Kumari Kandam
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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.
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[edit] The Legend in Sangam Literature
Sangam literature describes an area of land known as Kumari Kandam, which lay to the south of Dravida 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. South Indian 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 the continent. A supposed map is also available and points out to a large land mass in the Indian Ocean.
The Epics Cilappatikaram and Manimekalai describe the submerged city of Puhar.
[edit] 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 7,000 modern miles.
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