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	Kumari Kandam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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
		Adiyarkkunelar, described the distance between the Prahuli and Kumari rivers as 700 kavathams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kumari_Kandam (302 words)

	04TheLostContinent
		It is said that ancient Madurai was the seat of the Tamil literary Academy and Kavatapuram or Muthoor was the capital of the Pandyan Kingdom.
		The country was interspersed with mountains with a bewildering variety of flora and fauna of a bygone age.
		Peninsular India extended from Kanya Kumari, forming a sprawling continent touching Africa in the West, Australia in the south and occupying a large portion of the Indian Ocean.
	www.crystallotus.com /Lemuria/04TheLostContinent.htm (329 words)

	Kumari
		Although the Kumari is Buddhist, she is revered and worshipped by the country's Buddhists and Hindus alike.
		A Kumari is believed to be the bodily incarnation of the goddess Taleju until she menstruates, after which it is believed that the goddess vacates her body.
		She is dressed and made up as a Kumari and then leaves the Taleju temple and walks across the square on a white cloth to the Kumari Ghar that will be her home for the duration of her divinity.
	www.dcult.com /Buddhism-(A-K)/Kumari.php (2430 words)

	Qwika - similar:Lost_city
		Kumari Kandam is a legendary sunken landmass to the south of Kanyakumari, at the tip of South India.
		Kumari Kandam has often been compared and identified with Lemuria in modern times.
		According to Tamil Tradition, the Dravidians originally came from a submerged island, Kumari kandam, to the South of India.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Lost_city (1632 words)

	Tamil Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to th Kumari Kandam tradition, over a period of about just 11,000 years, the Pandyans, a historical dynasty of Tamil kings, formed three Tamil Sangams, in order to foster among their subjects the love of knowledge, literature and poetry.
		Literary evidence of the lost continent of Kumari Kandam comes principally from the literature of the Third Tamil Sangam and the historical writings based on them.
		It is, however, in the inundation map for 10,600 years ago as seen that the island to the south of Kanya Kumari had disappeared to a dot, and the Maldives further ravaged.
	www.tamilguardian.com /print.asp?articleid=256 (1767 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kanyakumari got its name from the Kumari Amman or the Kanyakumari Temple situated at the shore on the confluence of the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.
		It is suggested that there once existed a continent called Kumari Kandam to the south of Kanyakumari, often compared with Lemuria.
		The Kumari Amman or the Kanyakumari Temple, located on the shore, is a Shakti Peetha dedicated to a manifestation of Parvati, the virgin goddess who did penance to obtain Lord Shiva's hand in marriage.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kanyakumari (1419 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the present state of our knowledge, it seems best to assume that the pottery graffiti do not constitute a writing system with phonetic values, but may be regarded as mnemonic or representational devices derived from pictorial art and belonging to the category of forerunners of writing (I.J. Gelb 1963).
		Kumari Kandam is believed to be a large tract of land south of Cape Comorin submerged under the sea, according to the legendary tradition referred to in Old Tamil works.
		In a modern re-interpretation, Lemuria and Kumari Kandam are linked together as the most ancient homeland of the Tamil civilisation.
	www1.shore.net /~india/ejvs/ejvs0801/ejvs0801.txt (8733 words)

	Kumari Kandam - Wikipédia
		Kumari Kandam est un continent légendaire englouti au sud de Kanyakumari, à l'extrémité de l'Inde.
		Kumari Kandam a souvent été comparée et assimilée à la Lémurie.
		Selon la légende, il y avait deux principales rivières sur Kumari Kandam, le Pagliyaru et la Rivière Kumari.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kumari_Kandam (123 words)

	The Rational Fool
		Kumari Kandam is a land mass that is supposed to be submerged under the India Ocean, extending from the southern tip of peninsular India, to Madagascar in the west, and Australia in the east.
		References to Kumari Kandam can be found in the Tamil literature, including Cilapathikaram and Manimekalai.
		Both Kumari Kandam and Lemuria have been dismissed as myths by most of the scientific community.
	therationalfool.blogspot.com /search?updated-max=2006-11-22T23:42:00-08:00&max-results=10 (3289 words)

