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MARAIMALAIYAM - 33 (A Commemorative Publication of Centenary Celebrations of Pure Tamil Movements) MARAIMALAIYAM - 33 (A commemorative publication of centenary celebrations of Pure Tamil Movements) Can Hindi be the Lingua France of India? Saiva Siddhanta as a Philosophy of Practical Knowledge Prefaces of Maraimalaiyadigal Author Mummozhi Chemmal Marimalaiyadigal Editor A. Mathivanan Publisher G. Elavazhagan Tamizhmann First Edition : 2015 Pages : 328 Price : 410/- Maraimalaiyam - 33 Author Marimalaiyadigal Editor A. Mathivanan Publisher G. Elavazhagan Published by Tamizhmann No. 2, Singaravelar Street, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Ph: 24339030, Cell: 9444410654 E-mail: [email protected] Paper : 16.0 G Maplitho Size : 1/8 Demmi Font : 11.5 Pages : 328 Binding: Perfect Copies : 1000 Book Design : V. Chitra & Mrs. Kayalvizhi Wrapper Design : Kavi Baskar Printers : Venkateswara Offset, Thousand Lights, Chennai - 600 006, & Process India, Thiruvallikeni - 600 005. 3 Preface Maraimalai Adigal who sowed the seed for the Pure Tamil movement was a multi-faced personality. He was a Professor, Scholar, Researcher, Linguist, Orator, Literary critic, Author, Journalist, Nature cure expert, Leader of movements, Printer, Publisher, Psycho analayst, Reformer, Philosopher and Saint. It is rare to find a scholar in the whole of ninteenth and twentieth centuries who could be equated with him. As a scholar par excellence in Tamil, English and Sanskrit, he was the inspiring source for Devaneya Pavanar (1902 - 1981) who spent all his life to establish that Tamil was the primary classical language of the world which could exist independently without the support of any other language. He worked with a single - minded devotion to establish the supremacy of the Tamil language. He put in his best efforts to propagate to the world that Tamil as a classical language deserved the place which the linguists of the world had offered to other classical languages such as Greek, Latin, Hebrew etc. He left no branch of knowledge untouched, be it, literature or linguistics, human physiology or psychology, philosophy or Ethics. With his mastery over Tamil, English and Sanskrit he could establish success in any field he ventured to tread upon. As an avid researcher, his findings paved the way for future researchers. The breadth, depth and length of his research could be evidenced from his masterpiece, ‘Manicka Vasakar Varalarum Kalamum’. (The History and Times of St. Manicavasakar) It stands a testimony to his methodology and establishing the facts with irrefutable evidences. To put it in a nutshell, he was a reformer and a reformist movement by himself. He was all against casteism and he condemned it as a perpetual evil perpetrated by the Aryans. He put 4 Maraimalaiyam - 33 forward very strong ideas against casteism in his Tamil work ‘Sadhi Vetrumaiyum Poli Saivarum’ & ‘Seerthirutha Kurippukal’. To a great extent, the views of Maraimalai Adigal formed the basis for the Justice parties and the Dravidian parties to work for the renaissance of Tamil language and the upliftment of Tamil race. He pioneered the movements such as Pure Tamil Movement, Anti-Hindi Agitation, Saivite Samaj, etc. Among them the Pure Tamil movement has had the distinction of having a triumphant history of a century (1916-2016). He could well be termed a personal medical counsellor to anybody who has studied his Tamil work, ‘Makkal Noorandu Uyir Vazhkai’ (k¡fŸ üwh©L cÆ® thœ¡if). As a dutiful mentor, he would give out the tips on wellness and specific methods of treatment for various diseases only after due testing on himself and members of his family like Roentgen, the inventor of X-ray. He made it a norm to preach the principles of life only after he practised them in his own life. Tamizhmozhi Kavalar Thiru G. Elavazhagan, the founder of Tamilmann Pathippagam has devoted his life for the cause of Tamil. Starting with the publication of complete works of Devaneya Pavanar marking his centenary celebrations in the year 2002 till the current project of bringing out the entire works of Maraimalai Adigal, embarking on marathan projects has become his way of life. To mention a few, the complete writings of Thiru.Vi.Ka, Na.Ci. Kandaiya, Saminatha Sarma, Avvai Duraisami, Navalar Venkatasami Nattar, Vidhwan Gopalaiyar, Sami Chidhambaranar, Pavendar Bharathidasan have been published by him as classic prints for the benefit of the Tamil community at home and abroad. A word of apology: Inspite of all our strenuous efforts, some essays had to be left incomplete since the old volumes were subjected to the ravages of nature and time. And we are unable to retrieve the volumes of ‘Oriental Mystic Myna’ (bi monthly -1908) Sure, if found at a later date, they will be incorporated in the editions to come. It is our earnest desire that the treasures of Maraimalai Adiagal bequeathed upon the Tamil readers, teachers, scholars and students be utilised in full measure in order to reach the horizons of wisdom. A. Mathivanan Editor 5 5 CAN HINDI BE THE LINGUA FRANCA OF INDIA? 