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APPENDIX D.
MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SANGAM
CHRONOLOGY.
[This was contributed by me to the Vizianagram Maharaja's College Magazine, 1922 July number, and with kind permission is now reprinted.]
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It is a great pity that in spite of several Sangam years of critical discussion, the date of the when were famous Tamil Sangam should still remain What was undetermined. On this account, the history employed? of the Peninsular India up to the 9th century A.D. continues to be a tangled tale of brilliant guesses. The assertion of certain scholars, that they have incontrovertibly determined the age of the famous Madura Academy, is at best a pardonable boast. Under the title "The Sangam Age," the present writer has recently contributed to the 66 Hindu " three articles wherein the conflicting theories in connection with this vexed question had been examined in detail. The object of this note is to press as further evidence of the later origin of the Sangam two facts not mentioned before.
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The illustrious author of The Tamils: Eigh- Sangam Age get teen Hundred years ago' has mentioned that in undetermined.
