example of a Tamilism is the word avamocana, "inn." This occurs
nowhere else in Sanskrit -- it is clearly a translation of Tamil viTuti.
On the other hand, the greatest poet of all Indian literature, Kampan,
took his story from Sanskrit. There has been an enormously productive
interchange between Sanskrit and Tamil. GH
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There are also some books on this subject, which I haven't had the chance to
read due to lack of time. Perhaps some one more knowledgeable on Tamil
literature and it's history, like Mani Varadarajan or Badri Seshadri, can fill
in some details.
Ramakrishnan.
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http://yake.ecn.purdue.edu/~rbalasub/
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