... error." It was, however, the Tamil language which made the way clear for the intuition so that inspiration could flow freely. "The inspiration developed on the connection of Tamil with O. S. [Old Sanskrit] pointing out lost significations, old roots, otherwise undiscoverable derivations." It was as he was examining the forms, 'vocables,' of the Tamil language "in appearance so foreign to the... in the mind even after several days. Formerly even a verse of Latin, English, Sanskrit carefully studied & committed to memory, would be lost even in a shorter time." His command over the Tamil language progressed so quickly that with Bharati's help he translated into English some pieces from Tamil literature. A few lines from the Kural of Tiruvalluvar; two pieces— Hymn of the Golden Age and ...
... 177 , 182,250 Swadeshi movement, 17.35,39. 40(fn), 156,180,183, 195 Swaraj, 17,35,56,93.180,209 inner, 53 T Tagore, Rabindranath, 17,27, 193, 194,215 Tagore, Surendranath, 13 Tamil (language), 109 Tamil saints, 146 Tantra, 105 Taoists, 190 tapasyd, III taxes, 221 terrorism, 56, 93, 246 theosophy, 94, 200 Tibet, 251 -253 Tilak, Bal Gangadhar, Lokmanya, 17,132, 148, ISS , 160 ...
... is usually imagined. In dealing with it the trenchant distinctions current in the popular mind are wholly out of place. [Sri Aurobindo's footnote.] Page 108 vocables of the Tamil language,* in appearance so foreign to the Sanskritic form and character, I yet found myself continually guided by words or by families of words supposed to be pure Tamil in establishing new relations between ...
... absentia. We have seen how Aurobindo met Paul Richard shortly after his arrival. Pondicherry was a haven for many Nationalists, especially from the south, and they had their own paper in the Tamil language, India. When he felt somewhat safer in his new hideout, the famous Aurobindo Ghose met all of them, including the poet Subramania Bharati, who became a regular house guest. The small Calcutta ...
... Raimundo, The Vedic Experience-Mantra Mafijan, Motilal Banarasi Dass, Delhi, 2001. Pattison, George, The Later Heidegger, Routledge, London, 2000. Pillai, Vaiyapuri S., History of Tamil Language and Literature, New Century Book House, Madras, 1956. Plato , Timaeus, In E. Hamilton & H .Caims (eds). The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1961 ...
... Page 448 a student from Chandernagore who pursued his studies here, and myself. This Purnachandra had gone one better than the rest of us at least in one respect. He had mastered the Tamil language to such a degree that I could find him devouring Tamil novels of the "yellow-back" type with complete ease. How many of us here have learned even the Tamil alphabet? Now to come back to Bengal ...
... where he was being sent, and enable him to communicate with people there. The great God started "beating a drum with his two hands. The sounds that came from the left side were the basis for the Tamil language." The sounds from the right were the basis of the Sanskrit language. 1 In due course, after some interesting adventures, Agastya reached the southernmost section of the Western Ghats, the ... (Malaya mountains) from which flows the river Tāmraparni. "There, in the cool mountain fastness, Agastya produced a giant Tamil grammar called Agctstyam [or Agattiyam] the supposed fountain-head of Tamil language and literature." 1 In the Deccan, he is even now one of the most famous sages and is considered the oldest teacher of ancient times. That work achieved, Agastya and Lopamudra set out to explore ...
... 15 of THE COMPLETE WORKS, pages 37 – 39): It was my stay in Southern India [from April 1910] which first seriously turned my thoughts to the Veda. . . . [O]n examining the vocables of the Tamil language, in appearance so foreign to the Sanskritic form and character, I yet found myself continually guided by words or by families of words supposed to be pure Tamil in establishing new relations between ...
... there was always the difference of language to support the theory of a meeting of races. But here also my preconceived ideas were disturbed and confounded. For on examining the vocables of the Tamil language, in appearance so foreign to the Sanskritic form and character, I yet found myself continually guided by words or by families of words supposed to be pure Tamil in establishing new relations between ...
... was a fragile child and prone to sickness in her early years. She said she was surrounded by so many Tamil amahs from the beginning that she learned very early in her childhood how to speak the Tamil language fluently. There was much concern over the new baby’s health as she was not taking her food properly and was way underweight for her age. She did not sleep well during the night and naturally kept ...
