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Tamil identity is linked to the broader Hindu identity. We witness this in Carnatic music, the Bharatanatyam dance form, temple architecture, sculpture, classical literature, politics and overseas trade. 1/n
The Sangam may not be explicitly religious , but whenever the early poems referred to religious practice, one discerns Hindu observance as in the worship of Mayon or Vishnu, Seyon or Murugan, Kotravai or Durga, Venthan or Indra, and Varuna. 2/n
Tolkappiar mentioned three deities Kodinilai, Kanthazi and Valli in Porul Adhikaram—Purath thinai Iyal. Ilampuranar says Kodinilai is the Sun, Kanthazi is Fire (Agni) and Valli is the Moon. Anyone with common sense can relate it to Vedic gods Indra and Varuna 3/n
KODI NILAI KANDHAZHI VALLI ENDRA
VADU NEENGU SIRAPPIN MATHALANA MOONDRUM
KADAVUL VAZHTHTHODU KANNIYA VARUMAE. Porul 85
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Though Sangam Tamil text does not mention Shiva, it has has many references to Shiva without using the word ‘’Shiva’’. His attributes as we see in the Yajur Veda such as Trinetra, Neelakanda etc, are there in the Sangam Tamil literature. 5/n
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In the classical Tamil works of the Sangam period, we can see many Sanskrit, words.Panini, wrote his inimitable grammatical work,Vyakarana Shastra,based on 14 sutras that emerged from the drum held held by the dancing Lord Nataraja at Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu-not in North India6/n
Post Sangam works like Tirukkural, Silapadhikaram and Manimekalai have even more broader Indic philosophic currents. The era of the Thevaram and Naalaayira Dhivya Prabandham sponsored the growth of Tamil imperial power and helped the political consolidation of the land 7/n
Explains why Thiruvaachakam is sung at the coronation of the Thai king, why the traditional Tamil New Year I observed in Cambodia and Burma, and Tamil influence in the Hindu religious architecture of Indonesia. 8/n

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The recent attitude of the alienation of Sanskrit was absolutely absent in the Sangam&medieval Tamil literature.Tamil kings viewed Tamil and Sanskrit as equally important. Royal inscriptions in the temples in Tamil Nadu used both Sanskrit and Tamil words 9/n
The politics of the Left and Dravidians is dangerous, divisive and politically subversive, and it also represents the entrenched and dominant politics of the writing of Indian history in Indian and world academic circles.But it it has no scholarly basis in fact and evidence 10/n
Tamil tradition is Hindu tradition; Tamil heritage is a continuation of the Vedic civilisation which evolved on the banks of Sindhu-Saraswati and flows down to Kanyakumari.

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