races proceeded to the parts of the globe which they now inhabit. Human remains and traces have been found on the East coast of an age which is indeterminate but quite beyond the ordinary calculations of History.”¹

(6) “The most ancient facts regarding Southern India are remarkable. Geology and Natural history alike make it certain that at a time within the bounds of human knowledge, this country did not form part of Asia. A large southern continent of which this country once formed part has even been assumed as necessary to account for the different circumstances. The Sanskrit Pooranic writers, the Ceylon Boodhists, and the local traditions of the West Coast, all indicate in different manners a great disturbance of the point of the peninsula and Ceylon within recent times. The date given by English theologians to the Noachian deluge is 2348 B.C.; and that given by the Ceylon Boodhists to the latest submergence in the region of Ceylon is 2387 B.C. The two dates cannot have been arrived at with mutual knowledge. Investigations in relation to race show it to be by no means impossible that Southern India was once the passage-ground by which the ancient progenitors of Northern and Mediterranean races proceeded to the parts of the globe which they now inhabit. Human remains and traces have been found on the East Coast of an age which is indeterminate but quite beyond the ordinary calculations of History.”²

(7) “Before the diluvial catastrophe, the Western Ghats were known as the Northern mountains, in relation to the southern land which was submerged by the ocean. The Satapata Brahmana relates that the ark of Manu rested in the Northern Mountains and the Puranas mention that he, ‘Lord of the Dravida’ underwent austere penance in the Malaya. The Mahabharata and the Puranas give an account of seven other Rishis who accompained Manu and settled in the new colony. This indicates the advent of other clans led by other Rishis who followed the footsteps of the “Lord of the Dravida.” Thus it appears that the Tamilian race that settled in the Pandu land belonged to these eight Rishis or Prajapatis, one

1. Ibid, p.110
2. Manual of the Administrative of the Madras Presidency Vol.I, p.110,111