Devaneya Pavanar

Devaneya Pavanar ( Tamil தேவநேய பாவாணர் Tevaneya Pavanar , IAST Tēvanēya Pāvāṇar or Devaneya Pavanar or ஞா. தேவநேயன் Na. Tevaneyan , IAST Ñā. Tēvanēyaṉ or G. Devaneyan ; * February 7, 1902 in Sankaranayinar Koil , Tamil Nadu , India ; † 15 January 1981 in Madurai , Tamil Nadu, India) was a Tamil writer and nationalist who glorified and tried to promote his language.

Pavanar wrote more than 35 books. He initiated the Etymological Dictionary Project , Etymological Dictionary Project , for Tamil . In his work, he took the scientifically completely untenable view that Tamil, the oldest language of mankind, developed thousands of years ago on a continent called " Kumari Kandam " and that all other human languages ​​descended from Tamil. He also believed that it was his divine mission to impart this knowledge to the world. He also wrote many pieces of music and poems, including the Venpa collection. The title Senthamil Selvar was awarded to him in 1979 by the state of Tamil Nadu. He was also known as மொழி ஞாயிறு IAST Moḻi Ñayiru , German for 'sun of language' .

biography

Gnanamuthu Devaneyan Pavanar was born on February 7, 1902 in Sankaranayinar Koil, Tamil Nadu . His parents were Gnanamuthu and Paripuranam. He attended CMJ High School, Palayankottai , SSLC (1916-1918), and was trained as a teacher at the University of Madras . Pavanar married in 1930 and had four sons and a daughter who was the fourth child.

He worked as a Tamil teacher at several high schools from 1922 to 1944. During this time he conducted self-taught studies in Dravidian philology and comparative linguistics .

1944-1956 he served as a Tamil teacher at Municipal College in Salem . From 1956 to 1961 he was a lecturer in Dravidian Philology at Annamalai University . He was a member of the Tamil Development and Research Council established by the Nehru government in 1959. As such, he worked on Tamil books for school and college. From 1974 on he was director of the Tamil Etymological Project (a nationalistically tinged pseudoscientific attempt to reduce all the languages ​​of the world to Tamil, which is ignored in the dravidological professional world) and was president of the international Tamil League in Tamil Nadu.

Devaneya Pavanar receptions

Pavanar's theses are in obvious contradiction to the findings of anthropological , historical and linguistic research and are accordingly neither reviewed nor referenced in scientific discourse. However, it can be found in works that propagate linguistic activism, national mysticism (Ramaswamy 1997, 2004) and Indian nationalism (Kaiwar et al. 2003). He is especially valued by Tamil nationalists:

• The Tamil poet Bharatidasan called Pavanar the "King of all Tamils".
• Center of Excellence for Classical Tamil : "Sattambi Swamigal's Adhibhasa, which will attempt to establish Tamil (in the professional world) as the oldest language, will also provide an impetus for Pavanar's discovery."
• Pavanar's literary works and books were “nationalized” (2006) by the Tamil Nadu government as part of the “Golden Jubilee of National Independence”. This means that the copyright of Pavanar's works is now in the hands of the state of Tamil Nadu , and his heirs have received financial compensation.
• M. Tamil Kudimagan, ex-Minister for Tamil Development of the Tamil Nadu government, wrote in the introduction to The Primary Classical Language of the World , which was revised in 2001 : “We are the followers of Pavanar and we will all ideals of Pavanar in everyone follow any path. "

Awards and honors

• Various silver and copper plates from Tamil nationalists
• In February 2006, a commemorative stamp was issued by Devaneya Pavanar in Chennai .

bibliography

English

• The Primary Classical Language of the World , Katpadi Estension, North Arcot Dt., Mukkudal (Nesamani Publishing House), Paari Nilayam, Madras (1966), reprinted by Chennai: G. Elavazhagan, 2001.
• The language problem of Tamil Nad & its logical solution , Mani, Katpadi Extension, North Arcot Dt. 1967
• An Epitome of the Lemurian Language and its ramifications 1980

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1. ↑ Section of the Indian Government for Classical Tamil First National Consultation Meeting (November 18 & 19, 2005) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease/archives/pr2006/pr080706/pr080706fg.htm
3. ^ Directory of Tamil Development, Tamil Nadu Government

literature

• Iravatham Mahadevan : Aryan or Dravidian or Neither? A Study of Recent Attempts to Decipher the Indus Script (1995-2000) In: Electronic journal of Vedic studies . Volume 8, 2002, Issue 1 (March 8), ISSN  1084-7561 . [1]
• Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar and Robin Nelson: Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation . 2003, p. 141.
• P. Ramanathan ( transl .): Nostratics - The Light From Tamil According to Devaneyan (1977-80 studies of G. Devaneyan on the spread in different Language families of the world of derivatives from 22 basic Tamil words) . The Tirunelveli South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society Ltd., Chennai 2004.
• Sumathi Ramaswamy: Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 . In: Studies on the History of Society and Culture . No. 29, University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-520-20805-6 .
• Sumathi Ramaswamy: The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories . University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-520-24440-5 .
• Mu Tamilkkutimakan: Pavanarum tanittamilum, Moli ñayiru Tevaneyap Pavanar Arakkattalaic Corpolivu (On linguistics and historical philosophy of Ñā. Tēvanēyaṉ), International Institute of Tamil Studies, Ulakat Tamilaraycci Niruvanam, 1985.
• Sahitya Akademi: Tevaneyap Pavanar . Cakittiya Akkatemi, 2002, ISBN 9788126014996 .

Web links

• Memorial for Deveneya Pavanar inaugurated in The Hindu on October 31, 2007