When was the term "Dravida" first used and what is the context with which it was presented?
score:2
Accepted answer
Despite what is claimed in wikipedia (see Rajib's comment), actually, drāviḍa – occurs already in the Mahabharata, as is mentioned by Turner:
6632 *drāmiḍa - , dramiḍa -- , drāviḍa -- MBh., draviḍa -- m. Mn. ʻ name of a people, Dravidian ʼ. [EWA ii 73] Pk. damila -- , daviḍa -- , davila -- m.; OSi. demeḷ ʻ Tamil ʼ, Si. demaḷā.
http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?p.2:14.soas
More post
- 📝 Can anyone identify this warship?
- 📝 Who revoked their signatures from the union agreement at the Council of Florence?
- 📝 What was the origin of the roles of "lieutenant" officers?
- 📝 Why didn't Hitler invade Middle East for resources first before invading Soviet Union?
- 📝 Is there evidence to suggest the "war on drugs" was a cover for class warfare?
- 📝 Identification of Seaplane Type
- 📝 Did the US wage war against the Ottoman Empire in 1917?
- 📝 What is the royal cypher printed on the UK budget box?
- 📝 Are the Swiss flag and the flag/coat of arms of Piedmont related?
- 📝 Most fought over piece of land?
- 📝 Did teenage Sultan Osman II use people as targets?
- 📝 What is the meaning of a glove on the tail of monsters in illuminated manuscripts?
- 📝 Has the US Congress's power to declare war been rendered superfluous by recent conflicts?
- 📝 To what extent did Native American cultures develop metalworking for tools and weapons?
- 📝 Did West Pakistan not factor in Indian miltary intervention when it cracked down on East Pakistan in 1971?
- 📝 Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force (U.S. Marine Corps)?
- 📝 Did the Reformation have any impact in Orthodox countries?
- 📝 Is there historical evidence that Emperor Ashoka converted to Buddhism?
- 📝 How do historians know the details of a seemingly private event?
- 📝 Why did post-Roman rulers abandon tax-paid army?
- 📝 Identifying this uniform, possibly German or Polish
- 📝 Why weren't the New Territories ceded to the British instead of leased in 1898?
- 📝 Where does the name of the country "Belarus" come from?
- 📝 What is the source for the Baal Shem Tov's signature?
- 📝 Was Charles V of France opposed to commoners learning?
- 📝 Was the money requested by the French for the XYZ affair really a bribe?
- 📝 Was Robert McNamara present at Los Alamos, 1945?
- 📝 How long did it take approximately for a person to travel from Basel to Hanover (1753) by any means of transport?
- 📝 Which technologies/commodities were available during the 30s on USA?
- 📝 What was the main purpose in Japan trying to capture the Dutch East Indies oil fields intact?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 When was the term "Dravida" first used and what is the context with which it was presented?
- 📝 When and where was the term "nigra" used and what was its relation to "nigger"?
- 📝 When was the term for WW2 first used and was it more popular in, say, US before Europe?
- 📝 When was King John of England given the name 'Dollheart', and who first used it?
- 📝 When the term "president" was used the first time?
- 📝 When, and where, was the word 'Anglican' first used in the context of the Protestant Church of England?
- 📝 What / When was the first use of concentration camps in history?
- 📝 What was used instead of toilet paper in the US and the UK prior to 1900?
- 📝 When and how did the term "Nazi" start replacing the term "Germans" in the context of WW2?
- 📝 When was "diablo" first used to refer to the Devil?
- 📝 When and where was the first time moveable bridge?
- 📝 When was the concept of the "border wall" between the United States and Mexico first proposed?
- 📝 When was the testudo / tortoise formation first used by the Romans?
- 📝 What did the Baltic Fleet do in Reval in 1904 and when was it there?
- 📝 When and what was the maximum extent of Nationalist China?
- 📝 What was the first instance of native Americans using gunpowder weapons in battle and did they ever make their own powder?
- 📝 What was the first confirmed use of black powder to blow stuff up in war (in China and in Europe)?
- 📝 When and where was the first naval gunnery school/college established?
- 📝 When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
- 📝 When was the White Feather first used as a symbol of cowardice?
- 📝 Who conducted the first "straw poll" in U.S. election politics, and when was it conducted?
- 📝 What was wrong with carrying a bag on one's back in a town in the USA in the first decades of the 1900?
- 📝 How was the term "Mandate of Heaven" used during the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties?
- 📝 What is the source for the Arabic name of the penguin and when it is first used?
- 📝 What was the first printed material owned and kept in Kamchatka?
- 📝 When was the term 'finishing school' first used?
- 📝 How many men were lost on the USAT Arcata and was she loaded with troops when she was hit?
- 📝 When was the first time that concrete was used in Indian Subcontinent?
- 📝 What was up with "Alicorn" in the 1920's and 30's
- 📝 What was the first recorded reference to the fact that the sun rises and sets at different times across the Earth?