Is tamil derived from Sanskrit

[mahadevan]

Tamil and prakrits are natural languages that evolved over a huge period of time. Sanskrit on the other hand is a artificially created and perfected language. After Indus valley civilization there was an apparanet lack of a sophisticated language to convey the complex thoughts of humans in the northren part of india, so a group of people spend centuries to create a beautiful language called sanskrit. In doing that they borrowed heavily from the existing prakrits and already sophistacted tamil. In the begining thay called this language chandasa, even during buddha's time this language was called chandasa and still being perfected, when buddha was asked to use chandasa as a meduim for his philosophies he rejected and instead prefered the prakrits. Once that language was made perfect, a lot of existing indian litreature was translated into sanskrit. But since the language was made too perfect, it became too complex to be follwed in day to day life. It has been serving the limited purpose of liturgical needs in the Indian society. Since it has been associated with the religious purposes, it gained an aura of sacredness. That sacredness has been propgated such that the whole scenario of the genesis of the language is reversed, giving rise to stupid speculations like MST (mother sanskrit theory). So inconclusion forget tamil not even the prakrits came from sanskrit.