LONG HISTORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
The Tamils have a long history of achievement; sea travel, city ife
and commerce seem to have developed early. Tamil trade with Greeks and
Romans is verified by literary, linguistic and archaelogical evidence.
MIL TON B. SINGER.
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HIGH DEGREE OF MATERIAL CIVILISATION
Tamils states of the far South became wealthy and prosper us in virtue
of their valuable foreign trade, and attained a high de ice of material
civilisation at an early period.
VINCENT SMITH
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EXTENSIVE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
when the Aryans passed the Afghan passes, India was inhabited by a dark
short statured, but civilised race called the D?avidians. These Dravidians
had intensive commercial relations with Babylon, Phoenicia, and the countries
beyond the Arabian sea.
MP. LOHANA.
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GREEK, ARAB TRADE WITH TAMILAKAM
The names of the last two subject Kapim and Tukim
as found in Hebrew Bible are the same as those still used in Tamil, i.e.
Kavi and Tokai. Subsequently the Arabs, and Greeks appear to have keep
up the trade with Tamilakam. The Greek names for rice (Oryza) Gin ger (zingiber)
and Chinnamon (Karpion) are almost identical with their Tainil names arrisis,
inchiver, merchants conveyed these ar tides and other names to Europe from
Tamil Land.
V. KANAGASABAI
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TAMIL COMMERCE
There is an interesting Tamil inscription of 1088 A.D. which ~ers to
a Corporafion of the Fifleen Hundred. This was appar ntly a union oftraders
who were described in it as brave men, born ) wander over many countries
ever since the beginning of the Krita ge, penetrating the regions of the
six continents by land and water ,utes, and dealing in various articles
such as horses, elephants, pre bus stones, perfumes, and drugs, either
wholesale or in retail.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
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DIRECT EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT TRADE
Direct evidence of ancient commercial relation between
India nd the West has recently been found in heiroglyphic texts of sev
nteentli century For the word Kapi-apc-which occurs in Kings 22 in the
form of QOF (Greek) is found in these Egyptian texts in le form ofKapu.
WEBER.
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PRE ARYAN TRADE
At the time of the Ophir voyage, when Solomon sent ships to India for
ivory, apes and peacodks, there were as yet no Aryans in southern India,
for the name of apes, in Hebrew, QOF and in sknt,~kapi cannot be an Aryan
word. It first comes to hand in the latest book of the Rig Veda but also
appears in the form of QOF as early as the IV Dynasty in Egypt and the
name for peacocks, "tuki" has been borrowed from the Malabar togai.
HISTORIANS HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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SEA TRADERS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
About the year 680 B.C. the sea traders of the Indian Ocean founded
around the present Gulf ofKaro-tohu a colony which they called Langa-ga
or Langa-ya.
PROF~JEIR'ANDE LA COUPERIC
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