| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The Modern World |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE ARYAN-DRAVIDIAN DIVIDE | |
Aryan and Dravidian Languages The Indo-European languages and the Dravidian do have important differences. Their ways of developing words and grammar and different. However, it is a misnomer to call all Indo-European languages Aryan. The Sanskrit term Aryan would not apply to European languages, which are materialistic in orientation, because Aryan in Sanskrit means spiritual. When the term Aryan is used as indicating certain languages, the term is being used in a Western or European sense that we should remember is quite apart from its traditional Sanskrit meaning, and implies a racial bias that the Sanskrit term does not have. We can speak of Indo-European and Dravidian languages, but this does not necessarily mean that Aryan and Dravidian must differ in culture, race or religion. The Hungarians and Finns of Europe are of a different language group than the other Europeans, but we do not speak of them as of a Finnish race, or the Finns as being non-Europeans, not do we consider that their religious beliefs must therefore by unrelated to those of the rest of Europe.
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