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Elu
teñku natu ("Seven coconut lands") · Elu Maturai natu ("Seven
mango lands")· Elu
munpalai natu ("Seven front sandy lands") · Elu
pinpalai natu ("Seven back sandy lands")· Elu
kunra natu ("Seven hilly lands") · Elu
kunakarai natu ("Seven coastal lands")· Elu
kurumpanai natu ("Seven dwarf-palm lands)
According to this Account Pandyan
kingdom of the Continent.
Nach
diesem Bericht umfasste Pandyan das neun und
vierzigste Königreich des Kontinente.
According to
this account, Pandyan kingdom one of the continent. |
ஏழு
தென்னை நிலங்கள். ஏழு மா நிலங்கள். ஏழு முன்
ஸ்கோடி நிலங்கள். ஏழு பின் ஸ்கோடி நிலங்கள். ஏழு
மலை நிலங்கள். ஏழு கரையோர நிலங்கள். ஏழு குWk; பனை நிலங்கள். இந்த கணக்குப்படி கண்ட
பாண்டிய ராஜ்ஜியம்.
Nach
diesem Bericht umfasste Pandyan das
neunundvierzigste Königreich des Kontinente.
According to this account, Pandyan kingdom furty
nine of the continents. |
Sieben Kokosnussländer. Sieben Mangoländer.
Sieben Front-Scody-Länder. Sieben
Back-Scody-Länder. Sieben hügelige Länder.
Sieben Küstenländer. Sieben Zwergpalmenländer.
Nach diesem Bericht umfasste Pandyan das
neunundvierzigste Königreich des Kontinente.
Germen. According to this account, Pandyan
kingdom furty nine of the continents. |
Tamil in the mother all of the World languages.
cyfpYs;s midj;J nkhopfSk; jkpopUe;J
cUthf;fg;gl;litjhd;
உலக மொழிகள் அனைத்திற்கும் தாய்
தமிழ். ,e;j Ie;J nkhopfSk;
(
Telugu / Kannadam / Keralam / Malayalam
/ Singalam
)
Hytherapth
Thelungana
tpy; cUthf;fg;gl;lit njupe;J nfhs;sTk;. |
ఏడు కొబ్బరి భూములు. ఏడు మామిడి భూములు. సెవెన్
ఫ్రంట్ స్కోడీ ల్యాండ్స్. సెవెన్ బ్యాక్ స్కోడీ
ల్యాండ్స్. ఏడు కొండల భూములు. ఏడు తీర భూములు. ఏడు
మరుగుజ్జులు పామ్ భూములు. ఈ ఖాతా ప్రకారం ఖండంలోని
పాండ్యన్ రాజ్యం. ఈ కథనం ప్రకారం, ఖండంలోని
పాండ్యన్ రాజ్యం.
Birth in the Hyderabad Telungu |
ಏಳು ತೆಂಗಿನ ಜಮೀನು. ಏಳು ಮಾವಿನ ಭೂಮಿ. ಏಳು ಮುಂಭಾಗದ
ಸ್ಕೋಡಿ ಭೂಮಿಗಳು. ಸೆವೆನ್ ಬ್ಯಾಕ್ ಸ್ಕೋಡಿ ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ಸ್.
ಏಳು ಗುಡ್ಡಗಾಡು ಭೂಮಿ. ಏಳು ಕರಾವಳಿ ಭೂಮಿ. ಏಳು ಡ್ವಾರ್ಸ್
ಪಾಮ್ ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ಸ್. ಈ ಖಾತೆಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಖಂಡದ ಪಾಂಡ್ಯ
ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ. ಈ ಖಾತೆಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರ, ಖಂಡದ ಪಾಂಡ್ಯ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ.
