Trying to find a name for my kid, any websites or blogs that you guys know of where I can find old tamil names?

Ko'Sengan Pandiyan கோ செங்கன்‌ பாண்டியன் Concept art

I have been developing characters and environment arts for an AC game during the Sangam period. More to come.Ko'Sengan is the prince of the Keezhadi Kingdom ruled by the Pandiyas. A true leader of the people who engages with all sections of his citizens to solve their problems. Sardonic, mischievous yet a deadly master of swords and daggers, he is a prince like no other.

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For example, any English Speaker of today won't understand anything if sent 500-600 years back in time. Was wondering how would it go for Hindi.

Can a Normal Hindi Speaker (Pretending they don't know Sanskrit) understand pre-hindi languages like Prakrit, Apabhramsa or khadiboli? If yes, with how much struggle.

Any other insight about any regional languages are welcomed too. I read somewhere that a well versed Tamil person can understand Sangam period literature easily. What about other regional languages?

List of investment news in December 2021. Do not mistake this for investments in this month itself. They vary. Some invest now, others over a time period.

Danish Investment Fund invests $34 million in CleanMax

WardWizard lines up Rs 500 crore investment in Gujarat

Textile firm Sangam India to invest ₹1,521 crore in Rajasthan

CreditAccess Grameen to invest up to Rs 250 cr into subsidiary MMFL

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel has planned to expand the Hazira plant's to 18 million tonnes by investing ₹50,000 crore

Tabreed-IFC to invest $400 m in India’s cooling space

Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel’s Rs 1 lakh crore steel unit approved in Odisha’s Kendrapada

Olectra Greentech to set up India’s biggest electric bus factory with 10000 units capacity-Rs.600 crore +

Thomas Scott (India) to set up new manufacturing activities in Haryana - Rs.40-50 million

Simple Energy to invest Rs 2,500 crores to set up EV manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu

Hyundai India plans to invest ₹4,000 cr to rev up EV biz

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I have seen many topics about Tamil and Tamil Nadu in online circles which quote a lot of pseudo-history. I am against weaponizing ancient history for today's politics. However it done to incite conflict. For example, I had a conversation with this user which went a little serious and upon their insistence, I have made this post. Please do not harass the user I have tagged. He might have have believed the source to be accurate. But the scholars might have either made mistakes or even be biased. Some of them also enjoy political patronage. For example, in this post, I would have talked about how கார்த்திகை is a Sanskrit word. The person the tweet belongs to one of these pseudo-scholars who is well connected. People like him seek to divide us using our ignorance in the language. Even in this subreddit, I see words used like "Vadakkan" which are used in a negative sense. Some how, the academia has convinced us that our very own culture is alien to us and seek to portray the people we share a country with as our enemies. I am thinking upon making about a few topics that are usually debated about in this subreddit and its related subreddits, "How the idea of India is found in the Sangam literature" since some people here seem to have a conflict about the idea of India with respect to Tamil Nadu. Also, since many topics here appear about religion, with people insisting that ,during the Sangam period, Tamils had a different religion with respect to North India, I will write about the relationship between Muruga and Skanda with respect to Sangam literature, because I have seen it being discussed frequently here. If people want to argue, criticism is welcome. I also think this will be a way to encourage people of different viewpoints also read about Sangam literature just to debate. I look forward to the conversations that will be had in the subreddit.

THE LEGEND

According to Taittariya Samhita, Sati, wife of Shiva, self-immolated to protest against her father(Daksha) and uphold the honour of her husband.

There are many arguments about the origin of the Hindu practice, sati, with conflicting claims such as there is no evidence of sati in Hindu sacred texts, that it was a 'minor practice that emerged in a few parts of India, in medieval times', or how sati as a practice was mentioned in Rigveda and Atharvaveda. In this write-up, I'll attempt to provide a brief tracing of this practice in Indian history which should answer these claims.

SATI IN VEDAS

Quoting Romila Thapar from Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300

>> Curiously, in contrast to the presence of Harappan figurines, some of which may have represented deities, the Vedic texts did not attribute much power to their goddesses, who remained figures in the wings. It is thought that a widow had to perform a symbolic self-immolation at the death of her husband and this may have been a sign of status. In later centuries this was cited as the origin of the practice of becoming a sati/suttee, with a small emendation of the text, which made it possible to insist that a widow actually burn herself on her husband's funeral pyre. That the ritual was symbolic in the early period seems evident from the remarriage of widows, generally to the husband's brother - a custom referred to as niyoga or levirate.

The hymns from Rigveda (translations from Jamison) attesting to the fact that the practice was indeed meant to be symbolic and no actual sacrifice was involved are as follows:

RV: 10.18.7 These women here, non-widows with good husbands-let them, with fresh butter as ointment, approach together. Without tears, without afflictions, well-jeweled, let the wives first mount the womb.

