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Originally Posted by aravindhan
You can also use "punarcchi" (and related words such as "punartal") in non-grammatical contexts, to refer to meeting or union. In ancient Tamil prosody, for example, one of the poetical divisions which dealt with one lover longing for the other and grieving over their separation was called புணராவிரக்கம் (punaravirakkam).

I think, virakkam, is a Samskritham word again, which is "Viraham". I am sure there shd be a Thamizh word for this too...

I have veryu very very poor knowledge about Thamizh literature and grammer. Whaterver, said and argued, after seeing the available quotes from Literature, I feel this, that in ancient days, our ancestors didn't hesitate to use other language's words and they meant no superioarity or inferiority. I think, only in the middle ages, due to some mal-elements, unncessary politcs were created and in resolving this politics, we hav lost many valuable things.... I totally agree with you. But since the other group started derogating our language comparing with a long dead language, we are forced to defend. The polemics were started by sanskritists a long time back and they went to the level of saying that tamil is a barbarian language.

For the viraham/ virakkam - it is not virakkam, it is irakkam, which transforms as virakkam following tamil morphology. I understand it is difficult for someone to trace the origin when both these languages have so many words in common. That is the reason I asked for someone to explain sanskrit morphology. Both sanskrit and tamil are unique in a way that they follow a strict morphology. Let us wait till someone explains it for sanskrit.



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