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Kumari Kandam is the name of a legendary sunken landmass that lay to the south of present-day Kanyakumari District at the southern tip of South India. Image File history File links Circle-question. ... The Tiruvalluvar statue The Vivekananda memorial The Gandhi Mandepam Kanyakumari   is a town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... South India is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry, whose inhabitants are collectively referred to as South Indians. ...

The Legend in Sangam Literature

Sangam literature describes an area of land known as Kumari Kandam, which lay to the south and east of the Tamil country, which had been lost to the sea in two successive inundations ^{[1] [2] [3]}. The two inundations are said to mark the division between the three sangam periods. Geological features described in the literature include two main rivers of Kumari Kandam as the Pagruliyaru and the Kumari. It is also believed to have had numerous great cities with great monuments and the foremost among those cities were the two first and second cities of Madurai. Both the first and the second Tamil literary Sangam Eras, the Muthal Sangam and the Idaii Sangam, were said to have been held in those two respective cities of Madurai. Dravidian Traditions give the two Sangam periods antiquities ranging in tens of thousands of years with a timeline of about 10,000 B.C to the second. Both the Sangam Eras were supposed to have been terminated by deluges which submerged Tamil lands. Sangam literature refers to a body of classical Tamil literature created between the years 200 BCE and 300 CE.[1][2] This collection contains 2381 poems written by 473 poets, some 102 of whom are anonymous authors[3]. The period during which these poems were written is commonly referred to... Madurai   (மதுரை in Tamil ; IPA: ) is a city and a municipal corporation situated on the banks of River Vaigai in Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... now. ... Madurai   (மதுரை in Tamil ; IPA: ) is a city and a municipal corporation situated on the banks of River Vaigai in Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ... now. ...

The Epics Shilappadikaram and Manimekhalai describe the submerged city of Puhar. Cilappatikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) also spelled as Cilappadhikaram or Silappadhigaram, is one of the five great epics of ancient Tamil Literature. ... Manimekalai is one of the masterpieces of Tamil literature and belongs to The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature. ... Poompuhar is a town in Thanjavur district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ...

The Legend in Medieval Period

Adiyarkkunelar, described the distance between the Prahuli and Kumari rivers as 700 kavathams. This distance has been interpretted as about 1,000 modern miles. ^[4]

Relation to Lemuria

Kumari Kandam has also been linked ^{[name a specific person/group]} to Lemuria ^{[citation needed]}. Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical lost land variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ... Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical lost land variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ...

References

1. ^ Shilappadikaram
2. ^ Manimekhalai
3. ^ Kalittogai
4. ^ http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=256

Cilappatikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) also spelled as Cilappadhikaram or Silappadhigaram, is one of the five great epics of ancient Tamil Literature. ... Manimekalai is one of the masterpieces of Tamil literature and belongs to The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature. ...

External links

• An Atlantis in the Indian Ocean
• Lemuria
• Tamil Sangams