of whom was the famous Rishi Pulastya of the extreme south, from whom were descended Agastya, the Tamil Muni and Ravana king of South.

“The Satapata Brahmana, in which the story of Manu first occurs, does not mention the name of the Northern Mountains. However, there is ample evidence in the Puranic accounts to identify the Northern Mountains, with the Western Ghats, and the particular part on which the ark rested with Malapa.”¹

(8) “Many other nations mention, in the mythological part of their history, inundations which in their essential particulars, agree with the scriptural accounts of Noah's preservation. Hence many persons have inferred the universality of this inundation. To this, it has been replied that each nation localizes the chief events and actors as connected with itself, necessitating an Ararat, an ark and a Noah in each instance. Fohi in the Chinese mythology, Sotti vrata or Satyavrata in the Indian, Xisuthrus in the Chaldaean, Ogyges and Deucalion in the Greek, have each been recognized by many as the Noah of the sacred scriptures under a different name. Even the American Indians have a tradition of a similar deluge, and a renewal of the human race from the family of one individual. All these individuals are said by their respective nations to have been saved, and to have become a second father of mankind.”²

1.The Tamilian Antiquary by pandit D.Savariroyan, M.R.A.S
2. The New Popular Encyclopedia. Vol. Iv, p.325