{"id":106064,"date":"2020-08-30T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106064"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:23:24","slug":"mahabharata-proves-sinhala-language-is-older-than-tamil-nadu-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/30\/mahabharata-proves-sinhala-language-is-older-than-tamil-nadu-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahabharata Proves Sinhala Language is Older Than Tamil Nadu Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is pointless\nresponding to CV Wigneswaran who seems to find relief in false beliefs to\ncomfort the sad realization that Tamils do not have a nation of their own.\nCraving for a nation of their own is just and fair. But it must not be on\nsomeone else\u2019s land. His claims are baseless and his own beliefs are\ninconsistent with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahabharata\nis an ancient Hindu epic of the land now called India. Its content is mythical but\nsome of the actors and events are reasonably probable. It was written between 3\ncentury BCE and 3 century AD. It relates to events supposedly happened a few\nthousand years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahabharata\nmentions Sinhalas on many occasions including the Kurukshetra war (at times\nwith unflattering descriptions). However, there is no mention of Tamils. There\nis a mention of Dravidians but Tamils are only a fraction of Dravidians. Of the\nDravidians mentioned therein, they could well be Telegu or any other Dravidians\nother than Tamils. Many other ethnic groups are specifically mentioned in the\nMahabharata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dravidians\nor Tamils are certainly not mentioned in relation to the island of Lanka. Only\nSinhalas are mentioned in relation to the island of Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 95% of\nTamils are Hindus and believe in the Mahabharata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is\nconclusive proof that Tamil (Nadu) language is not older than the Sinhala\nlanguage and there were no Tamil Nadu language users in the island of Sri\nLanka, only Sinhalas at the time the ancient Hindu epic was written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever\ndisagreements Sri Lanka had with Wigneswaran and his crowd were sorted out in\nthe battlefield in 2009. It is not worth the while to repeat it when all proof\npoints to the absurdity of his beliefs and claims. If Tamils are serious about\nself-determination, Tamil Nadu is their starting point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara It is pointless responding to CV Wigneswaran who seems to find relief in false beliefs to comfort the sad realization that Tamils do not have a nation of their own. Craving for a nation of their own is just and fair. But it must not be on someone else\u2019s land. His claims are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}