History of the Tamils: From the Earliest Times to 600 A.D. |
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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Agam Agamas Agamika Agastya ancient Tamil anthologies Aryan Aryan culture Aryas Aryavartta bards Bauddha became belonging Brahmanas called century A. D. chief coast colophons composed cult customs dancing Dasyu described Dharma dialect districts dynasty earliest early Tamil elephants fact flowers garland gods gold grammar Hence hill inscriptions Jaina Jataka Kalabhra Kāñci Karikal Kaviri Krsna Kuravar Kurinji land later legend lived lord Madura Mahābhārata mantras Marudam means mentioned Mullai Nāgas Name of Book Neydal North Northern odes old Tamil Pallava Pandya Panini passage pearls poems poets probably Puram Raksasas Rama Rama's Ramayana Ravana referred region rites Roman royal Saiva Sangam Sanskrit says Schoff's Periplus scholars Senguttuvan Sera Silappadigāram Śiva Śivan Sõla South India Sūtras Tamil country Tamil kings Tamil literature Tamil poetry temple tinai Tolkāppiyam trade tradition tree tribe Trilocana Vaidika Vaisnava Veda Vedic VII century village Vindhyas Visnu Warmington word worship