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LOMMLDMWWILD – 31
Now, either in the north or in the south no non-brahmin ventures to call himself a God except those of the priestly class who style themselves Brahmins or Gods. With this they are not content but choose to call all the non-brahmins by the name of 'Sudras' which term means in Sanscrit the children of the concubines or slaves. But, in point of fact, it is the Brahmins who do all sorts of menial work under the Tamilian landlords, and rich Tamil merchants and heads of the Mutts, while the poor Tamils are honest labourers in the fields, are artisans and weavers. Further, the Brahmins are, as pointed out before, not at all the Aryans nor the Tamilians but are the descendants who came from the mixture of the two. Besides calling themselves the Gods on earth and treating all others as Sudras, or slaves, the Brahmins have adopted Sanscrit as their written language with the motive of establishing their supernatural claims in the treatises which they themselves created in it but attributed their origin to the Supreme Being itself.
And in order to bring all the Tamilians under complete control, they kept them in gross ignorance of Sanscrit with the threat that the tongue of those who, in breach of the law, learn it would be cut off, into the ears of those who hear it molten lead would be poured and so on. Though the kings in the north and the south, belonging as they did and even now do to the Tamilian stock, were very hospitable to strangers and treated the Brahmins with respect and reverence, yet they never adopted the unjust laws fabricated by the Brahmins and passed off in the name of Manu the original Tamilian law-giver. Administration of justice seems to have been carried on not with any caste consideration as is laid down in the so-called Manusmriti, but with a broad outlook on the actions of man as they came to affect the welfare of the society to which he belonged. This broad-minded administration of ancient Indian kings accords well with the precepts of St. Thiruvalluvar's Sacred Kural rather than with the cruel and nunatural laws of the Manusmriti.
Now, seeing their failure to bring the kings under their baneful influence so as to make their code of laws the chief and infallible guide to their administrative functions, they sought to revive the