... formed Udavi village school outside Pondicherry. The Udavi school was established by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi and her late husband, Nata Grassi, who had also founded Auroshikha incense factory. Udavi, in Tamil language, means “Help” and the name was given by the Mother. The Auroshikha factory was, at that time, on the grounds of the school but has since moved to Pondicherry. By 1978 I was fully involved as ...
... in Tamil—and this apparently after only a few days of study. Far from writing Tamil poetry Sri Aurobindo never wrote a single sentence even of Tamil prose and never spoke a single phrase in the Tamil language. He listened for a few days to a Nair from Malabar who read and explained to him articles in a Tamil newspaper; this was a short time before he left Bengal. At Pondicherry he took up the study ...
... poets of Madura tumbled into the water of the pool! Yes, the forty-nine envious men fell into the pool amid the lotuses. They came out dripping and ashamed. And from that day, all who speak the Tamil language have a great love for the Kural. Page 239 Children, do you find it sad that the demon of Kaveripakam was slain? And do you think it was a pity that the forty-nine bad poets of Madura ...
... the martial arts, but from the photograph it seems to have been repainted. At around the time that this picture is said to have been painted, ancient teachings were being written down in the Tamil language of South India. These writings included sastras, ancient Indian texts, which described in detail methods of striking the vital points (the spots on the body where a precise blow can knock out or ...
... grew from strength to strength. VOC led a major strike in the European-owned cotton Coral Mills of Tuticorin. Swadeshi meetings with fiery nationalist speeches, probably for the first time in the Tamil language, led to widespread nationalist mobilisation. Colonial ire was turned on the nationalists. VOC and his colleagues were arrested on 12 March 1908, which in turn led to an insurgent uprising in Tuticorin ...
... of India and Tamil scholars and musicians lined up to seek patronage in the court of Ettayapuram. Bharati was a born poet and gifted with the qualities of genius. He learned the nuances of the Tamil language and poetry through his association with the scholars at the court of Ettayapuram. Bharati began writing poetry at the age of seven. When he was eleven he wrote poetry in such a way that even learned ...
... in his own hand the English equivalents for my convenience. I still posses that volume with the marginal notes in his handwriting. Sri Aurobindo himself began about this time his study of the Tamil language, with a Tamil gentleman who used to come to the Karmayogin office. A rather amusing incident has been narrated in this connection by Suresh Chakravarti. You should read Suresh Chakravarti's account ...
... Purna-chandra Pakre, a student from Chandernagore who pursued his studies here, and myself. This Purnachandra had gone one better than the rest of us at least in one respect. He had mastered the Tamil language to such a degree that I could find him devouring Tamil novels of the "yellow-back" type with complete ease. How many of us here have learned even the Tamil alphabet? Now to come back to Bengal ...
... his own hand the English equivalents for my convenience. I still possess that volume with the marginal notes in his handwriting. Sri Aurobindo himself began about this time his study of the Tamil language, with a Tamil gentleman who used to come to the Karmayogin office. A rather amusing incident has been narrated in this connection by Suresh Chakravarti. You should read Suresh Chakravarti's ...
... types in the Tamil race......" " But what then of the sharp distinction between Aryan and Dravidian races created by the philologists ? It disappears. " " On examining the vocables of the Tamil language, in appearance so foreign to the Sanskrit form and character, I yet found myself continually guided by words or by families of words supposed to be pure Tamil in establishing new relations ...
... part, by far the largest, where all languages are direct derivations of Sanskrit and Hindi is a kind of lingua franca, and the southern part, where the four main languages are Dravidian sister languages. Tamil, the language spoken in Pondicherry as well as in neighbouring Tamil Nadu (formerly the State of Madras), is one of these Dravidian languages. (At present, Tamil is spoken by more people in the world... 28 February 1968, in French and English, over a blazing plain of red laterite located on a low lying plateau on the southeast coast of India, a few kilometers north of Pondicherry, in the state of Tamil Nadu. The charter was broadcast directly by Akashvani, the Indian national radio. And it was preceded by the Mother’s salutation: ‘Greetings to all men of goodwill. Are invited to Auroville all those... time of writing this book and for the last four or five years, Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram have become one of the main centres of devotion and pilgrimage in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu. × The sources of these facts are Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition ...
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