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12. VAISHNAVISM
NAladijAr the second most important work with 400 verses, ascribed to Jaina authorship and with a noticeable slant to life-negation, had been translated into English by G.U. Pope almost a century ago. tirukkural and NAladijAr can be said to constitute the ethical core of the religious traditions of the Tamils. It is important to note here that varnAcirama dharma had not been brought into Tamil literature. Though the Tamils also developed an evil and pernicious caste system, in certain respects, quite distinct from the varnha system, in subsequent periods, that system had no sanction either in Tamil or in Sanskrit texts."
Evidently something strange was happening during this period. Some one has been deliberately deleting the documents with absolute details so that we have been left with no clue to who and what were the Kalabrahs. We have the following characteristics of the Kalabrah Kingdom
1. They were not enemical to Jains or Buddhists.
2. They clearly and actively supported the growth of intellectualism and literature.
3. They were certainly against the caste system of the Brahminic era.
4. They actively opposed the philosophy of svadharma promulgated in the celebrated Bhagavat Gita of Krishnites.
Instead they actively advocated the universal equality and the highest ethical standards against opportunistic philosophy which absolved lies and cheating for personal and social achievements of persons and communities. These are reflected in the literature of the people.
5. There is no mention of a group of people called Christians who certainly pervaded the chola, chera and pandya kingdoms during this period. Those references were totally blotted out.
When it came out of the Kalabhra Interregnum period it was the Pallavas who were ruling the Pandya and the Chola Kingdoms. We should be able to assume legitimately that the decimers of Kalabhras were indeed Pallavas.
decimers of Kalabhras were p.
were Pallavas
The decimer
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