History of the Tamils: From the Earliest Times to 600 A.D.

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Asian Educational Services, 2001 - India - 635 pages
 

Contents

CHAP PAGE
xiv
Foreign trade from 600 B C to 14 A D 192
xlvi
Introduction
li
The geographical basis of the ancient culture
1
The descrtdweller
8
Where the evolution first took place
14
Foreign trade in early times
36
Rama and South India c 2000 В С
44
North and South India 5001 B C
135
Candragupta and South India
142
Earliest Tamil poetry extant
149
Life of the Tamil people 500 B C to 1 B C
162
The first intrusion of Sanskrit culture
207
The Three Tamil Sangams
225
The first halfmillennium A D Life
253
Foreign trade in the first half millen
301

Y The culture of the Tamils during II Millen
63
The Bharata battle
85
Foreign trade in the II Millennium B C
96
The Rise of the Agamas
103
North India and South India 1000 В С
116
Varnas
122
Foreign trade 1000500 В С
129
Trade in mineral products
307
Roman military engines in South India
313
Roman trade after the death of Nero
320
Karikāl
334
Pallava? by K R Subrahmania Iyer
383
Śāla kings after Karikāl
406
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