Birth in the
Hyderabad Telunganavil grated. Kannadam |
Birth
in the Hyderabad Keralam (Telugu/
Kannadam/ / Malayalam / Singalam/ five languages
in the Hytherbad / Telunganavil grated.) |
ഏഴ് തെങ്ങുകൾ. ഏഴ് മാങ്ങ നിലം. ഏഴ് ഫ്രണ്ട് സ്കോഡി
ലാൻഡ്സ്. ഏഴ് ബാക്ക് സ്കോഡി ലാൻഡ്സ്. ഏഴ്
മലമ്പ്രദേശങ്ങൾ. ഏഴ് തീരദേശങ്ങൾ. ഏഴ് കുള്ളന്മാർ
ഈന്തപ്പന ഭൂമി. ഈ കണക്ക് പ്രകാരം ഭൂഖണ്ഡത്തിലെ
പാണ്ഡ്യ രാജ്യം. ഈ കണക്കനുസരിച്ച്, ഭൂഖണ്ഡത്തിലെ
പാണ്ഡ്യ രാജ്യം.
Birth in the Hyderabad Telunganavil grated. Malayalam |
පොල් ඉඩම් හතක්. අඹ ඉඩම් හතක්. ඉදිරිපස ස්කොඩි ඉඩම්
හතක්. පසුපස ස්කොඩි ඉඩම් හතක්. කඳුකර ඉඩම් හතක්.
වෙරළබඩ ඉඩම් හතක්. හත් වාමන පාම් ඉඩම්. මෙම ගිණුමට
අනුව මහාද්වීපයේ පාණ්ඩ්ය රාජධානිය. මෙම වාර්තාවට
අනුව, මහාද්වීපයේ පාණ්ඩ්ය රාජධානිය.
Birth in the Hyderabad Telunganavil grated. Singalam |
தமிழ்
நாகரீகம் மற்றும் முதல் தலைமுறை மற்றும் உலகின்
அனைத்து மொழிகளின் தாய் தமிழ்மொழி.
Tamil
civilization and first generation and Tamil
language mother of all languages in the world.
Tamilische Zivilisation und erste Generation und
tamilische Sprache mutter aller Sprachen der
Welt |
Gondwanaland as
Kumari Kandam. Easwarar and Tamils and Jewishes Swaend,
Gondwanaland as (Now oldes Ladys) Kumari Kandam / Lemoria / Atlandis –
Geographical Evidence of the Losted one part under the Water,
Continentes on the Earth Globales We’ve all heard plenty of stories
doing the rounds about the Atlantis, the fictional city that Greeks
wrote about it heir literature. It was believed that they were quite
advanced and liberal for their time. Sadly, it was believed that the
whole city was consumed by the ocean, leaving no remnants of its locals.
This indeed was a tragic end. A similar tale, although a less popular
one, has been narrated in India. This lesser-known tale is about a lost
continent known as the Kumarik Kandam.’ Almost a century back, Tamil
nationalists believed in the existence of Kumarik Kandam and found a
similarity with Lemoria – a mythical “lost one part under the Water,
land” that civilized for than 18,000 years with Tamil speaking
population. This now-sunken Continentes was situated in the Indian and
the Pacific Ocean and was the connecting line between South India
and Antactica via Africa and China. This Tamil continent was ruled by
Pandiyan Kings for more 10,000 years, prior to getting submerged. Then,
the locals and the Pandiyan King migrated to the residual land of Kumari
Kandam and then the capital was moved to Kapatapuram. Having lost a most
the whole of Kumari Kandam, the Pandiyan King then decided to conquer
the parts of lands that belonged to the Chera and Chola kings and
declared Korkai, which was earlier called Kapatapuram, as the capital in
the later days. As per the Kumari Kandam protagonists, the continent was
submerged when the sea levels rose and last ice age ended.