RV: 10.18.8 "Arise women, to the world of the living. You lie beside him whose life is gone. Come here! You have come into existence now as a wife of a husband who has grasped your hand and wishes to have you."

Similar hymns from Atharvaveda are as follows:

AV: 18.3.1 This woman have chosen her husband’s world earlier. Today she is sitting besides your dead body. Now bestow upon her both wealth and offspring for rest of her life to continue her afterlife in this world.

This aforementioned speaks about continuation of worldly affairs by women in THIS world after her husband’s death, 'afterlife in this world' being the keywords.

AV: 18.3.2 *

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

This is an extract from the above mentioned book, in the book it also says that sangam age was a casteless society with the arrival of Brahmins they brought caste with them. Is it true?

>The advent of the Aryan immigrants brought about other significant social changes as well. There was a change in the dietary habits of the people. **The use of beef and liquor which was common even among the Brahmins in the early Sangam age now came to be looked upon as taboo. Those who used beef had now some social stigma attached to their class. The continued use of beef by the Panas was perhaps one of the factors which brought about the decline in their social status.**The introduction of the caste system also brought about a decline in the level of general literacy. The members of the fourth caste, viz., the Sudras were denied the right to education and subjected to other social disabilities as well. The social status of a person came to be determined on the basis of the occupation which he followed. Dignity of labour no longer commanded recognition. Those who were engaged in occupations involving physical exertion were relegated to the lowest strata of society and came to be looked upon as low castes. Side by side with the social degradation of the Panas, the Parayas and other respectable classes of earlier days, the status of women also underwent a change for the worse. Female education was neglected. Child marriage took the place of adult marriage and women were compelled to take to family life and neglect intellectual and artistic pursuits at a very early age. Women no longer enjoyed the social freedom and equality of earlier days. The life of the widows was a hard one. Thus the immediate impact of the Aryan immigration was a decline in the status of the toiling classes and women both of whom had enjoyed a superior social status in the early Sangam age.

Context : I've only read history from NCERT's, of the Mauryans, the Gupta's ,sultanate to Mughals & then EIC..they never provided me much of Kerala history, recently got an idea to read about our common history.

The first book i got recommended was Kerala charitham, since i wasn't that good at reading malayalam i tried to look up for another books & ended up with this. While reading it, i stumbled upon such extracts, i was under assumption that caste existed since later vedic period (learned from ncert). It seems that wasn't the case in Dravidian States. So I got in a bit of conflicting idea'

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

A brief walkthrough of Indian political history, focusing on the actually important things rather than just the stuff there are more tertiary sources on/that historians care more about.

Table of Contents

1. Prologue: the thousand-year recession
2. Early Iron Age (1200 BC – 750 BC)
3. Middle Iron Age (750 BC – 493 BC)
4. Late Iron Age (492 BC – 323 BC)
5. Classical Age: First Golden Age (322 BC – 269 BC)
6. Classical Age: Civil War period (268 BC – 181 BC)
7. Classical Age: Invasions period (180 BC – 249 AD)
8. Classical Age: Second Golden Age (250 – 543)
9. Classical Age: Intermediary period (544 – 749)
10. Classical Age: Third Golden Age (750 – 1194)
11. Dark Ages: Muslim period (1195 – 1669)
12. Dark Ages: Reconquest period (1670 – 1756)

Prologue: the thousand-year recession

The political system of Bronze Age India was probably a plutocracy.

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In its peak, the Indus Valley civilization was the source of various technological innovations particularly in the fields of agriculture, water management, infrastructure and measurement. As the Indus Valley script remains undeciphered and very little of its writing remains, it is harder to comment on its academic achievements, most of these are first known from Mesopotamia (Egypt is a somewhat overrated Bronze Age civilization – it showed very little urbanization and was also a late adopter of the wheel; it just has an impressive archaeological record because of its palace economy).

In 1900 BC, a global depression struck. Indian cities crumbled; Near Eastern cities turned into stagnant palace economies; almost no inventions date to this period.

And then in 1200 BC, civilization collapsed.

It was the most mysterious event: Cities throughout the world burned and perished, literacy vanished, disease and local violence became widespread – civilization, from Greece to Gujarat, just collapsed.

Many historians posit pseudo-explanations for the Late Bronze Age collapse, like climate change, or “General Systems Collapse”, but none of these “explanations” are really good as scientific theories. Folks of the time were as confused by the event as we are – a letter from the Syrian king Ammurapi to the king of Cyprus reads:

>My father, behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

It was about a weak back.

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!