BJP Future - 6

[Pandyan]

GS, I don't think Thiruvallulvar was a Jain. Dravidianists label all great tamils as jains or something else in their drive to strip tamils of any Hindu identity. They also claim Ilango Adigal was a Jain, but there are references in tamil texts that prove otherwise. As for non-veg, entire tamil pop (save brahmins and few upper caste) has always been non-veg, there is no use dissuading the practice.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->1. Tiruvalluvar also sings of those who nilamisai neetu vazhvar -
another concept alient to Jainism.
2. Tiruvalluvar holds the Brahmin as the gold standard the society
should emulate, and the possibility that a Brahmin might forget to recite
the Veda as the ultimate digression from dharma - something that does not
fit with Jainism.
3. Tiruvalluvar translates and paraphrases directly from the
Manusmriti and The Bhagavad Gita - neither Jaina texts. He does not cite
verses from any Jaina text.
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