On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are no prerequisites to discussion. Ideological purity just means end >> up only talking to yourself. > > Precisely because I agree with John, I'm just surprised that he is > responding! One should just "siri" (laugh) and let go this thread. > > siRI(respect)ramaNasarmA. > > :D > >
Despite Srivas' claims, Tamil literature uses sirI for Sanskrit Sri. "ciriitaran" is what is seen in 4000 Divyaprpandham etc., siRi, OTOH, seems to be a recent phenomenon of 20th century Sri Lanka. siri (note small r instead of big R) is historically more ancient Tamilization of Sanskrit conjunct shrii. N. Ganesan
