The story of the Aryan Sage Agastya's coming down to the South to equalise the southern hemisphere with the northern, in the tilted scale of the heavenly balance, caused by the overweight of the eighteen classes of celestial hosts assembled on Mount Kailash, on the occasion of Siva's marriage with Malaimaga˜ (Pƒrvati), and his suppresion of Vindhya mountains on his way, are nothing but mythological representation of the facts, that the level of Gondwana land was high at the southern end because of the existence of the Kumari Mountain Range, and low at the northern end because of the Himalayas lying then under the Sea, and that the situation was reversed after the emergence of the Himalayas and the submergence of the Kumari Mountains, and that the Vindhyan Range became consequently comparatively small.

     The word The‹mo‰i, the alternate name of Tamil, is a relative term indirectly suggestive of the indigenous nature of the Tamil language. Tamil was called Thenmo‰i in relation to Sanskrit, which was called Vadamo‰i, the northern language.

     The term Thenmo‰i, was originally used in a wider sense as an equivalent of the newly-coined ‘Tamilican’, when the Dravidian languages had not branched off from Tamil and remained only as dialects.

     Deified souls of departed ancestors are called in Tamil Thenpular or Thenpulattƒr or Thenpula Vƒ‰nar, ‘the manes, as living in the south.’ The daily offering of libations to the manes is called Thenpulattƒr V„˜vi. These expressions are enough to show that Lemuria was the original home of the Tamilicans.

     The proverbial custom of a KuŠava husband having a dose of puerperal medicine on behalf of his wife, is a relic of the primitive custom of couvade, practised in Lemuria and South Africa.

      “The Indo-African-Austral origin of the Dravidians has its supporters in Messrs. Keane and Morris. Tamilian traditions say