ಗೊಗ್ಗಯ್ಯರು ಒಂದು ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯದವರು. ಭಿಕ್ಷೆ ಬೇಡುವ ತಿರುಕರಲ್ಲ.

ಗೊಗ್ಗಯ್ಯರು ಒಂದು ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯದವರು. ಭಿಕ್ಷೆ ಬೇಡುವ ತಿರುಕರಲ್ಲ. ಇದು ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಆಸ್ತಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಎಲ್ಲ ಇದೆ ಆದರೆ ವರ್ಷದ ಕೆಲಕಾಲ ಇದನ್ನು ದೇವರ ಸೇವೆ ಎನ್ನುವ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಮಾಡುವವರು. ಆದರೆ ಯಾವುದನ್ನೇ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯವನ್ನು ಮುನ್ನೆಡೆಸಲು ಹಣಬೇಕು. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಕೊಡುವುದು ಕಾಣಿಕೆ ದಕ್ಷಿಣೆಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚಾರಿಗಳು ವಿದ್ಯಾಭ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಭಿಕ್ಷೆಬೇಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಇದು ಸಮಾಜ ಕೆಲವು ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಬೆಂಬಲ ಕೊಡುವ ರೀತಿಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಗೊಗ್ಗಯ್ಯರು ಇದು ಸೇವೆಯೆಂದು ಮಾಡುವವರು. ಇದು ಒಂದು ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ ಇದನ್ನು ನಾವು ಅರ್ಥಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.  ಇಂದು ಜಾನಪದ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುವ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ನಮ್ಮ ಮೂಲ ಶುದ್ಧ ಭಾರತೀಯ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅಂಗ. ಅವನ್ನು ಪೋಕ್ ಅಥವಾ ಜಾನಪದ ಎಂದು ಅವಹೇಳನಕಾರಿಯಾಗಿ ಆಂಗ್ಲರು ಕರೆದರು. ಅವೇ ನಮ್ಮ ಮೂಲ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಶೈಲಿ/ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ.  ಕಪ್ಪೆ ಮದುವೆ, ಗಾಳಿ ಮಾರ್ಯೇರು, ಡೊಂಬರಾಟದವರು, ಹಾವಾಡಿಗರು, ಸುಗ್ಗಿಕುಣಿತ, ಕೋಲಾಟ, ಡೊಳ್ಳು, ಜೋಗೀ ಆಟ ಹೀಗೆ ಅನೇಕ ಪದ್ಧತಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅಮೂಲ್ಯವಾದ ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಚಾರಗಳಿವೆ. ಅವುಗಳ ದಾಖಲೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅದನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವವರ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಿಂದ ಅದೇನು ಎಂಬುದರ ಅರ್ಥೈಸುವಿಕೆ ಆಗಬೇಕು.

ಇವರ ಹಿಂದೆ ಶೈವಮತದ ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಗುಟ್ಟಿರಬಹುದೆ?

Yakshagana Mundasa(Head Gear) - Demo by Ganapathi Bhagavat

It is a tradition to wear something on the head at important occasions. For a wedding, for welcoming guests or during sales and purchase. The music and dance performers should also wear headgear. This tradition is still alive in the villages. It is mandatory for Yakshagana performances. It does not look like there was one particular style long ago. My grandfather who was a traditionally learned Bhagavatha, would just wrap a shawl around his head. But now a certain style has become prelevant. I had the fortune of visiting one of the gretest yakshagana singers of our time: Bhagavatha Vidwan Ganapathi Bhat at his home in near Kundapura, Karnataka. He showed us the common way of wrapping headgear. Please watch and learn.

South Indian Languages are From Sanskrit? - Book Review - Culture and Tongues of South India

I have never believed the broad assertion by some traditional authors and speakers that Sanskrit is the source of all Indian languages. Because I have a basic working knowledge of Sanskrit and very good understanding of Kannada, which is considered a Dravidian language, I have always felt that these languages are very different. Sanskrit is considered today as belonging to Indo-Aryan family of languages. Any similarity to Sanskrit, I explained away as an influence. This makes sense until we have doubt in very category these languages belong to.

All of us who studied some Sanskrit and even those who are familiar know the word arya does not refer to a community at all. There is no community by the name of dravida either! Then where do these names for language categories come from? I do not know. But when we start understanding the roots of several words, what is startling is, they do seem to originate in Sanskrit. Are these categories of languages correct then? I can not say.

I believed until recently that Kannada had nothing to do with Samskrutam. I defended this view for years. But as my understanding of Kannada and Samskrutam both increased, I started encountering research that showed both languages are related. Such understanding requires a very advanced understanding of languages hard even for native speakers unless they are native to both languages. It is not clear if the languages were related to pre Vedic period but the alpha-syllabic system is common. Grammar at a higher level is similar. Words are clearly common in most cases. This and research by others leads me to think the western classification of Dravidian languages is superficial. There is a chance that Samskrutam and Kannada etc are related very intimately. We do not know the exact nature of that relation. But it is likely a common language is the mother language of southern and northern languages.

Listen to the book review. It sheds some light on the issue.