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... Sanskrit or Prakrit - Tamil.3 The only exception to this might be the medieval glossaries which often used Sanskrit to explicate the ' hard words ' in the manipravala Vaisnava commentaries . Nor were Tamil grammars written in Sanskrit ...
... Sanskrit or Prakrit - Tamil.3 The only exception to this might be the medieval glossaries which often used Sanskrit to explicate the ' hard words ' in the manipravala Vaisnava commentaries . Nor were Tamil grammars written in Sanskrit ...
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... Sanskrit did appear and unassimilated words began to flood literary Tamil ; eventually a hybrid idiom ( manipravalam ) , mixing Sanskrit and Tamil words , and Sanskrit terms with Tamil inflections , was devised primarily for use among ...
... Sanskrit did appear and unassimilated words began to flood literary Tamil ; eventually a hybrid idiom ( manipravalam ) , mixing Sanskrit and Tamil words , and Sanskrit terms with Tamil inflections , was devised primarily for use among ...
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... Sanskrit . Acknowledging that he intended to follow Beschi's lead in revitalising Tamil , Ellis also equated purity with an absence of Sanskrit influence : commenting on a late medieval Tamil poem , Ellis wrote that ' the language is ...
... Sanskrit . Acknowledging that he intended to follow Beschi's lead in revitalising Tamil , Ellis also equated purity with an absence of Sanskrit influence : commenting on a late medieval Tamil poem , Ellis wrote that ' the language is ...
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