MK Stalin not EVEN aware of 300 years of Tamil historical studies,exposes his ignorance of Tamil Language

Stalin shows his ignorance of Tamil history-Dr.Nagaswamy-Historian,Archeologist & Lingustic Scholar.

Dr.Nagaswamy who is a scholar in both Sanskrit and Tamil shows clearly that the passages in Kural are sequentially based on the Upanishads. Its a simple verifiable fact. Dr.Nagaswamy is an expert in Sanskrit/Tamil/English.Stalin doesnt know even Tamil properly.

Defending his views that Thirukkural is rooted in Vedic tradition, Nagaswamy said that it was not just him, but Tamil scholars for the past 1,000 years, such as Parimelalagar, GU Pope and Dr UV Swaminatha Iyer have all supported this view. Adding that GU Pope, in his book, had made more than a hundred references to Manu Dharma Sastra and Bhagavad Gita,

Nagaswamy said that Stalin was not aware of EVEN 300 years of Tamil historical studies “exposing himself and his ignorance of Tamil language among world Tamil scholars.”

“This is not just my view, but the view of great scholars before me for the past 1,000 years,” Dr Nagaswamy said.

Quoting Parimelalagar, Joseph Beschi (popularly called Veeramamunivar), Ellis, G U Pope and U V Swaminatha Iyer, he recalled that they had all said “in no equivocal terms that Tirukkural has roots in Vedas.” Apart from stating, in his work “Tiruvalluvar Nayanar” (1886), that Tirukkural followed Bhagavad Gita, Pope mentioned that Tiruvalluvar used Chandogya Upanashid – ‘Tat Tvam Asi.’ By tracing the links of Tirukkural to Manu Dharma Sastra more than 50 times, he had even held the view that many verses of Tirukkural were verbatim translations of the Sastra.

The archaeologist asserted that in terms of structure of the text, division of subjects and sequence of the arrangement of verses, Tirukkural had closely followed the Sastra.

As for his nomination to the selection committee for awards of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Dr. Nagaswamy said he had not received any communication till date about the assignment and also the term of reference.

Nagaswamy’s response comes days after Stalin demanded his removal from a committee of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) for allegedly being anti-Tamil. In a sharply-worded statement, Nagaswamy recorded the multiple instances when Kalaignar M Karunanidhi and MK Stalin had praised him for his work on Tamil language. Mentioning how Tamil scholars from world over consider him an authority on the subject, Nagaswamy wrote, “My works on Tamil art and culture for the past sixty years are known the world over. Hence Stalin’s statement that I am anti-Tamil is untenable.”