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**Ifroham4** · 05-01-2007, 12:02 AM

Why Every Authority agrees that what is referred is Sanskrit Vedas

Correction: Why Every Authority I read agrees that what is referred is Sanskrit Vedas. Every - exaggeration!

It is usual for one authority to just blindly follow an earlier authority. If you bring them to Police for interrogation, you will be surprised at the revelations from the police statements.(Of course, these matters are not criminal and such investigations are not possible). Besides, authors normally do not decide every point they touch upon. This should be evident to you from their bibliography appended at the end of their books. For many of them, questions such as whether naanmarai refers to this or that was not an issue or question they specifically selected for their own research and decision!! If it were a PhD thesis, the candidate is not going to get his degree based on what he says about this issue, because his topic is different. All of us tend to treat matters in this manner.
Many scholars followed Maraimalai Adigal, a pioneer in this kind of literary research. Others follow his Tamiz student, the advocate turned professor Vaiyapuri. The master and student differed in their views on dates and chronology. I will stop here for the moment.

Do not believe in international scholars too much. They made a mess of the WMD question in Iraq and all of them are sky level scholars, aren't they?

05-01-2007, 12:02 AM	#39
Ifroham4 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,196 Senior Member	Why Every Authority agrees that what is referred is Sanskrit Vedas Correction: Why Every Authority I read agrees that what is referred is Sanskrit Vedas. Every - exaggeration! It is usual for one authority to just blindly follow an earlier authority. If you bring them to Police for interrogation, you will be surprised at the revelations from the police statements.(Of course, these matters are not criminal and such investigations are not possible). Besides, authors normally do not decide every point they touch upon. This should be evident to you from their bibliography appended at the end of their books. For many of them, questions such as whether naanmarai refers to this or that was not an issue or question they specifically selected for their own research and decision!! If it were a PhD thesis, the candidate is not going to get his degree based on what he says about this issue, because his topic is different. All of us tend to treat matters in this manner. Many scholars followed Maraimalai Adigal, a pioneer in this kind of literary research. Others follow his Tamiz student, the advocate turned professor Vaiyapuri. The master and student differed in their views on dates and chronology. I will stop here for the moment. Do not believe in international scholars too much. They made a mess of the WMD question in Iraq and all of them are sky level scholars, aren't they?
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