The Tamil history of Lemuria/ Kumari Kandam
The Tamil history of Lemuria/ Kumari Kandam What is Lemuria/kumari kandam? What was its history? And how is it related to Tamil and its people? Many archeologists believe that Lemuria was a huge continent that existed during the ice age period and is believed to be the place of origin of humans. The continent itself stretched from south india connecting Madagascar and Australia which also included present day sri lanka; which is now submerged under water. That is the western point of view; now lets see what our ancient tamil writings say. There are elaborate mentions of Lemuria also known as kumari kandam or naavalan theevu in ancient tamil literature dating back 4000 years. They elaborate about the landscape and the popular cities and nations the lost continent had. Various highly populated cities like Thenmadurai (translates to south Madurai), kabadapuram and muthoor were present in the continent. Th...
