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     The change of l into ˜ or is very common in derivation.
e. g. kal (black) - ka˜ (black) - kƒ˜-kƒ˜am (blackness)- kƒ˜agam (blackness). mal - mƒl (blackness, black cloud) - ma˜ai (black cloud, raiŒ: kil (to dig) -k…‰ (to dig, to tear)-ki˜ (to dig, to undermine). pol (to bore) - po (to bore) - p†‰ (to bore, to cleave).

     The name Chra properly šra, is derviced from the word šƒral, ‘mountain-slope’. The lord of a hilly country is often called šƒral nƒdan in classical poetry. The whole of the original Chra territory, whose area still remains undiminished for the most part, though broken up politically into several parts, lying north and south and traversed by the Western Ghats almost throughout the whole length is a long slope on either side of the mountain range.

     Hence, the Chra King seems to have been originally called šaralan, ‘the lord of the sloping country’, which name subsequently changed by a single vowel change into šralƒn, and then by syncope became šran and ultimately by a further mutation šral. All these alterations are quite in accordance with the recognized laws of phonetic or verbal change.

13.Circumstances that obscure the greatness of Tamil
   
1. Lemuria, the original home of the Tamilians, is submerged entirely.
   
2. All the pre-Aryan Tamil literature has been destroyed, and the earliest Tamil literature extant is either suppressed or misinterpreted.
   
3. The literary and colloquial dialects of Tamil have been adulterated to a great extent, during the post-Academic period.
   
4. The true history of ancient Tamil Nadu written by the late P.T. Srinivasa Iyengar, V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar and K.G. Sesha Iyengar, is not yet recognized, popularised and propagated.