Lumeria(continent) kumari kandam the last pandian kingdom immersed under sea before 9000bc

The Lost Continent of Kumari Kandam.

Tamil epics, written in the first century makes frequent references to a vast tract of country called "Kumari Nadu" now identified as Lemuria or Gondwanaland extending far beyond the present Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of modern India, lying submerged in the Indian Ocean. It is said that ancient Madurai was the seat of the Tamil literary Academy and Kavatapuram or Muthoor was the capital of the Pandyan Kingdom.

The Tamil commentators mention the submersion of the two rivers Kumari and Pahroli in 'familkam. Ancient epics state that the distance between these two rivers was about 7000 miles and that it was divided into 'Thahga, Madurai, Munpalai, Pinpalai, Kunra, Kunakkarai, and Kurumparai Nadus or States, each containing seven Nadus, or 49 in all. The country was interspersed with mountains with a bewildering variety of flora and fauna of a bygone age. Peninsular India extended from Kanya Kumari, forming a sprawling continent touching Africa in the West, Australia in the south and occupying a large portion of the Indian Ocean. From 30,000 B.C. to 2,700 B.C. natural cataclysmic landslips occurred as a result of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which periodically affected the surface of the earth and the ocean beds. As the continent of Lemuria was sinking in the western portion, people migrated to Asia, Nile Valley, Australia and the lands of the Pacific forming Mu. The Lemurians also colonized North and South America formed the continent of Atlantis and Inca civiliasation.

Migration of the populace began in the year 30,000 B.C. Earthquakes, sinking of the land and volcanic eruptions were inundating the land. Vast racts of land were disappearing into the sea. Migration was in all directions. To Australia, are the present day Aborigines, colonized North and South America In Asia the Nile Valley. The Egytians have their first migration from Lemuria and much later from Atlantis.

The ruby was mined of the mountain Mani Malia and gold from Mount Meru.The gold was used in the temples. The mountain range had forty eight high peaks. Precious stones were mined by chinese labourers. Ancient Chinese cronicles confirmed the mass of labourers working in the Pandya Kingdom. Lemuria in Tamil nationalist mysticist literature, connecting Madagascar, South India and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean). Mount Meru stretches southwards from Sri Lanka. The distance from Madagascar to Australia is about 4,200 miles

Kumari Kandam or Lemuria is the name of a supposed sunken landmass referred to in existing ancient Tamil literature. It is said to have been located in the Indian Ocean, to the south of present-day Kanyakumari district at the southern tip of India.

There are scattered references in Sangam literature, such as Kalittokai 104, to how the sea took the land of the Pandiyan kings, upon which they conquered new lands to replace those they had lost. There are also references to the rivers Pahruli and Kumari, that are said to have flowed in a now-submerged land. The Silappadhikaram, a 5th century epic, states that the cruel sea took the Pandiyan land that lay between the rivers Pahruli and the mountainous banks of the Kumari, to replace which the Pandiyan king conquered lands belonging to the Chola and Chera kings (Maturaikkandam, verses 17-22). Adiyarkkunallar, a 12th century commentator on the epic, explains this reference by saying that there was once a land to the south of the present-day Kanyakumari, which stretched for 700 kavatam from the Pahruli river in the north to the Kumari river in the south. As the modern equivalent of a kavatam is unknown, estimates of the size of the lost land vary from 1,400 miles (2,300 km) to 7,000 miles (11,000 km) in length, to others suggesting a total area of 6-7,000 square miles, or smaller still an area of just a few villages.

This land was divided into 49 nadu, or territories, which he names as seven coconut territories (elutenga natu), seven Madurai territories (elumaturai natu), seven old sandy territories (elumunpalai natu), seven new sandy territories (elupinpalai natu), seven mountain territories (elukunra natu), seven eastern coastal territories (elukunakarai natu) and seven dwarf-palm territories (elukurumpanai natu). All these lands, he says, together with the many-mountained land that began with KumariKollam, with forests and habitations, were submerged by the sea.Two of these Nadus or territories were supposedly parts of present-day Kollam and Kanyakumari districts.

None of these texts name the land Kumari Kandam or Kumarinadu, as is common today. The only similar pre-modern reference is to a Kumari Kandam , which is named in the medieval Tamil text Kantapuranam either as being one of the nine continents, or one of the nine divisions of India and the only region not to be inhabited by barbarians. 19th and 20th Tamil revivalist movements, however, came to apply the name to the territories described in Adiyarkkunallars commentary to the Silappadhikaram. They also associated this territory with the references in the Tamil Sangams, and said that the fabled cities of southern Madurai and Kapatapuram where the first two Sangams were said to be held were located on Kumari Kandam.