Kumari Kandam: The Lost Cradle of Tamil Civilization”

Kumari Kandam is a legendary sunken continent believed to have
existed south of present-day India, in the Indian Ocean. Rooted
deeply in ancient Tamil literature and mythology, it is described
as a vast and advanced landmass where Tamil civilization thrived
long before any known historical records.





According to Sangam texts and later Tamil traditions, Kumari
Kandam was the seat of the first Tamil Sangam (academy of poets
and scholars), and home to wise kings, sages, and divine beings.
It is believed to have submerged due to a great deluge (akin to
the global flood myths) and is often linked with Lemuria, a
now-discredited 19th-century scientific theory proposing a lost
continent to explain similarities in fauna across India,
Madagascar, and Africa.