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குறவர் - தென்னிந்திய முதல் தொல் மலைக்குடி
குறவர் - தென்னிந்திய முதல் தொல் மலைக்குடி
தெய்லங்கள்
2. P.T. Srinivasa Iyengar History of the Tamils From the earliest times to 600 A.D.
pages 5 and 6.
//“The hunter: The earliest region inhabited by South Indian man was the
Kurunji, the tracts where stand the low hills resulting from the age-long
erosion of the Deccan plateau by the never failing yearly monsoon rains.
Below the hilly regions was the thickly wooded tropical forest,...... Early
man in Kurinji land at first subsisted on fruits, nuts and tubers. But, the
variations in the supply of these articles of food due to seasonal changes
soon impelled him to add the flesh of animals to his dietary..... The bamboo
grows abundantly in the Kurinji regions of Southern India and the Kuravar,
as the inhabitants of that land were called, shrewdly noted the elasticity of
the split trunks of the bamboo, bent them, tied long bits of dried creeper to
them and learnt to shoot thence long thorns. This was the origin of the
bow,....... The other invention of the early Koravar, the greatest of human
inventions, was the making of fire.....”//
Kaniyans and the Panikkans are a somewhat learned caste; and their astrology and
divination lead them to the worship of higher deities. The Panans, on the other
hand, resort to the practice of the black art; and their religion consists in an all-
pervading demonology. Their chief gods are Mookkan, Chathan, Kappiri,
Malankorathi and Kali.)
சுட்டிக் கொட்டுகிமொர். ( பக்கம் 167, 168 - Though most Kadar know, even
nowadays, the names of the main iin their creation-myth - Malavay and Malakuratti - few
only are able to give a full account………… On the rocky ridges leading to these
northern slopes of the Kari Hill, are two rather insignificant holes in the ground,
just broad enough for a man to pass through, but not deep enough to give a real
shelter. It is round these holes that the Kadan creation-myth is centred by the
standards of our logic, these holes must have existed before the rest of the now
visible world had been created, according to the Kadan. It was the "Ocean in the
West which was rising and rising until it "had all the interior crevices of the earth
and came as high as the two holes, was the reason why two divine beings, Malavay
and Malakuratti, had to leave their customary abode below the ground and came
out of these two holes, to appear on the surface of the earth. They came naked, thus
as we, Kadar all had once been, and they came through these holes". It is therefore
that the holes, and the rocky place round them, is known as Karazhi Purapar a, - an
expression of the Kadan dialect which may best be rendered as Without-clothes-
(born) – rock. )
உத்துச் ச ோல்யயோப!