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Ibid., p. 93.
Ibid., p. 97.
Ibid.
Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus,
Paladin, London, 1970.
Ibid., p. 194.
Some 2000 years ago, the ancient
Tamils began to employ, from their own language, the work Ar'am
as an equivalent of Dharma in Sanskrit. This word meant virtue
in general. Indeed, Dharma itself would appear to be
connected with an old Tamil world, ar'a, which means path
or way. The concept of Dharma Yeh to the Chinese and
Logos and Nous to the Greek. The Mahabharata, considered to be
one of India's greatest literary works, is replete with the
Dharma concept. Both Buddhism and Jainism fall within the orbit
of Dharma. The word Arya was added the Dharma, when it came to
be interpreted in non-ethnic terms to mean noble or superior.
See India: A Polyglot Nation and its Linguistic Problems
vis-a-vis National Integration, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Research
Centre, Bombay, 1973, pp.23-26.
Ibid. pp.31-32.
Ibid.
Amrit Rai, A Divided House: The
Origin and Development of Hindi/Hindavi, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 1984, pp.54-55.
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