Kumari Kandam
Kumari Kandam is (or was) a legendary sunken landmass that lay to the south of present-day
Kanyakumari District at the southern tip of
South India. This landmass or continent has often been compared to and identified with the continent of
Lemuria.
According to
Proto-Dravidian and
Tamil traditions, the
Dravidians originally came from a submerged continent that was this
Kumari Kandam, which extended to the south (and possibly southwest) of
India. According to the legend, the two main in
Kumari Kandam were the Pagruliyaru and the Kumari. There were also mountains, valleys, forests and all forms of natural green landscapes that made it breathtakingly beautiful. 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. But when juxtaposed with
Hindu traditions which too attribute the earliest civilizations and the beginning of the
Aryan way of life to a southward extension of present-day
Dravida, the possible timelines approach a bizarre two billion years. Both the
Sangam Eras were supposed to have been terminated by mega-deluges of the ultimate proportions.
The Epics
Shilappadikaram and
Manimekhalai describe the submerged city of
Puhar.
Kumari Kandam has also been linked to
Lemuria.
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An Atlantis in the Indian Ocean*
Lemuria*
Tamil Sangams