It was after
this that the Tamil people migrated and mixed with different groups,
invariably forming new languages, races, and civilizations. A lot of
people also believe that the whole of humanity is descended from
the dwellers of Kumari Kandam. Both the tales agree on one common point
that the Tamil culture is the foundation of all enlightened cultures in
the world, and Tamil happens to be the mother language midst all other
languages in the world. For now, it cannot be ascertained whether Kumari
Kandam – the “lost land” as narrated in the medieval Tamil literature –
did exist or not. If yes, the theorized size and site cannot be
determined with complete surety. To say the best, there are numerous
truths behind such urban myths, though no way to tell just yet. For now,
while we may assume that Tamil civilization once lost its land
that can only be compared to a district or a small city in today’s
generation, but we cannot claim if it was as big as a
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Kumarik Kandam:- Tamil refers to a mythical lost continent with an
ancient Tamil civilization, located south of present-day India in
the Indian Ocean Alternative
name and spellings include Kumarikkandam and Kumari Nadu. In the 19th
century, a section of the European and American scholars speculated the
existence of a submerged continent called Lemuria, to explain geological
and other similarities between India and Antarctica via Africa -China. A
section of Tamil revivalists adapted this theory, connecting it to the
Pandyan legends of lands lost one part under the Water to the ocean, as
described in ancient Tamil literature. According to these writers, an
ancient Tamil civilization existed on Lemoria, before it was lost one
part under the Water to the sea in a catastrophe. In the 20th century,
the Tamil writers started using the name "Kumari Kandam" to describe
this submerged continent. Although the Lemuria theory was later rendered
obsolete by the continental drift (plate tectonics) theory, the concept
remained popular among the Tamil revivalists of the 20th century.
According to them, Kumari Kandam was the place where the first two Tamil
literary academies (sangams) were organized during the Pandyan reign.
They claimed Kumari Kandam as the cradle of civilization to prove the
antiquity of Tamil language and culture. Etymology and names;- The Tamil
writers were introduced to the concept of Lemoria in the 1890s, they
came up with the Tamilized versions of the continent's name (e.g. "Lemoria").
By the early 1900s, they started using Tamil names for the continent, to
support their depiction of Lemoria as an ancient Tamil civilization. In
1903, V.G. Suryanarayana Sastri first used the term "Kumarinatu" (or
"Kumari Nadu", meaning "Kumari territory") in his work Tamil Mozhiyin
Varalaru (History of the Tamil language). The term Kumari Kandam
("Kumari continent") was first used to describe Lemuria in the 1930s.
The words "Kumari Kandam" first
appear in Kanda Puranam, a 15th-century Tamil version of the Skanda
Purana, written by Kachiappa Sivacharyara (1350-1420). Although the
Tamil revivalists insist that it is a pure Tamil name,
The Andakosappadalam section of Kanda Puranam describes the
following cosmological model of the universe: There are many World, each
having several continents, which in turn, have several kingdoms.
Paratan, the ruler of one such kingdom, had eight sons and one daughter.
He further divided his kingdom into nine parts, and the part ruled by
his daughter Kumari came to be known as Kumari Kandam after her. Kumari
Kandam is described as the kingdom of the Earth. Although the Kumari
Kandam theory became popular among Tamil nationalists, the Kanda
Puranam actually describes Kumari Kandam as the land where
the Tamil reside, where Shiva is worshipped and where the Vedas are
recited. The rest of the kingdoms are described as the territory of
the mlecchas. The 20th century Tamil writers came up with various
theories to explain the etymology of "Kumari Kandam" or "Kumari Nadu".
One set of claims was centered on the purported gender
egalitarianisum in the prelapsarian Tamil homeland. For example, M.
