Devanaya Pavanar: Perfect combination of superiority and inferiority complexes

 

While idly browsing info about Lemuria, I came across this Tamil supremacist who made these extravagant claims

 He claimed that Tamil is a "superior and more divine" language than Sanskrit. In his view the Tamil language originated in "Lemuria" (இலெமூரியா Ilemūriyā), the cradle of civilisation and place of origin of language. He believed that evidence of Tamil's antiquity was being suppressed by Sanskritists.

(from wikipedia)

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,

c. 200,000 to 100,000 BC, beginnings of Tamil

c. 100,000 to 50,000 BC, growth and development of Tamil,

50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilisation

20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture on 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 wandering in the Solomon Islands saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamil Nadu.

1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king

7th century BC: Tolkāppiyam, the earliest extant Tamil grammar

I am actually open to Graham Hancock type historiography that there was ancient civilization in India that preceded both Dravidian and Aryan presence .  There are some indicators in both Ramayana and Mahabharata as to the same.  However this is not the same as lemuria.  In any event ,assuming that Ramayana was set in far more ancient era, seeing how the distance from southern India to "Lanka" seemed to be 100s or 1000km (depends on how yojanas are measured) , not only does Sri Lanka not fit the profile but also clearly this would be negates the presence of Lemuria  they need to cross the seas rather than traverse on foot.

However even Hancock at his most fanciful doesnt make claims of 100,000 year old civilizations. At the most he refers to ante diluvien cultures which were extinguished 15 to 20, 000 years ago. And lasted about the same amount of time.

However he says something peculiar (bolded text)

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.

"Superior complexion"?? Is this the opinion of the author or of the Tamils of the past. Because I am unaware of any text where Tamils explicitly or implicitly accepted Brahmins as overlords due to their fair skin (I assume that is what he means by "superior complexion"). Brahmin domination of Tamil society didnt happen overnight. Brahmins were present in TN since about 500 BC or possibly earlier. The patronage and privileges extended to Brahmins had ebbs and flows and reached its nadir during the Kalabhra interregnum which the Brahmins refer to as "dark ages" only because the peasants got tired of the Muvendar kings( ironically beloved by Dravidian supremacists)  giving away their lands to absentee Brahmin landlords and reducing them to serfdom.  The Kalabhras were probably pastoral folk for Eastern Karnataka or Orissa/Andhra border who took control of Tamil regions and restored lands to the agrarian classes.  However the later Pallavas ,Pandyas and Cholas restored the aagraham and brahmadeya traditions. This also wasnt without resistance and there were peasant revolts since then even under Vijayanagar and Nayakar kings. It does not seem that they were awed by their Brahmin landlords complexion into compliance.

It seems that the author is grafting his own complexes onto his ancestors and not content with that he even uses the term "primitive credulity of the ancient Tamil kings" . what ? I thought Tamil was this sophisticated 100s of millenia year old civilization and culture and suddenly they are "primitive" and not able to see spiritual posers( as he perceives Aryans) a mile away and exchanged their own sacerdotal language for Sanskrit thanks to the Aryans used car sales pitch.

If you beleive that, you will believe anything.

As with Hindutvadis ,Brahmin, white or black supremacists and now with Dravidians, all of their claims are based on personal shortcoming and complexes . It doesnt take too much deconstruction and dissection to see what really motivates and animates them.