From: shivkhokra
Message: 71536
Date: 2013-11-10
Dear Ravi,
A belated Happy Diwali to you and rest of the list!
I did a histogram of all words in Tolkappiyam from the Tamil Virtual university website (http://www.tamilvu.org/). Words which begin with "ca" are given below (number indicates the frequency of occurence):
ca 9
cakAram 1
cakAramoTu 1
cakarak 1
As you can see all these words are sanskrit words. No tamil words begin with "ca".
BTW I am not sure if you are aware of this but Pavanar mentioned exactly the same thing that I said in his book. Pavanar says that Tolkappiyar being a Sanskrit grammarian comitted a mistake by creating a rule which forbids Tamil words beginning with "ச"!
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Shivraj
---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, wrote:Dear Mr.Shivraj
With reference to your citation/claim that "Tolkappiyam
states that no words can start with palatal "ca" while
Nannul many hundred years later has no such rule. All
Dravidian words starting with "ca" are loan words", I wish
to state that quasi/pseudo linguists/grammarians and Pro
Aryan cum (1/2 baked) Sanskrit Scholars in Tamil Nadu have
maliciously cited the wrong patha bhedha of Tholkappiyam
Sutra.
[Further quotation is superfluous and has been removed - RW.]