Arunachalam (1944) claimed that the land was ruled by female rulers
(Kumaris). D. Savariroyan Pillai stated that the women of the land had
the right to choose their husbands and owned all the property, because
of which the land came to be known as "Kumari Nadu" ("the land of the
maiden")
Yet another set of claims was centered on the Hindu goddess Kanya
Kumari. Kandiah Pillai, in a book for children, fashioned a new history
for the goddess, stating that the land was named afterher. He claimed
that the temple at Kanyakumari was established by those who survived the
flood that submerged Kumari Kandam. According to cultural historian
Sumathi Ramaswamy, the emphasis of the Tamil writers on the word
"Kumari" (meaning virgin or maiden) symbolizes the purity of Tamil
language and culture, The Tamil writers also came up with several other
names for the lost continent. In 1912, Somasundara Bharati first used
the word "Tamilakam" (a name for the ancient Tamil country.) to cover
the concept of Lemuria, presenting it as the crafle of civilization, in
his Tamil Classics and Tamilakam. Another name used was "Pandiya nadu",
after the Pandyas, regarded as the oldest of the Tamil dynasties. Some
writers used "Navalan Tivu" (or Navalam Island), the Tamil name of
Jambudvipa, to describe the submerged land. Submerged lands in ancient
literature;- Multiple ancient and medieval Tamil and Sanskrit works
contain legendary accounts of lands in South India being lost to the
ocean. The earliest explicit discussion of a katalkol ("seizure by
ocean", possibly tsunami) of Pandyan land is found in a commentary on
Iraiyanar Akapporul. This commentary, attributed to Nakkeerar, is dated
to the later centuries of the 1st millennium CE. It mentions that the
Pandyan kings, an early Tamil dynasty, established three literary
academies (Sangams): the first Sangam flourished for 4,400 years in a
city called Tenmaturai (South Madurai) attended by 549 poets (including
Agastya) and presided over by gods like Shiva, Kubera and Murugan. The
second Sangam lasted for 3,700 years in a city called Kapatapuram,
attended by 59 poets (including Agastya, again). The commentary states
that both the cities were "seized by the ocean", resulting in loss of
all the works created during the first two Sangams. The third Sangam was
established in Uttara (North) Madurai, where it is said to have lasted
for 1,850 years. Nakkeerar's commentary does not mention the size of the
territory lost to the sea. The size is first mentioned in a 15th-century
commentary on Silappatikaram. The commentator Adiyarkunallar mentions
that the lost land extended from Pahruli river in the north to the
Kumari river in the South. It was located to the south of Kanyakumari,
and covered an area of 700 kavatam (a unit of unknown measurement). It
was divided into 49 territories (natu), classified in the following
seven categories:
· Elu
tenku nadu ("Seven coconut lands") ·
Elu Maturai nadu ("Seven
mango lands")
· Elu
munpalai nadu ("Seven front sandy lands") · Elu
pinpalai nadu ("Seven back sandy lands")
· Elu
kunra nadu ("Seven hilly lands")
· Elu
kunakarai nadu ("Seven coastal lands")
· Elu
kurumpanai nadu ("Seven dwarf-palm lands")
Other medieval writers, such as
Ilampuranar and Perasiriyar, also make stray references to the loss of
antediluvian lands to the south of Kanyakumari, in their commentaries on
ancient texts like Tolkappiyam. Another legend about the loss of Pandyan
territory to the sea is found in scattered verses of Purananuru (dated
between 1st century BCE and 5th century CE) and Kaliththokai (6th-7th
century CE). According to this account, the Pandyan king compensated the
loss of his land by seizing an equivalent amount of land from the
neighboring kingdoms of Cheras and Cholas.There are also several other
ancient accounts of non-Pandyan land lost to the sea. Many Tamil
Hindu shrines have legendary accounts of surviving the floods mentioned
in Hindu mythology. These include the prominent temples of
Kanyakumari, Kanchipuram, Kumbakonam, Madurai, Sirkazhi and Tiruvottiyur. There
are also legends of temples submerged under the sea, such as the Seven
Pagodas of Mahabalipuram. None of these ancient texts or their medieval
commentaries use the name "Kumari Kandam" or "Kumari Nadu" for the land
purportedly lost one part under the Water to the sea. They do not state
that the land lost by the sea was a whole continent located to the south
of Kanyakumari. Nor do they link the loss of this land to the history of
Tamil people as a community.
Lemoria hypothesis in India;- In 1864,
the English zoologist Philip Sclater hypothesized the existence of a
submerged land connection between India, Madagascar and continental
Africa. He named this submerged land Lemuria, as the concept had its
origins in his attempts to explain the presence of lemor-like primates
(strepsirrhini) on these three disconnected lands. Before the Lemoria
hypothesis was rendered obsolete by the continental drift theory, a
number of scholars supported and expanded it. The concept was introduced
to the Indian readers in an 1873 physical geography textbook by Henry
Francis Blanford. According to Blanford, the landmass had submerged due
to volcanic activity during the Cretaceous period. In late 1870s, the
Lemoria theory found its first proponents in the present-day Tamil Nadu,
when the leaders of the Adyar-headquartered Theosophical Society wrote
about it (see the root race theory). Most European and American
geologists dated Lemuria's disappearance to a period before the
emergence of modern humans. Thus, according to them, Lemuria could not
have hosted an ancient civilization. He also suggested that the
progenitors of the other races must have migrated from Lemoria to other
places via South India. This theory was also cursorily discussed by
other colonial officials like Edgar Thursten and Herbert Hope Risley.
