Paraiyar and Brahmin connection

Tun Maharezza II

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All the Paraiyars have Y-chromosome haplogroup, Haplogroup G, specifically Haplogroup G2a3b1 (Y-DNA). This shows the Paraiyar males are Caucasians. This Haplogroup G2a3b1 is also found in 10% of Iyer and 13% o...f Iyengar Brahmins.[13][14] The Aryan Brahmins have Haplogroup R1a & Haplogroup R2.[13][14]

In a note on the Paraiyans of the Trichinopoly district, Mr. F. R. Hemingway writes as follows.[15

All the Paraiyars have Y-chromosome haplogroup, Haplogroup G, specifically Haplogroup G2a3b1 (Y-DNA). This shows the Paraiyar males are Caucasians.

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--> klu kita bca sejarah pariah ini...kita dpt lihat..mereka adalah bangsa yg agung 1 ketika dulu...sebelum dikastakan..

There are certain privileges possessed by Paraiyans, which they could never have gained for themselves from orthodox Hinduism. They seem to be survivals of a past, in which Paraiyans held a much higher position than they do now. 

It is noted by Mr. M. J. Walhouse that "in the great festival of Siva at Trivalur in Tanjore the headman of the Paraiyars is mounted on the elephant with the god, and carries his chauri (yak-tail fly fan). 

In Madras, at the annual festival of Egatta, the goddess of the Black, f now George, Town, when a tali is tied round the neck of the idol in the name of the entire community, a Paraiyan is chosen to represent the bridegroom.[6]

At the census, 1891, 348 sub-divisions were returned, of which the following were strongest in point of numbers : Amma found chiefly in Tanjore and Madura; Katti in Salem and Trichinopoly; Kizhakkatti (eastern)in Salem; Koliyan(weavers)in Chingleput,Tanjore and Trichinopoly; Konga in Salem; Korava in Coimbatore; Kottai (fort) in South Arcot; Morasu (drum) in Salem ; Mottai in Madura ;Pacchai(green) in Coimbatore; Samban in South Arcot; Sangidum (sanku, conch, or chank shell) in Coimbatore; Sozhia (natives of the Sozha or Chola country) in Tanjore and Madura; Tangalan in North and South Arcot, Chingleput, Salem, and Trichinopoly; and Valangamattu in South Arcot.

The members of the various sub-divisions do not intermarry. 

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They have a very exalted account of their lineage, saying that they are descended from the Brahman priest SalaSambavan, who was employed in a Siva temple to worship the god with offerings of beef, but who incurred the anger of the god by one day concealing a portion of the meat, to give it to his pregnant wife, and was therefore turned into a Paraiyan.

The god appointed his brother to do duty instead of him, and the Paraiyans say that Brahman priests are their cousins. For this reason they wear a sacred thread at their marriages and funerals.At the festival of the village goddesses, they repeat an extravagant praise of their caste, which runs as follows.

'The Paraiyans were the first creation, the first who wore

the sacred thread, the uppermost in the social scale, the

differentiators of castes, the winners of laurels. They

have been seated on the white elephant, the Vira

Sambavans who beat the victorious drum.'

It is a curious fact that, at the feast of the village goddess, a Paraiyan is honoured by being invested with a sacred thread for the occasion by the pujari (priest) of the temple, by having a turmeric thread tied to his wrists, and being allowed to head the procession. This, the Paraiyans say, is owing to their exalted origin.

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