Early Historic Trade of South India | Prof K Rajan | ASC IITGN

[@SureshSuresh-rk7zj]

very valuable and informative talk, Thanks, Professor.

[@themaskedman5954]

Very informative

[@skyquestmani]

Factual

[@punchipoint8457]

Excellent lecture Professor K. Rajan. Thank you. But please note that there is no language called "The Prakrit Language". Prakrit was a term used by ancient grammarians to denote the Indo-Aryan vernaculars - it simply just means vernacular. Even today you can just call any of those languages as a "Prakrit". And you have stated elsewhere that Prakrits are just variants of "The Prakrit language", but they are most certainly not, they are well differentiated individual languages, as Ashokan inscriptions clearly show. If your line of terminology is to be used for the Dravidian languages, then one can say that Tamil is just a variant of "The southern Dravidian Language". Neither "The Prakrit Language" nor "The Dravidian Language" ever existed.

[@amirtharaj-g2l]

Thank you sir! Very Valuable Facts on Tamil PEOPLE'S Inter Continental Trade Activities in 800 bc onwards itself, before days of BAGWAN BUDDHA NAYAKA( 562 BC)! exporting pepper, textiles, glasswares steel, potteries,wood & getting huge piles of gold! PRIMARY Edicts of ASHOKA were found in Greek & Aramaic only & not in Sanskrit (later inscriptions from 1st AD ONWARDS! TAMIL was the only Major Language then, with several Locality Dialects known as Prakrits, Asokan, Magathy, Marathi etc etc...they were all extended Tamils, Vada Mozhi as u said! Indo Aryan, /Indo European is a coined word by the Britishers,& Germanians,no such language! IN 3RD BC, ASOKA'S ERA, MEGESTHANIS. A GREEK AMBASSADOR says categorically, neither people nor royal families were literates. language was prerogative of few sithars,(phylosophers)! inscriptions were READ OUT by A GOVT.appointed reader to the people in public places!what he says is true! AT THAT TIME HERE IN TAMILNADU,KALLANAI, OLDEST DAM OF THE WORLD HAD ALREADY BEEN BUILT BY KARIKAL CHOLAN & THIS HAD BEEN RECORDED IN BLACK & WHITE BY TAMIL POETS,IN PATTINAPPALAI,MADURAI KAANCHI ETC....

[@rubenjames7345]

A little heavy on the accent. Basically unintelligible.

[@ashishsa]

If facing problem you may switch on subtitles. After sometime you will get used to accent. Efforts are needed to learn, it is miniscule compared to kind of reserch he i has put up