Rajanarayanan in the Dravidian Aesthetic Tradition

Abstract

The tradition of Dravidian ideology encompasses a variety of material and historical implications. None of the literary and artistic activities emerge in isolation, but rather from the folds of history and social upheavals, and history has two sides. Which side we stand on has to do with our mental system and cultural understanding. The 2,000-year-old Tamil tradition has been influenced by various kinds of literature that support the foundations of Dravidian philosophy. Jain Buddhism, which was once very strong in the Tamil community, took materialism to the fore. They classified human beings on the basis of their actions. When we look closely at the lines such as ‘Ittar Periyor idathor izhikolathor (Those who helped others are great those who ignored others are inferior)," etc., they did not discriminate on the basis of birth but were defined on the basis of morality. The question of whether the concept of Dravidianism has reached the youth properly in today's time is very important. This is because there is an increasing tendency to project Dravidianism against Tamil nationalism. The Tamil tradition is the rational tradition, and the knowledge tradition of the Siddhas is presented as the Dravidian tradition. Therefore, Dravidianism should be matched with Tamil. The word Dravidian acts as a link to Tamil Nadu. The Dravidian will be the weapon to defeat the conspiracy to alienate the people who have accepted the dignity of the Tamil land. On that basis, this article attempts to link the aesthetic elements of Ki.Ra., which recorded the lives of the Telugu-speaking people, with the Dravidian elements.