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     The whole of South India upto V„Œgada malai or Tirupati Hills in the North, constituted Tamil Nadu during the age of the Third Academy, which is said to have begun in the 5th century B.C. and lasted upto the 4th century A.D.

     Kanarese seems to have separated from Tamil only after the 7th century A.D. as Kumarila Bhatta of that century styles the whole of the Dravidian family of Languages ‘Andhra Dravida Bhasha’. Malayalam began to branch off much later, i.e., after the 12th century A.D., and the other Dravidian languages of South India still much later.

     Telugu was the first recognized Dravidian language other than Tamil, and hence the name Vadugu, corruption of ‘Vadagu’ the Northern language, given to it by the Tamilians.

     It may be recalled, that once the whole of cis-Vindhyan India was considered to be Dravida Nadu, and accordingly, Mahƒrƒshtri and Gujarƒti were classed with Tamil, Telugu, and Kanarese, as Dravidian languages, and the whole group called ‘Panca Dravida’ by the North Indian scholars. It was no misnomer, as recent philological researches point to the probability of such a situation.