6 Maraimalaiyam - 33 Can Hindi be the Lingua7 France of India? 7 PUBLISHERS’ NOTE Lemuria, a continent south of the Kumari river and mountain, submerged in the Indian Ocean, was the original home of man. Tamil was the language spoken by the people there. God Siva, in the form of Sivalinga, representing the tapering tongue of fire or Light was worshipped by the Lemurians. When Lemuria got submerged, the people there escaped to the north, east and west of India and the world. So, Tamil, the Tamils and their religion spread through the length and breadth of the world. Now these facts, testified to by great Historians and archeologists, have to be borne in mind in at- tempting to forge the unity of India and the world. Now these facts, testified to by great Historians and archeologists, have to be borne in mind in attempting to forge the unity of India and the world by the adoption of a commn tongue for India (and the world). Hindi as a hybried, upstart language with no reputable ancient literature or vocabulary of its own, is unfit for adoption as the Lingua Franca of India. These points are made clear by the great Tamil, Sanskrit and English scholar Maraimalai Adigal in his Tamil booklet entitled ‘Can Hindi be the Lingua Franca of India?’ which now has been translated lilnto English by Thiru R. S. Pillai Tamil Research Institute, Madras. Besides, extracts from Maraimalai Adigal’s introduction to a Treatise in English entitled ‘India’s Language Problem ‘ by the great Tamil, Hindi and English scholar K.Appadurai Pillai, M.A.,L.T. Visharad (Hindi), along with extracts from the writings of C. Rajagopalachari, K.M. Cariappa and others are given at the end of the booklet for the benefit of the readers.;l 8 Maraimalaiyam - 33 We express our deep debt of gratitude to our revered Yogi Shuddhananda Bharatiar, for his valuable and erudite foreword contributed to this brochure. It is hoped this prublication will be welcomed lby the public at this crucial lhour of India’s Language Problem and National unity. Can Hindi be the Lingua9 France of India? 9 UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION OF TAMIL Sir Maraimalai Adigal (Swami Vedachalam) is an embodiment of the ancient Tamil culture and civilisation. He was a strong defend of Tamil. He ddistributed a powerful pamphlet challenging Hindi in 1937 when it greatly gained the favour of the Madras State. The pamphlet then in Tami, now in English puts forth strong arguments againsst forced Hindi in Non-Hindi regions. “Hindi off” is its refrain. The pamphlet maintains the right of Tamil to become our Lingua Franca and insists upon the use of English as the link language until Tamil reaches its deserved height of being the national language. It is a bold challenge to Hindi claims. I go a step further and maintain with all the force of my linguis- tic knowledge that Tamil deserves to be the Lingua Universum. It is the most ancidnt living language still developing and expanding. It is andelastic language capable of standing upon its own merit. It does not shine in borrowed feathers. It has the vitality to express all branches of modern Sciences clearly. We have how a very wide circle of poets, writers, novelists, journalists, thinkers, dramatists, essayists, scientists, painters, sculp- tors, philosophers, linguists and oliticians who are harbingers of a vernal renaissance fragrant with the blossoms of love and beauty, and fruits of hope and wisdom. The tpwering glory of Tamil literature is the Tirukkural of Saint Valluvar, the universal lawgiver. The only drawback is that we oftern fail to recognise our own genius. and encourage our great souls by 10 Maraimalaiyam - 33 honouring them properly. Literature is the life-force of a nation. It is an efflorescence of the inner urge of the time spirtit. The poet’s word os the breath of national re-birth. The life of a nation is ensould in the words of the poet. A drop of ink from his pen makes thousands thind. An in- spired writer gives inexhaustible energy to generations. We have a galaxy of such immortals even today just as we had yesterday. We ust find out genius and bring it to open light and encourage it. We iust not allow deservin pens to starve in obscure corners. Tamil has the merit of possessing quality books by inspired authors long before European classical autors were born. The antiquity of Tamil goes as far as 9000 B.C. The lost Lemurian glory was richly compensted bu the Kapatapuram high-lights of literature. Mohenjo-dara and Harappa excavations bring to lght a brilliant evidence of Tamil culture even in the fifth millennium B.C. Considering its great past, its living dyna- mism, its mellifuluours elasticity of expression, its fertility to produce new works in tune with the time spirit, taking itto consideration its vitality to measure the heights of Scientific tehnology, we can very well maintain the invincible capacity of Tamil to develop into a unintain the invincible capacity fo Tamil to develop into a universal language enen like English, French, German and Russian which hold sway over the modern world of scientific intellectualism.
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