including in the census reports of 1891 and 1901. Later, Maclean's
manual came to be cited as an authoritative work by the Tamil writers,
who often wrongly referred to him as a "scientist" and a "Doctor". The
native Tamil intellectuals first started discussing the concept of a
submerged Tamil homeland in the late 1890s. In 1898, J. Nallasami Pillai
published an article in the philosophical-literary journal Siddhanta
Deepika (aka The Truth of Light). He wrote about the theory of a lost
continent in the Indian Ocean (Lemoria), mentioning that the Tamil
legends speak of floods which destroyed the literary works produced
during the ancient sangams. However, he also added that this theory had
"no serious historical or scientific footing".
Tamil revivalist writers claimed that Lemoria, prior to its deluge, was
the original Tamil homeland and birthplace of Tamil civilization. They
often misquoted or miscited the words of Western scholars to grant
credibility to their assertions. During the British era, the loss of
small patches of lands to cyclones was cataloged in several district
reports, gazetteers, and other documents. The Tamil writers of the
period cited these as evidence supporting the theory about an ancient
land lost one part under to the sea. In curriculum;- The books
discussing the Kumari Kandam theory were first included in the college
curriculum of the present-day Tamil Nadu in 1908. Suryanarayana Sastri's
book was prescribed for use in Madras University's Master's degree
courses in 1908-09. Over the next few decades, other such works were
also included in the curriculum of Madras University and Annamalai
University. These include Purnalingam Pillai's A Primer of Tamil
Literature (1904) and Tamil literature (1929), Kandiah
Pillai's Tamilakam (1934), and Srinivasa Pillai's Tamils
Varalaru (1927). In a 1940 Tamils language textbook for ninth-grade
students, T. V. Kalyanasundaram wrote that Lemoria of the European
scholars was Kumarinadu of the Tamils literature. After the Tamils
parties came to Power in the 1967 Madras State elections, the Kumari
Kandam theory was disseminated more widely through school and college
textbooks. In 1971, the Government of Tamil Nadu established a formal
committee to write the history of Tamilakam (ancient Tamils territory).
The state education minister R. Nedunceliyan declared in the Legislative
Assembly that by "history",he meant "from the time of Lemoria that was
seized by the ocean". stating that it was supported by "the foremost
geologists, ethnologists, and anthropologists". As late as 1981, the
Tamil Nadu government's history textbooks mentioned the Kumari Kandam
theory. A land lost one part under the Water, to the ocean also helped
the Tamil revivalists provide an explanation for the lack of
historically verifiable or scientifically acceptable material evidence
about this ancient civilization. The earliest extant Tamil writings,
which are attributed to the third Sangam and thus could not have been
the creation of a purely Tamils civilization. Connecting the concept of
Lemoria to an ancient Tamil civilization allowed the Tamil revivalists
to portray a society completely free of Indo-Aryan influence. They could
claim that the various signs of the ancient Tamil civilization had been
lost in the deep ocean.
Cradle of civilization;- According to the Kumari Kandam proponents, the
continent was submerged when the last ice age ended and the sea levels
rose. The Tamil people then migrated to other lands, and mixed with the
other groups, leading to the formation of new races, languages and
civilizations. Some also theorize that the entire humanity is descended
from the inhabitants of Kumari Kandam. Both narratives agree on the
point that the Tamil culture is the source of all civilized culture in
the world, and Tamil is the mother language of all other languages in
the world. According to the most versions, the original culture of
Kumari Kandam survived in Tamil Nadu. As early as 1903, Suryanarayana
Sastri, in his Tamilmoliyin Varalaru, insisted that all the humans were
descendants of the ancient Tamils from Kumari Kandam. Such claims were
repeated by several others, including M. S. Purnalingam
Pillai and Maraimalai Adigal. In 1917, Abraham Pandithar wrote that
Lemoria was the cradle of human race, and Tamil was the first language
spoken by the humans. These claims were repeated in the school and
college textbooks of Tamil Nadu throughout the 20th century. M. S.
