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Dear All.,

Please accept my sincere apologies if I sounded personal.
That is absolutely not my intention.

In literary Tamil, "Natram" always means vasanai or good smell. Even now, for 
bad smell "dhur Natram" is very much in vogue. (in spoken tamil, we use natram 
as implying dhurnatram).

And diraviyam (also used in sanskrit, dravyam,
e.g homa dravyam etc..) - directly
means "porul" or "porul eettuthal" or simply earning. 
there is no reference to dowry in the vakhyam 
"thirai kadal odiyum thiraviyam thedu" - 
it only means that one has to earn, even if it means 
sailing on the oceans and going places.
(without questioning the practices of dowry in
Sanga Kala Ilakkiyam).

And Gopuram is always written with chinna "ra" and
not periya "rra". There is very little chance of 
maruvuthal here.

One place in arulicheyal, in thiruvaimozhi,
(10.9) Soozhvisumbani mugil - it occurs as follows:

"Kodi ani nedu madhill gopuram kuruginar,
Vadivudai Madhavan Vaikuntham pugave."

No doubt, back of Cow is sacred and holy.
It is only that it may not have any relevance in the 
meaning of Gopuram.

I am sure any knowledgeable Tamil scholar can throw
some light on this issue.

thanks
-arulmari.

--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:08:21 
From: Srinivasan Iyengar <sriniv1410@xxxxxxxxx>
To: arulmari@xxxxxxxxx, srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sriniv1410@xxxxxxxxx

>Dear Everyone,
>
>I do stand to explain. Firstly it is not wrong to say
>or use chinna 'rra' that since there has been several
>maruvals in Tamil from the original usages. 
>
>For eg Natham originally meant good smell
>
>Thiraikadal odiyum  Dhiraviyam thedu meant the dowry
>(Dhiraviyam) the groom had to give to the bride since
>the practise of the tamils yesteryears was that the
>groom gave the dowry to the bride to marry her.
>
>Also the backside of the cow is a holy place since
>that is where Lakshmi lives according to beliefs.
>
>I only can call the hasty remark abhattam a Abhattam.
>
>Thanks
>
>Srinivasan
>
>
>--- Srinivasa-Gopalan Sampathkumar
><arulmari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dear All.,
>> 
>> the explanation given by Sri Srinivasan Swami is 
>> wrong (abhattham).
>> 
>> In tamil the backside "puram" will be written with
>> periya "rra" and not chinna "ra" as it is written in
>> Gopuram. Hence, this cannot be the meaning.
>> 
>> It is very important to check the fundamental
>> spelling
>> differences in tamil script before passing on
>> meanings
>> (wrong meanings) to a large number of people in a
>> forum
>> like this. 
>> 
>> The unfortunate thing is that such things do get
>> propagated
>> and people accept it without questioning.
>> 
>> Let us not be responsible for the propagation of
>> wrong, absurd and flawed meanings.
>> 
>> If we dont know, then we dont know. that is better
>> than
>> giving wrong explanations.
>> 
>> thanks for your understanding.
>> 
>> -arulmari
>> 
>> 
>> --------- Original Message ---------
>> 
>> DATE: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:53:56
>> From: Srinivasan Iyengar <sriniv1410@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: sriniv1410@xxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> >Dear Patrons of this site,
>> >
>> >Namaskarams. I can explain a little about the word
>> >Gopuram in my sense of understanding. 
>> >
>> >Go is Cow. Puram is back side.
>> >
>> >The shape of the temple tower is like the cow
>> looked
>> >from the back side with ears standing up. Hence
>> >Gopuram.
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >Srinivasan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
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