04-28-2007, 12:42 PM
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The idiot don't even know that at the time of the Mauryan empire there was no full fledged Telugu yet, the first full fledged Telugu inscription is from the Renati Cholas about 6th century, plus even the earliest Sangam literature does have some Sanskrit influence, so how could this idiot claim that they were "rivals", half baked scholarship is more dangerous than full fledged ignorance as this one amply demonstrates.
Plus a considerable part of Telugu vocabulary is derived from Sanskrit, this process accelerated under the Vijayanagara empire, so much so that in time most of the Sanskrit derived words came to be considered as part of pure Telugu.
The idiot don't even know that at the time of the Mauryan empire there was no full fledged Telugu yet, the first full fledged Telugu inscription is from the Renati Cholas about 6th century, plus even the earliest Sangam literature does have some Sanskrit influence, so how could this idiot claim that they were "rivals", half baked scholarship is more dangerous than full fledged ignorance as this one amply demonstrates.
Plus a considerable part of Telugu vocabulary is derived from Sanskrit, this process accelerated under the Vijayanagara empire, so much so that in time most of the Sanskrit derived words came to be considered as part of pure Telugu.