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Dear Sri TCA Venkatesan:

Your position is quite understandable and
not altogether unexpected. But, I think 
claims of insertion in 3000 padi, etc. can 
be viewed as motivated.

Let us just stick to facts. It is a fact 
that recognized and traditional Vadakalai 
vidwans unanimously affirm the authenticity 
of the 3000 padi pramANam that was provided 
in support of Swami Sri Pillai Lokacharya's 
authorship of the Thaniyan. I know Thenkalais 
do not accept this, but at least among 
Vadakalai vidwans there is unanimity about 
this. It is in this sense that I enquired 
whether there was unanimity among Thenkalai 
vidwans about Swami Sri Desikan's authorship 
of the referred Pancasat. I have now received 
private e-mails indicating that this is not so. 
This claim is not universally accepted by all 
the Thenkalai vidwans. Particularly, it has 
not been accepted by a noted Thenkalai vidwan 
who is well known for grantha publications.

IMHO, each side should respect the other's
considered opinions in these matters, and,
each side should also admit that their
view in these matters is just their position
and the other side may not accept it. They 
must not then try to "prove" to the other 
side why their view is more authentic, etc. 
What would be the point of that? All the 
proofs have been offerred and countered a 
million times over. Neither side is going 
to be persuaded by the other side. The best 
thing for us to do is to live and let live. 
The two kalais have much in common, but we 
cannot start to celebrate this until we can 
respect our differences and accept them as 
they are. If we try to out do each other 
(e.g. my acharya is better than yours), or 
try to deny the legitimacy of the other side 
(e.g. your acharya actually belongs to my 
sampradayam, your sampradayam did not even
exit more then xxx years ago), we have a 
bright future in acrimony.

-- dileepan





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