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origin, and has been, and is being still, suppressed by a systematic and co-ordinated effort by the
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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
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government in 1959, entrusted with producing Tamil school and college textbooks. From 1974, he was director of the Tamil
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A Silver Plate presented to his by the South Indian Saiva
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Venkatachalapathy, A. R. (2003). "Coining Words: Language and
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Maṇṇil viṇ : allatu, Vaḷḷuvar kūṭṭūtamai, Kāṭṭuppāṭi Virivu, Va. Ā. Māvaṭṭam : Nēcamaṇi Patippakam
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of the Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil recommends
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Ca. Vē Cuppiramaṇiyan̲ and Ka. Ta Tirunāvukkaracu (1983).
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ancient Tamil kings, posed themselves as earthly gods (
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1161:. University of California Press.
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