Silappadhikaram
(Literary Appreciation)
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Period and Place
Poompuhar Art Gallery
1.Period
With the available historical evidences the period of the epic is
understood to be between second and fifth century A.D.
Also, the historians fix the rule of the King Cheran Senguttuvan
the elder brother of the author Ilango Adigal to be between 170 to 195 A.D.
The writing of the epics Silappadhikaram and Manimekhalai during 180 A.D.
post-Tholkappium (350 B.C),
post-Sangam Literature (350 B.C-300 A.D )
and post-Thirukural (100 B.C ) period.
Here we should see the then port city Kaveri Poom Pattinam.
It means the place where river Kaveri enters the sea, Bay of Bengal
This place is in present District of Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu
known as Puhar or Poompuhar.
This was under the rule of Chola Kingdom
(present Thiruchirapalli) as their capital.
Puhar and Nagapattinam served as twin port towns
for their flourishing local and foreign trade.
Thanjavur was also a major town in the Chola Regime.
With the flow of perennial Kaveri river the kingdom was very fertile and
was called the “ rice bowl “ of the region.
2. Place
According to deep sea researcher Graham Hancock, the civilization
in this place is approximately more than 11 000 years old.
May be this is the first civilization known in the history.
Using latest gadgets in underwater and deep sea exploration,
side scan sonar research equipment, he has found 7 meter
below the sea, ruins of a well planned beautiful city.
It is astonishing revelation in Channel 4 TV.
May be some Tsunami type sea eruption
and land erosion has submerged the city subsequently.
Indian National Hydro-graphic Department (INHD)
National Institute Oceanography (NIO) Goa and
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
have confirmed these findings .
The civilization is more superior than Mesopotamians.
Puhar is the birth place of both Kovalan and Kannagi.
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