Vedic culture is otherwise known as Aryan culture, and Dravids were the first generation seers and sages who spread Aryan culture throughout the world.

Dravids and Languages

P N Oak (1917 - )

P N Oak is a controversial figure, and while The Bhaktivedantas do not subscribe to everything he has written, he has uncovered evidence that merits further investigation and research into the world's original Vedic civilization.

The language of the Vedas is Sanskrit, so called because of its divine perfection. Its other synonyms viz Sura-Bharati, Deva-Bhasha and Geervan-Bhasha all point to its divine origin.

Vedic Sanskrit is the basic ancestral language of the world, and not of India alone, because of its antiquity and also because the Vedas were bequeathed to mankind. There is also other comprehensive historical evidence to prove this.

All other languages, whether of the east or west, developed as regional "Prakrits". The very word "Prakrit" signifies a language "shaped out of" another (i.e. out of the divine Sanskrit). That is why all languages of the world can be traced to the language of the Vedas.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, therefore, rightly notices an affinity between the Rigved and Dravidian languages. The very root "Vid" is common to both Rigved and Dravid.

Sage Agasti (or whosoever else) and his group formed the first generation Dravids, i.e. seers and sages through whom the Vedas were bestowed on mankind by divinity not only in India but even in Europe. As proof one may cite the word "august" in European languages. August the European month, the title Augustus applied to Roman emperors and the Druids (priests) who dominated social life in ancient Europe. Druid is the European variation of the Sanskrit term Dravid. As an incidental clue one finds the Shiva samhita listed in the literature of the European Druids.

This disproves the fancied hostility between Aryans and Dravids. It must now be realized that Vedic culture is otherwise known as Aryan culture, and Dravids were the first generation seers and sages who spread Aryan culture throughout the world. Those two terms are, therefore, complementary and not mutually exclusive or antagonistic.

Tamil, Telugu, Kannaa and Malayalam form the four main Dravidian languages in India. In modern parlance the term Dravid connotes South India. The four languages, grouped as "Dravidian" because they pertain to the Dravid region, all differ in their scripts, phonology and grammar. Similar is the case with other regional groups too, such as North Indian, European and (so-called) Semitic languages. And yet they are all Prakrits (i.e. shaped out) of Sanskrit. It is currently mistakenly assumed that Prakrits preceded Sanskrit.

Thus each language bears some regional affinity to neighbouring languages on one hand and to its remote ancestor, Sanskrit, on the other. This applies to Tamil too. The phonology of the Tamil alphabet is the same as that of Sanskrit, while its theological, social and moral thought content is identical with Vedanta.

Wide ramification from a common origin is a common rule applicable to all aspects of human life, including linguistics. Like biological cells, the multiples, while bearing some similarity to the original, continue to diversify from generation to generation.

If therefore Tamil appears different, that is not from lack of affinity to Sanskrit but from its antiquity, its generation gap. The wider the diversity, the greater the time gap.

It should therefore be realized as a basic fact of every aspect of human civilization, including linguistics, that the Vedas and their language, Sanskrit, form the origin of all human knowledge, including speech. Consequently, Panini's Sanskrit grammar must be regarded as the grammar of all grammars.

This excerpt is taken from the chapter "The Lingual Theorem", in the 2003 edition of World Vedic Heritage (ISBN 81-88388-23-8, published by Hindi Sahitya Sadan, New Delhi.

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About the author: –

P N Oak (born at 9:54am on March 2, 1917 in Indore), having made some far-reaching discoveries in history, is the founder president of the Institute for Rewriting World History. His latest finding is that in pre-Christian times Vedic culture and Sanskrit language held full sway throughout the world.

P N Oak was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family in which his father talked to him only in Sanskrit, mother only in English, relations in Marathi and town-folk in Hindi. That gave him fluency in these four languages from childhood.

After obtaining his B.A. degree from Agra University and completing M.A., LL.B courses of the Bombay University, Oak worked for a year as tutor in English at the Fergusson College, Pune, and later having joined the army was posted to Singapore at the age of 24.

There, after the British surrender, Oak was one of the organizers of the Indian National Army, a director and commentator at the Free India Radio, Saigon, and later a co-worker of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

After the end of World War II, Oak hitch-hiked from Singapore to Calcutta across the border jungles of several countries.

From 1947 to 1974 his profession has been mainly journalism, having worked on the editorial staffs of the Hindustan Times and the Statesman, as a class 1 officer in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, and as editor in the American Embassy's information service, all in New Delhi.

Around 1959, Oak developed a curious new insight into history, which led him to some stunning discoveries as a result of his absorbing hobby of visiting historic sites. He then founded (June 14, 1964) the Institute for Rewriting Indian History and wrote several books.

Oak's historical acumen led him to discover further that even world history has gone wrong. His discoveries have therefore outgrown the name and scope of the Institute for Rewriting Indian History. Having discovered that from time immemorial up to the Mahabharat War Vedic culture and Sanskrit pervaded the whole world, Oak is keen to find a world Vedic Heritage University to educate the world in the primordial Vedic unity of all humanity. To that end he invites correspondence from all those willing to help.