💠 BENGAL-TAMIL CONNECTION 💠
Accidentally found this today, why the Chola coins have Gaudiya scripts (Bangla alphabet) on it. We read about the word Tamil originated from the Tamralipta janapada of Bengal. Now did a bit of research & found this 👇
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Accidentally found this today, why the Chola coins have Gaudiya scripts (Bangla alphabet) on it. We read about the word Tamil originated from the Tamralipta janapada of Bengal. Now did a bit of research & found this 👇
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The name Tamil appears to be only an abbreviation of the word Tamalitti. The Tamraliptas were inhabitants of Bengal & adjoining sea coasts in the Vayu and Vishnu Purans. They were known as Tamil, most probably because they had emigrated from Tamlitti (Tamralipti) ~KS Pillay
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Another tribe of the Tamils was the Vanavar or "Celestials. They were evidently natives of a mountainous region in the North of Bengal, and when they settled in Southern India, they chose for their residence hilly tracts, such as the Kolli-hills the Western Ghats.
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In the 5th century B. C., Vijaya the leader of the first colony of Aryas, from Bengal, landed in Ceylon. The name Tamil appears to be therefore only an abbreviation of the word Tamalittis. The Tamraliptas were inhabitants of Bengal and the adjoining Sea-coast.
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The Villavar and Minavar-The Nagas-Naga tribes: Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar, Aruvalar, Parathavar immigrants from Tamilitti in Bengal called Tamils
> Tamil tribes: Marar, Thirayar, Vanavar or Celestials-Kosar
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> Tamil tribes: Marar, Thirayar, Vanavar or Celestials-Kosar
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💠 ICONS= The Palas of Bengal & Cholas of Tamil both used Tiger as their Royal Emblem, symbolization of Fish shares another grand similarity. Dancing Shiva idol Narteshwar (Bengal) & Nataraj (Tamil) iconic.
📜 Source : The Tamils - Eighteen Hundred Years Ago, by V Kanakasabhai
📜 Source : The Tamils - Eighteen Hundred Years Ago, by V Kanakasabhai
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