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- From: subbu@lynx.com (K. K. Subramaniam)
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- Subject: Re: buddhists etc.
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:53:16 GMT
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- vallath@vishnu.labs.tek.com (Vallath Nandakumar) speculates that:
- >Kannagi's story (Shilappadikaaram) was Ilango-v-Adigal, a
- >Jain, and Ilango
- >could refer to Ilanka, the Tamil (and probably old Malayalam)
- >way of saying Lanka. And Buddhism was (and still is) popular
- >in Sri Lanka.
- >
- The poets name is iLango-adigal, where iLango (iLam - young, ko - king)
- means a prince. It could be a reference to Prince Gautama, who later became
- Buddha. The name just means a devotee of iLango. The tamil for Sri Lanka
- is ilangai (note 'l' and not 'L').
-
- my 2c worth,
- subbu
-