The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c5.6

c5.6

¹ See *Tamil Studies*, pp. 193-5; Kanakasabhai (p. 52) no doubt much overrated the attainments of Dravidians (and traced them to China!) while Caldwell (*Comparative Grammar*, pp. 113-4) is nearer the truth. Dr. Slater's book on ‘Dravidian Elements’ betrays many signs of an utter misreading of the story of Indian culture. The attempted reconstruction of a pre-Aryan Tamil Polity before the days of Agastya has not been a success. See, however, Senāthi-Rāja in *J.R.A.S.*, 1887, pp. 558 ff. and the *Tamilian*