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Anyone Know Tamil (language)?
« on: June 29, 2009, 05:46:57 AM »


The above photo was posted without explanation in another forum I frequent, and a few of us began trying to figure out what/ where it is.  The writing on the gate and wall are both in Tamil, used in southern India.

Anyone have any input?

(FWIW, the... seemingly ironic symbols are from the Bardo Thodol, the "Tibetan Book of the Dead.")
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Re: Anyone Know Tamil (language)?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 11:06:55 AM »
     No. I do know that the swastika is a common Hindu symbol (in current use) that substantially predates it's anti-semitic imagery.

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/200906241773/Hindu-homeowner-shocked-swastika-would-be-offensive.html
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Re: Anyone Know Tamil (language)?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2009, 12:41:51 PM »
Ananda Marga uses the swastika inside a 6 point star as a symbol
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