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The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.21

The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.21

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¹ K. G. Sankara Aiyar, in 'The Age of the Third Tamil Sangam' (*J. Mythic Soc.*, 1917) prefers A. D. 154–76—anyhow the second half of the second century A. C. The same author puts the third Sangam about the same time, which seems reasonable. dated Tiruvallava in the third century (*Folk Songs of Southern India*, p. 217). See *Ancient India*, by S. K. Aiyangar, ch. xiv; 'The Augustan Age of Tamil Literature'; Dr. J. Lazarus on the *Kural* in *Tam. Ant.*, vol. ii (1913), pp. 53–72, and various other papers in vol. i of the same periodical.