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Re: A Tamil equivalent for the word Bhakti

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lsrinivas • July 7, 2002 


--- In bhakti-list@y..., jasn sn  wrote:

>The word /pakti is not a proper /tamiz word. Poets
>like /tAyumAvar have not
>used it. 

'patti' and 'pattar' are old words used repeatedly by the Azvars. In 
addition to the many references Ms Saranathan has given, perumAL 
tirumozi may also be cited here:

manniya taNcAral vaTa vEGkaTattAntan
ponniyalum cEvaTikaL kANpAn purintiRaiJci
konnavilum kUrvEl kulacEkaran conna
panniyanUl tamiznUL pAGkAya pattarkaLE.
                                (perumAL tirumozi 4.11)

Kamparamayanam (as does villibharatam) also has many references 
to 'patti' and 'pattar'. Hence it is not clear the basis on which a 
statement like the one quoted above has been made.

Hope this helps,

Lakshmi Srinivas


PS:  Although this is scarcely the place to discuss these references, 
I just include them here for completeness i.e., Campantar, Appar and 
Sundarar's tevaram verses are replete with references to 'patti' 
and 'pattar' as does tirumantiram of tirumular. 

References for 'patti':

tevaram: 3.98.10, 5.97.4, 1.91.1, 1.93.2, 3.51.2, 2.66.3, 3.119.2, 
7.43.9, 2.59.7, 3.120.7, 4.23.1, 4.64.9
tirumantiram: 347.4, 893.3, 2890.2, 1639.2, 2069.1, 2628.4, 2668.4, 
3104.1

References for 'pattar':

tevaram: 1.56.11, 1.96.4, 2.28.10 etc etc 
tirumantiram: 1446.1, 2623.4, 2626.3 etc etc

I stop here being increasingly apprehensive of carpal tunnel 
syndrome :-)  



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