Very large numbers were used by the ancient Tamils in counting. Some of them are the following:

     The values of ƒmbal and ve˜˜am are not known.
     (2) All literature was in poetic form, and all scholars and authors were poets, who not only wrote but also spoke in poetry off hand.

     The poetic art was developed to a very high point of refinement, and the best patterns of poetry ever devised by man are in Tamil alone. The Ve-bƒ and Kali meters are the most exquisite, having no parallel in any other language.

     It is no exaggeration to say that the Lemurian Tamils were a poetic nation, as hundreds, if not thousands, of poets and poetesses seem to have been during every generation throughout the Academic Age.

     “Poetic ideas find their fitting expression only in verse. From time immemorial the history of the poetry of all nations and of all countries bears strong testimony to this fact. When man's innermost feelings as pity, grief, joy, wonder and love are stirred to their very depths, they naturally show themselves forth in measured and harmonious language which, apart from the sense of its distinct words, conveys by peculiar sounds alone the kind of