That is not what I asked.The Dravidians, Dalits and Untouchables have suffered grossly most in the Post-Vedic times. Their viewpoint needs to be appreciated. Please
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That is not what I asked.The Dravidians, Dalits and Untouchables have suffered grossly most in the Post-Vedic times. Their viewpoint needs to be appreciated. Please
Regards
I require from you an explanation of what is it that you quote here that that is anything different from what I have said in my previous post.Do Dravidians own Veda as their religious scripture?
"The early Dravidian religion constituted a non-Vedic form of Hinduism in that they were either historically or are at present Āgamic. The Agamas are non-vedic in origin [1] and have been dated either as post-vedic texts [2] or as pre-vedic compositions.[3]The Agamas are a collection of Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga.[4] The worship of tutelary deity, sacred flora and fauna in Hinduism is also recognized as a survival of the pre-Vedic Dravidian religion.[5]Dravidian linguistic influence on early Vedic religion is evident, many of these features are already present in the oldest known Indo-Aryan language, the language of the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), which also includes over a dozen words borrowed from Dravidian. The linguistic evidence for Dravidian impact grows increasingly strong as we move from the Samhitas down through the later Vedic works and into the classical post-Vedic literature.[6] This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[7][note 1] or synthesis[9] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans that went on to influence Indian civilization.[10][8][11][12]"
Dravidian folk religion - Wikipedia
False. The Dravidian religion has not been a distinctively different religion for at least 2600 years as Vedic and Agamic practices and scriptures have seamless intermingled together. Hinduism considers the Agamic literature as shruti as well as the Vedic ones. Atharveda contains explicit scripture on Siva, the primary form of God in Agama literature. Similarly the Agama-s acknowledge the Vedas explicitly. Your contention that somehow the Dravidian religion and culture has been suppressed has no support either in the Wikipedia article or in actual practice of Hinduism.So the Dravidians religion is distinctively different. Please