Purnalingam Pillai, writing in 1927, stated that Indus Valley
Civilization was established by the Tamil survivors from the flood-hit
Kumari Nadu. In the 1940s, N. S. Kandiah Pillai published maps showing
migration of the Kumari Kandam residents to other parts of the world. In
1953, R. Nedunceliyan, who later became the education minister of Tamil
Nadu, insisted that the civilization spread from South India to the
Indus Valley and Sumer, and subsequently, to "Arabia, Egypt, Greece,
Italy, Spain and other places". They presented modern Tamil as a pale
remnant of the glorious ancient Tamil language spoken in Kumari Kandam.
In a 1975 Tamil Nadu Government College textbook, the Tamil revivalists
of Kumari Kandam did not consider Kumari Kandam as a primitive society
or a rural civilization. Instead, they described it as a utopia in which
human achievement had reached its pinnacle, and people lived lives
devoted to learning, education, travel, and commerce. As Sumanti
Ramaswamy notes, this "localization" of Kumari Kandam was often intended
as a teaching tool, to inspire contemporary Tamils to pursue excellence.
But this preoccupation with "civilization" was also a response to the
British rulers' projection of the Europeans as more civilized than the
Tamils. Suryanarayana Shastri, in 1903, described the early Tamils as
expert cultivators, great poets and far-reaching traders who lived in an
egalitarian and democratic society. Savariroyan Pillai, writing a few
years later, described Kumari Kandam as a place of learning and culture.
Shivajnana Yogi (1840-1924) said that this ancient society had no caste
system. Kandiah Pillai, in a 1945 work for children, wrote that
Kumarikandam was ruled by a strong and upright emperor called Sengon who
organized the Sangams. presented Lemuria as a scientifically valid
concept. It depicted Kumari Kandam cities resplendent with mansions,
gardens, arts, crafts, music and dance.
Primordial but not primitive;- The
Tamil revivalists did not consider Kumari Kandam as a primitive
society or a rural civilization. Instead, they described it as
a utopia which had reached the zenith of human achievement, and where
people lived a life devoted to learning, education, travel and commerce.
Sumanthi Ramaswamy notes that this "placemaking" of Kumari Kandam was
frequently intended as a teaching tool, meant to inspire the modern
Tamils to pursue excellence. But this pre-occupation with "civilization"
was also a response to the British rulers' projection of the Europeans
as more civilized than the Tamils. Suryanarayan Sastri, in 1903,
described the antediluvian Tamils as expert cultivators, fine poets and
far-traveling merchants, who lived in an egalitarian and democratic
society. Savariroyan Pillai, writing a few years later, described Kumari
Kandam as a seat of learning and culture. Sivagnana Yogi (1840-1924)
stated that this ancient society was free of any caste system. Kandiah
Pillai, in a 1945 work for children, wrote that Kumarikandam was ruled
by a strong and just emperor called Sengon, who organized the sangams.
In 1981, the Government of Tamil Nadu funded a documentary film on
Kumari Kandam. The film, personally backed by the Chief Minister M. G.
Ramachandran and directed by P. Neelakantan, was screened at the Fifth
International Conference of Tamil Studies in Madurai. It combined the
continental drift theory with the submerged continent theory to present
Lemuria as a scientifically valid concept. It depicted Kumari
Kandam
cities resplendent with mansions, gardens, arts, crafts,
music
and dance.
Alleged lost works;- The
Tamil revivalists insisted that the first two Tamil
sangams (literary academies) were not mythical, and
happened in the Kumari Kandam era. While most Tamil
revivalists did not enumerate or list the lost Sangam
works, some came up with their names, and even listed
their contents. In 1903, Suryanarayana Sastri named some
of these works as Mutunarai, Mutukuruku, Mapuranam and Putupuranam.
In 1917, Abraham Pandithar listed three of these works
as the world's first treatises of music: Naratiyam, Perunarai and Perunkuruku.
