History of the Tamils: From the Earliest Times to 600 A.D. |
Contents
Introduction | li |
Chronology | lvi |
Fisherfolk | 11 |
Intercourse with North India in the early | 17 |
Foreign trade in early times | 36 |
Kennedy on Ancient trade | 42 |
Literary conventions and the life of the people | 63 |
The evolution of literary conventions | 69 |
Earliest Tamil poetry extant | 149 |
Life of the Tamil people 500 B C to 1 B C | 162 |
Foreign trade from 600 B C to 14 A D | 192 |
The first intrusion of Sanskrit culture | 207 |
The Three Tamil Sangams | 225 |
The first halfmillennium A D Life | 253 |
73 | 293 |
Foreign trade in the first half millen | 301 |
The five tribes in Northern India | 83 |
Foreign trade in the II Millennium B C | 96 |
The Rise of the Agamas | 103 |
North India and South India 1000 B C | 116 |
Foreign trade 1000500 B C | 129 |
North and South India 5001 B C | 135 |
The District of Kāñcipura | 322 |
Karikal | 334 |
Pallava? by K R Subrahmania Iyer | 383 |
Śōla kings after Karikāl | 406 |
Nalangilli | 417 |
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Agam Agama Agamika Agapporul Agastya Agattiyam Agattiyanar ancient Tamil anthologies Aryan Aryan culture Aryan ideas Aryas bards Bauddha beautiful became belonging Brahmanas bright called century A. D. chief coast colophons composed cult customs dance Dasyu described Dharma district drum dynasty early Tamil elephants flowers garland gods gold grammar Hence hill inscriptions Jaina Jātaka Kañci Karikal Karikal's Kaviri Kuravar Kurundogai land later legend literary lived lord Madura Mahabharata Manimegalai mantras Marudam mentioned monarch Mullai Nāgas Name of Book North Northern odes old Tamil Pallava Pandya Pāṇini passage pearls poems poets probably Puram Rāmāyaṇa referred region rites Roman royal Saiva Sangam Sanskrit says Schoff's Periplus scholars Silappadigāram Siva Sōla South India Tamil country Tamil kings Tamil literature Tamil poetry Telugu temple Tolkappiyam Tolkappiyanar town trade tree tribe Trilocana Vaidika Vaisnava Veda Vedic VII century village Visnu Warmington word worship yavanas தன்ன மகளிர்