Flood stories from around the world

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HinduThought, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

<kalyan97@g...> wrote:

Needed, a party to promote kumarinaadu ! Is Kumari a Tamil word or

Samskr.tam word?

 

Flood Stories from Around the World by Mark Isaak

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/floods.htm

 

This is a comprehensive compilation which should serve as a preface to

the lecture organised by Centre for Contemporary Studies in Chennai on

12 Feb. 2005 on Tsunami and the theory of submerged lands through

history. The context is the book by Sumathi Ramaswamy who refers to

Tamil devotees in over 60 pages of end-notes in: Sumathi Ramaswamy,

2005, Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories -- The lost land of

Lemuria, Delhi, Permanent black. Sumathy is Associate Prof. of History

at the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

Tamil (southern India): 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. [sundar Narayan, personal

communication, citing Appadurai; see also Adigal, p. 70 (11:20-21)]

 

There is a good possibility that Kumarinaadu was near Gujarat.

 

K.

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