[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c12.7 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c12.7 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c12.7 - **Language:** English ### [c12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12.7) Doubtless what has survived is only a part of the much vaster literature of these remote times. An inscription of the early tenth century A.D. mentions among the achievements of the early Pāndyas the translation of the \*Mahābhārata\* into Tamil and the establishment of a Sangam at Madura. This translation has been lost, though poems composed by \*Perundēvanār\* who sang the \*Bhāratam\* form the invocations placed at the beginning of six out of the eight anthologies named above. Parts of a Tamil \*Bhāratam\* by a Perundēvanār have come down to us, but the author was a contemporary of Nandivarman III Pallava (ninth century A.D.) and probably different from his namesake of the Sangam anthologies. - [Previous: c12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12.6) - [Next: c12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12.8) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Nāṭyaveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.bharata.natyaveda) — Brahmasūri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c12.7) · Pramāṇa