He also listed several rare musical instruments such as
the thousand-stringed lute, which had been lost to the
sea. Devaneya Pavanar printed an entire list of the
submerged books. Others listed books on a wide range of
topics, including medicine, martial arts, logic,
painting, sculpture, yoga, philosophy, music,
mathematics, alchemy, magic, architecture, poetry, and
wealth. Since these works had been lost to the sea, the
Kumari Kandam proponents insisted that no empirical
proof could be provided for their claims. In 1902,
Chidambaranar published a book called Cenkonraraiccelavu,
claiming that he had 'discovered' the manuscript from "some
old cudgan [sic]
leaves". The book was presented as a lost-and-found work
of the first Sangam at Tenmadurai. The author of the
poem was styled as Mutaluli Centan Taniyur ("Chentan who
lived in Taniyur before the first deluge"). The work
talked about the exploits of an antediluvian Tamil king
Sengon, who ruled the now-submerged kingdom of
Peruvalanatu, the region between the rivers Kumari and
Pahruli. According to Chidambaranar, Sengon was a native
of Olinadu, which was located south of the Equator; the
king maintained several battleships and conquered lands
as far as Tibet. In 1950s, Cenkonraraiccelavu was
declared as a forgery by S. Vaiyapuri Pillai. However,
this did not stop the Tamil revivalists from invoking
the text. The 1981 documentary funded by Government of
Tamil Nadu declared it as the "world's first travelogue".
Extent;- The
medieval commentator Adiyar kunallar stated that the size
of the land south of Kanyakumari, lost to the sea was
700 kavatam. The
modern equivalent of kavatam is not known. In 1905,
Arasan Shanmugham Pillai wrote that this land amounted
to thousands of miles. According to Purnalingam Pillai
and Suryanarayana Sastri, the number was equivalent to
7000 miles. Others, such as Abraham Pandither, Aiyan
Aarithan, Devaneyan and Raghava Aiyangar offered
estimates ranging from 1,400 to 3,000 miles. According
to U. V. Swaminatha Iyer, only the land amounting in
area to only a few villages (equivalent to the Tamil
measure of two kurram) was lost. In 1903, Suryanarayana
Sastri suggested that Kumari Kandam extended from the
present-day Kanyakumari in North to Kerguelen Islands in
South, and from Madagascar in the West to Sunda
Islands in the East. In 1912, Somasundara Bharati wrote
that the continent touched China, Africa, Australia and
Kanyakumari on four sides. In 1948, Maraimalai Adigal
stated that the continent stretched as far as the South
Pole. Somasundara Bharati offered an estimate of
6000-7000 miles. Maps;- The
first map to visualize Lemuria as an ancient Tamil
territory was published by S. Subramania Sastri in 1916,
in the journal Centamil. This map
was actually part of an article that criticized the
pseudohistorical claims about a lost continent. Sastri
insisted that the lost land mentioned in
Adiyarkunallar's records was barely equivalent to a taluka (not
larger than a few hundred square miles). The map
depicted two different versions of Kumari Kandam: that
of Sastri, and that of A. Shanmugam Pillai (see above).
The lost land was depicted as a peninsula, similar to
the present-day Indian peninsula. In 1927, Purnalingam
Pillai published a map titled "Puranic India before the
Deluges", in which he labeled the various places of
Kumari Kandam with names drawn from ancient literary works. Pulavar Kulanthai, in his 1946
map, was first to depict cities like Tenmaturai and
Kapatapuram on the maps of Kumari Kandam. Several maps
also depicted the various mountain ranges and rivers of
Kumari Kandam. The most elaborate cartographic
visualization appeared in a 1977 map by R. Mathivanan.
This map showed the 49 nadus
mentioned by Adiyarkunallar, and appears in the Tamil
Nadu government's 1981 documentary. A
1981 map published by N. Mahalingam depicted the lost
land as "Submerged Tamil Nadu" in 20,000 B.C. A 1991 map,
created by R. Mathivanan, showed a land bridge connecting
Indian peninsula to Antarctica. A few Tamil writers also
depicted Gondwanaland as Kumari Kandam. |
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