	Catastrophes of the past in Tamil Aham: poetic exaggeration or scientific facts?
		The continent of Lemuria is referred as "Kumari Kandam" in ancient Tamil literature.
		The ancient Kumari Kandam drawn with the background-knoweldge gathered from the literature references.
		The Cilappatikaram and the Manimekalai, the two earliest epics/narrative poems in Tamil, both refer to a vast landmass that was swallowed by a "cataclysmic landslip" or "on-rush of the sea." These landslips have submerged vast territory that was called Kumai Nadu or Kumari Kandam, known also as Lemuria to western scholars.
	www.tamilnation.org /diaspora/tsunami/past.htm (1230 words)

	Kumari Kandam and Airyana Vaejo
		Sundaram, Chief Professor and Head of the Department of Tamil, Presidency College, in Madras believes that Kumari Kandam was a 'lost continent' that lay to the south of India.
		The unique detail of the lost continent of Kumari Kandam is that it lay south of India.
		After seeing the larger picture of the lost island paradise maybe you will share my opinion that it is short-sighted to restrict the search for Kumari Kandam to the coastline of India or Ceylon or even the Maldive Islands.
	www.flem-ath.com /kumari.htm (541 words)

	"Bridging the Myth and Science of the Flood" by Harry Young
		The second period ties in with the date Plato ascribed in the Timaeus and Critias to the destruction by earthquakes and flooding of Atlantis, and with the Tamil myth of the submerging of the fabled land of Kumari Kandam.
		Hancock also investigates the myth of Kumari Kandam, an antediluvian civilization said to have existed thousands of years ago around south India.
		It is believed to have been a great center of learning with magnificent academies which may have left a legacy of cartographic and astronomical knowledge which exists today in the ancient Indian texts.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/science/sc-harry.htm (2973 words)

	Welcome to National Folklore Support Centre
		The concept of Lemuria was born in the 1860s when certain British geologists noted the striking similarity between rock formations and fossils found in India and Africa.
		There is confusion between the concept of the lost land south of India linked with the literary history of Tamil tradition and the myth of the lost land of Lemuria.
		With reference to the records of sea level fluctuations, climatic changes, glacial advances and glacial retreats, this article tries to trace the factors that had given rise to the myth of Kumari Kandam and briefly touches upon the development of the European concept of Lemuria that found its way into the Tamil literary tradition.
	www.indianfolklore.org /publications_journal_current-4e.htm (182 words)

	Who really were the Dravidians? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although it's not known about whether or not Dravidians and Aryans are racially the same, the term Dravidian is used these days only to refer to the speakers of Dravidian languages (mostly South Indians), while Aryan is used to refer to the speakers of Indo-Aryan languages (mostly Northern Indians).
		The actual Dravidians came from the lost continent of Kumari Kandam....
		Well according to some Tamil legends, they came from Kumari Kandam but there isn't really any evidence to suggest whether or not its true.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=53054 (857 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : Briefly
		CHENNAI: Kumari — Hall of History, an exhibition of paintings, sponsored by the Gandhi Kamaraj Trust in Kanyakumari, will be inaugurated by Pondicherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on December 15.
		According to managing trustee Kumari Ananthan, historical paintings relating to Kanyakumari's links with history, such as Kumari Kandam, Tamil sangam period and kings ruled.
		Portraits of St. Thomas, apostle of Christ, who visited Kumari; freedom fighter Shenbagaraman, Gandhiji and Kamaraj will adorn the hall of history.
	www.hindu.com /2005/12/11/stories/2005121103000400.htm (1039 words)

	Dravidian race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Tamil epic Shilappadikaram, begins with invocations to Chandra, Surya, and Indra, and has homages to Agni, Varuna, Shiva, Subrahmanya, Vishnu-Krishna, Uma, etc. The epic states that “Vedic sacrifices [are] being faultlessly performed” and has many references to Vedic culture and Vedic texts.
		In the Buddhist work Manimekhalai, the submergence of the city Puhar in Kumari Kandam is attributed to the neglect of the worship to Indra.
		At Mahabalipuram, near Chennai, submerged ruins have been found in the ocean.
	dravidian-race.iqnaut.net (1311 words)

	Atlantis Location Hypothesis - Crystalinks
		Sundaland) and stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have drawn parallels to Atlantis.
		The Canary Islands have also been identified as a possible location, west of the Straits of Gibraltar but in close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea.
		In the Gulf of Cambay, there is an archeological submarine site of a former island named Dwaraka, which is mainly associated with locations in Indian mythology (especially in the Mahabharata), which has also appeared in discussions about Atlantis.
	www.crystalinks.com /atlantislocations.html (3061 words)

