History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.125.6
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.125.6
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v6.c81.125.6
There is no sound reason to assume that ‘pūcu’ (to paint) existed thousands of years ago in Dravidian languages and was not a more recent acquisition, when the word pūjā can be traced a thousand years before any existing literary work in any Dravidian language.⁸⁶