மலேசியா முனைவர் கே.லோகநாதன் மறைந்த செய்தி
மலேசியா
முனைவர் கே.லோகநாதன் 18.04.2015 காலையில் மறைந்த செய்தி இணையத்தில் கண்டேன். அதிர்ச்சி
அடைந்தேன். சைவம் தொடர்பாகவும், சுமேரு தொல்தமிழ் தொடர்பாகவும் நிறைய ஆய்வுக்கட்டுரைகள்
எழுதியுள்ளார். தொல்தமிழ் பற்றிய அவரது ஆய்வுகள் பற்றி தெரிந்து கொள்ளவும், அதற்கு
உள்ள மறுப்புகள் பற்றி தெரிந்து கொள்ளவும் கீழ்வரும் கட்டுரை துணைபுரியலாம்.அவரது மறைவிற்கு
எனது ஆழ்ந்த வருத்தத்தை பதிவு செய்கிறேன்.
Dr K.Loganathan 15-8-12
The production of
Clyde’s video on Sumerian as CaGkam Tamil or more specifically the Tamil of the
First CaGkam to go along with the tradition of the sophisticated Academies in
Tamil literature, is certainly a momentous event that records a dramatic change
in the understanding of World History. The video can be seen and heard at the
address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ3_zCzupLM&list=UUryp_DYeagKtvL-pw1BpZeA&index=1&feature=plcp
I venture to
review this great video as a way of appreciating the efforts of Clyde and
expressing my profound thanks. I know Clyde has been reading my studies since
my first major publication “Sumerian: Tamil of the First CaGkam” in the Journal
of Tamil studies in the year 1975, a paper that I wrote when I was doing my
masters degree in the University of London. I used to frequent the library of
SAOS where one day I accidentally saw the Sumerian texts (Dumuzi’s Dream,
Suruppaks Moral Instructions etc) on reading some of which I realized
immediately that I was reading some kind of Tamil, certainly an archaic form.
Then I spend the whole of three month vocation reading many necessary treatises
and wrote that paper and which was published in the Journal of Tamil Studies,
where Dr S,V Subramaniam, then the Editor saw it fit for publication.
I knew it
was a major breakthrough in Dravidian studies but was very disappointed that it
did not catch the attention of the Tamil scholars who, I hoped would pursue it
further. But my expectations were not fulfilled and the paper went almost
unnoticed except for the Eelam scholar Dr A. Velu Pillai who also connected it
with the great research by Prof Sathasivam (whom I met in person in 1988 in
Kuala Lumpur) who also advocated the view that Sumerian is in fact Tamil. But I
now I realize that the paper had attracted the attention of Dr Clyde Winters
who also contributed many research papers to the Journal of Tamil Studies as
well as many other journals of universities in Tamil Nadu. I realize now that
Clyde had read that paper and absorbed the details and made it the base of many
of his later studies including the present video presentation.
For this is the
first point he makes in his video presentation: That Sumerian is the Tamil of
the First CaGkam and by which the Sumeriologists view that Sumerian is an
isolate language, long dead and gone is refuted. I am really glad to note that
Clyde saw how great a discovery this is and how important it is for
understanding or re-understanding World History. Sumerian is Tamil of a kind
and as Clyde remarks, to understand Sumerian it must be linked with the Tamil
language and culture that is very much alive to this day
Any way despite
the lack of appreciation of such discoveries by the Tamil scholars and
politicians I persisted in my studies of Sumerian texts that I collected when I
was in London during the years 1974-75 and later in 1988-89 . During this time
also developed in greater details my Process Grammar, a grammatical theory
based on Tolkaappiyam and which I developed as an alternative to Chomsky’s
Transformational Generative Grammar. This grammar also includes the Process
Calculus and which I developed as an alternative to the highly misleading
Predicate Calculus of Russel and Whitehead, the authors of Principia
Mathematica the basis of Logical Positivism of the West. All the articles I
published during this time are now available in the Cyber Space and those
interested can see them at:
http://www.ulakaththamizh.org/JOTSAArticle.aspx?id=51
The list of papers
also includes the now world famous “Sumerian: Tamil of the First CaGkam”
I must mention
that my studies in Process Grammar and the development of Process Calculus are
now being pursued further by Dr Sivakumar, a lecturer in the Universiti Sains
Malaysia and who has been a long time student of my studies in almost all
fields. I hope in the near future he will begin to write to our groups on how
he is developing further the essentials of Process Grammar that I developed in
the seventies and eighties.
Now I must mention
that Process Grammar is my first major contribution to Dravidian Studies where
I used the insights of Tolkaappiyar to develop it. Here I must mention that it
was my development of Process Grammar that served me later to develop various
branches of Evolutionary Linguistics where I also used the insights of
Aurobindo as well as PavaNar. These essays under the title Viri Linguistics Uri
Linguistics Veer Linguistics Uur Linguistics and so forth still remain sporadic
developed more in the contexts of many challenges to my claims by such great
scholars like BVK Sastry the great Turkish scholar Polat Kaya and so forth.
Now I am already
quite old (in the seventies) where my interests are more metaphysical, and
where I am preoccupied with writing the massive History of Dravidian
Philosophy, I am not sure I can get back to my earlier linguistic interests. I
will be happy if some young linguists would read these essays and come up with
a treatise outlining my ideas on Evolutionary Linguistics and which will be an
effective alternative to Constructive Historical Linguistics of the West and
which has helped many European scholars to sustain the lie that Sk is
Indo-European and not Dravidian.
My essays on Evolutionary Linguistics are available at:
https://sites.google.com/site/ulagansessays/evolutionary-linguistics
I think Clyde has not made a mention of this though he is very familiar with the controversies with BVK Sastry and Polat Kaya where he also has contributed substantially in favor of my claims.
Dr.K.Loganathan
http://heritagewiki.org/index.php?title=Review_of_Clyde%27s_Video_on_SumeruTamil
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