Pulavar kulanthai biography of christopher
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Origins
The Kongu Vellala Gounders were referred as Gangakulam(Tamil: கங்காகுலம்) meaning the one descended from the King Gangadatta(Sanskrit: meaning "the one" given by the Goddess Ganga) (Tamil: கங்கதத்தன்) in Tamil, Hinduliterature and religious works.The name Gounder[5]is a caste title derived from the SangamTamilword Kamindan(root word being Kavunda) which means "people who protected land, people and country"and was originally accorded to the "Feudal Lords" of the Kongu Naduwho had distinguished themselves bravely and fiercely in protecting the honour of the Kongu regionand its people. References to this can be seen in the copper-plate inscriptions of the Chola, Cheraand Pandyadynasties of Tamil Nadu. It is also found in the later Gangaand Pallava
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Kumari Kandam
Mythical lost Tamil continent
Kumari Kandam (Tamil: குமரிக்கண்டம், romanized: Kumarikkaṇṭam) is a mythical continent, believed to be lost with an ancient Tamil civilization, supposedly located south of the Indian subcontinent in the Indian Ocean. Alternative names and spellings include Kumarikkandam and Kumari Nadu.
In the 19th century, some European and American scholars speculated the existence of a nedsänkt continent called Lemuria to explain geological and other similarities between Africa, Australia, the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar. A section of Tamil revivalists adapted this theory, connecting it to the Pandyan legends of lands lost to the ocean, as described in ancient Tamil and Sanskrit literature. According to these writers, an ancient Tamil civilisation existed on Lemuria, before it was lost to the sea in a catastrophe.
In the 20th century, the Tamil writers started using the name Kumari Kandam to describe this submerged conti
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Academic literature on the topic 'Tamil lexicon'
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Published: 29 July 2024
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Smith, Ian. "Comments on Nordhoff ’s “Establishing and Dating Sinhala Influence in Sri Lanka Malay”." Journal of Language Contact 5, no. 1 (2012): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187740912x623406.