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Dancing Art, Dramaturgy, Medicine, Surgery, Alchemy, Physiology, Anatomy,
Sexual Science, Cosmetics, Toilet, Cookery, Painting, Carpenting, Ship-Building,
Metallurgy, Architecture, Sculpture, Mechanics, Economics, Politics, Technique
of City-Watching, Astronomy, Astrology, Palmistry, Pedology, Water-divining,
Treasure-hunting, Military Science relating to Boxing, Wrestling and Warfare,
Cock-fighting etc., etc., in addition to general and recreational literature
consisting of many major and minor epics, various species of panegyric
poems,erotica, devotional songs and dramas.
Vocational Arts such as Agriculture, Weaving,
Pottery and Fishery, and Black Arts such as Sorcery, Exorcism, Necromancy,
Conjury, Enchantment, Art of suspending the action of water, fire or wind,
and Binding wild beasts and poisonous creatures by spells, were being
practised hereditarily without being recorded.
Ancient Tamil Nadu was rich in wild medicinal
plants, whose parts were used as absorbe facients and able to unite broken
bones, and from which elixir was prepared. Experienced Tamilian physicians
were and are so proficient in the art of feeling the pulse, as to diagnose
even complicated diseases accurately and immediately.
There are still a few Tamilian wrestlers,
whose conversance with the nervous system enables them to make their opponents
swoon and die after the lapse of one and a half hours, if they are not
brought to their senses within that period.
The Lemurian Tamils were highly advanced
in the arts of Music and Dancing and the Sciences of Arithmetic and Astronomy.
The seven-day week, the thirty-day month
and the twelve-month year, which are in vogue all over the world, were
instituted by the Lemurian Tamils. The week-days were named after the
seven planets known to them. The lunar month was reckoned by the succession
of the bright and dark fortnights. The twelve months were named after
the twelve signs of the Zodiac. The year was computed by the succession
of the two courses of the sun, viz., northward and southward.
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