The first Pdiyan
king of the Lemurian Tamils built his capital Madurai which was also
the seat of the First Tamil Academy, on the banks of the river Pahui
at the southern extremity of the submerged continent. After the submergence
of the southern part of the continent, the Pdiyan
capital was moved to Alaivy (?), the
Kapapura of the Sanskrit literature,
which also became of the seat of the Second Tamil Academy, at the estuary
of the submerged river Kumari. After this river also went under the sea
along with the residuary portion of the ancient Pdiya
Ndu, modern Madurai came into existence
on the banks of the river Vaigai.
The Tamils who spread towards the north
became Dravidians by reason of their language having changed into Drvida.
A section of the Dravidians in their turn, slowly moved towards the north-west
upto Scandinavia and became Aryans and then gradually spread towards the
east and north east of Europe. It was a nomadic horde from the north-east
part of Europe, that entered India through Persia as the Vedic Aryans
or as their ancestors.
The Vedic Aryans possessed neither a literature
nor an alphabet at the time of their arrival. The Vedas were composed
in North India, and their language bears traces of having been largely
influenced by the then North-Indian vernaculars called Prk
its in Sanskrit.
As the Vedic language became dead on account
of the poor minority of its speakers, and its phonological and inflexional
over-development, and as the Vedic Aryans wanted to have a separate literature
in their name, they came into contact with the Tamilians, derived the
Grantha characters from the Tamil script, evolved the semi-artificial
literary dialect called Sanskrit out of the dead Vedic language and the
then regional languages of India called Prkits
in general, translated all Tamil technical literature into and reduced
to writing all unrecorded Tamilian arts in Sanskrit, and wrote grammars
of the Vedic language and Sanskrit, separate and combined, in imitation
of Tamil. But none of the translations was acknowledged to be such. All
were claimed to be original.
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