வரலாறு அறிதலின் வரலாறு
A couple of nuggests from Dr. V.Rajesh's, Manuscripts, Memory and History: Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2013 “It is scarcely possible to conceive a greater confusion than that which prevails with reference to the question of the age of Sambhanda. Mr.Taylor places Kun Pandya, and therefore Sambandha also, who converted him, about 1320 B.C., while Dr.Caldwell contends he was reigning in 1292 A.D. Thus it would appear possible to assign Sambandha to 1300 B.C. or A.D. indifferently! This is certainly curious: and I am not sure if we can find the like of it in the whole range of history. Indeed, it would seem that South Indian chronology has yet to begin its existence. We have not, in fact, as yet a single important date in the ancient history of the Dravidians ascertained and placed beyond the pale of controversy. …… A critical study of (the classical) dialect and of this literature would certainly, under ordinary ...