ORGIN OF ARYANS AND DRAVIDIANS: 1. Aryan Aryans migrated into northern India some three or four millennia ago in small numbers. It was not an Aryan army conquering the natives; it was small groups of migrants entering into the land peacefully. There is some evidence to suggest that the native people there at that time spoke a language close to Tamil (say, proto-Tamil). Since the small number of Aryan migrants were rare amongst the native population, they called them Arian; the Tamil word Aria means rare. So Arian means rare people. In due course the Tamil word Arian changed to Aryan. 2. Dravidan Ancient Tamil people living in northern India might have referred to their ancestral land in the south (souther India or todays Dravidam) as Thiruvidam. Thiruvidam = Thiru + Idam. The Tamil words Thiru means sacred or respected. The Tamil word Idam mean place. So thiruvidam means respected place or sacred place; it is understandable people remembering ancestral homeland with some reverence. (The Tamil word thiru also means wealth. So thiruvidam could also mean wealthy land. It is natural for people to think of original homeland as wealthy, irrespective of whether it was in fact wealthy or not). Thiruvidam changed to Thiravidam or Thravidam; this is the current usage in Tamil. Thravidam mutated to Dravidam in other languages. A person from Thiravidam is called a Thiravidan; The Tamil word Thiravidan mutated to Dravidan in other languages. Some people write it as Dravidian in English (similar to some writing Tamilan as Tamilian).
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:51:49 +0000
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