The Tamilian Antiquary AN OLD TRADITION PRESERVED Volume Vol. 2, No.1

About the Book:-There were many wonders in the world, they say, such as the pyramids of Egypt, the leaning tower of Pisa, the floating islands of Mexico and the hanging gardens of Babylon. As monuments of human skill and ingenuity, perseverance and energy in the field of architecture, they have always occupied a foremost place in the estimation of civilized man. India has been considered the land of wonders. Its literature is the oldest in the world and its philosophy the most profound in more respects than one. The problems it presents in the field of philology are still more wonderful, embracing, as they do, a field as large as a hundred languages and dialects, yet divided only into two great distinct and separate families called the Southern and the Northern or the Tamilian and the Aryan languages. An old tradition that has been preserved to their day in some of the classical works in this language locates the beginning of its cultivation in the hoary past, far beyond the times when the ancestors of the primitive Aryans set foot on the frontiers of the Punjab, nay, when the Cimmerian nomads were wandering after their flocks and herds in the highlands of Central Asia. Volume Eleven has a collection of various articles, the list of which are: an old tradition preserved, a note on the Sangam periods, the antiquity of Nanjinad and Shenkottah (two Tamil districts of Travancore), Sage Pavanandhi, Dravidian coins, the Kural, a chapter from the Kural, the Tamils in the epic age, Lanka and the Tamil Sangams and Pandiyan coins. This volume has four plates. About the Author:-V.J. Tambi Pillai was an Indian born author, translator and compiler from South India. He is mostly remembered for his outstanding contribution in history and literature. He is the author of --An old tradition preserved (T. A. –vol 2 pt 1). The Title 'The Tamilian Antiquary AN OLD TRADITION PRESERVED written/authored/edited by V. J. Tamby Pillai, Pandit D. Savariroyan', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121245739 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 121 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English, TAMIL. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:- Vol. 2, No.1