	Historians' TIMELINE of ancient Tamil Kings of Sangam works
		The Fables of Kumari KANdam etc., are not supported by Sangam LIETerature.
		Silapathikaram Line tells Kumari Kodu, does not means Kandam, and moreover Satelite Pictures do not support any Below SEA land mass Between Indian Ocean to Pacific.
		Hi Solomon, you are quoting others works as a basis for rejecting Kumari kandam.
	forumhub.mayyam.com /hub/viewlite.php?t=3336 (1909 words)

	Vanavil - A Portal for World Tamils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is believed that it is this Linga which is still under worhsip in the Madurai temple.
		Once Dhanajaya, a merchant of Manavur, where the Pandyas had arrived after the second deluge in Kumari Kandam, having been overtaken by nightfall in Kadamba forest, spent the night in the Indra Vimana.
		When next morning he woke up, he was surprised to see signs of worship.
	www.vanavil.com /vanavil/site/vannangal/prevart.asp?id=tour&arclick= (3153 words)

	Dravidian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to Tamil lore, the ancient Tamils originally came from submerged land Kumari Kandam in the south of India.
		In When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis by Rand Flem-Ath and Rose Flem-Ath, the authors argue that Kumari Kandam is Lumeria, which is also Airyana Vaejo, the homeland of the Aryans giving more evidence that North Indians originated from South India.
		Vedic legends speak of battles between the Asuras and Devas.
	www.stupidproxy.com /index.php?q=aHR0cDovL2VuLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS9EcmF2aWRpYW5fcGVvcGxl (2622 words)

	India Culture Disucssion chat forums
		Kandam was a "Lost Continent that lay to the south of
		Kandam was destroyed by the Atalali [Pale People Of The West] who resided in Atala or Atlantis in the
		on this, I have concluded that this Kumari Kandam is
	indiaculture.net /talk/messages/766/13696.html?1146924531 (4986 words)

	Welcome to the Place of Beauty-Thengapattanam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Chenta Palli, the ruins of which are present on the hilly rock at the eastern side is still considered as a holy place.
		Chilappathikaram, the Tamil epic refers thengapattanam as the capital of “thenga nadu” — one of the 48 countries of lemuria, otherwise known as ‘kumari kandam’, where the Dravidian civilizations known as the ‘cradle of civilizations’ flourished.
		then kumari thantha theen thamil pulavarkal — prof.
	www.thengapattanam.150m.com /history.html (1846 words)

	Kumari Kandam
		There is always references in many tamil ilakyangal regarding existance of Kumari Kandam down south of present TamilNadu.
		Let us also share our knowledge of literary works that speaks about Kumari Kandam.
		Direct them to carry out excavations on the ocean bed in the Indian ocean where Kumari Kandam was identified to be.
	forumhub.mayyam.com /hub/viewlite.php?t=1685 (2319 words)

	flood_myths_asia
		Half of the land mass Kumari Kandam, which was south of India, sank in a great flood, destroying the first Tamil Sangam (literary academy).
		The people moved to the other half and established the second Tamil Sangam there, but the rest of Kumari too sank beneath the sea.
		The lone survivor was a Tamil prince named Thirumaaran, who managed to rescue some Tamil literary classics and swim with them to present-day Tamil Nadu.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Ancient_religions/Flood_myths/flood_myths_asia.htm (2125 words)

	Eelavar Networks: History Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		And it is the duty of our government as well of nations that border within Indian Ocean must indulge in a joint search for answers to these puzzles.
		Unless the submerged Kumari Kandam is subjected to in depth study, it will be impossible to back up our literary evidences with scientific proofs, and the National Institute of Oceanography must be engaged to unravel these facts.
		While excavating Arikamedu, all efforts to look into the ocean floor near Pondicherry for further evidences is a must.
	www.eelavar.com /eelam/pageview.php?ID=723.5&SID=2101 (861 words)

	Comments on Seva, comments on Was Sanskrit ever used widely in India?, comments on Subhash C. Sharma's blogs, comments ...
		Inadvertently, you are taking this argument towards "Kumari Kandam".
		If the existence of Kumari Kandam turns out to be correct, then the social and religious history of India ought to be rewritten.
		The Tamils have a tradition that their poetsâ academy or Sangam existed for ten thousand years, and that its seat (along with the entire Tamil capital) had to be moved thrice because of the rising sea level.
	seva.sulekha.com /blog/post/2006/08/was-sanskrit-ever-used-widely-in-india/comments/pageno-3.htm (1608 words)

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