request for reading literature.

[Ashish Chandra]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, N. Ganesan wrote:
> On 28 Dec 1998, Ashish Chandra wrote:
> >> Could someone please suggest an old Tamilian/Dravidian scripture
> >> that talks of the flight from the North to the South
> >> after the "Aryan invasion". I
>
> N. S. Raja replied:
> *There isn't any such traditional literature
> *or belief.
>
>   Please check puRanAnURu, a Tamil sangam text. There is
>   a poem on tuvarApati vEL. (Dvarasamudhram in Karnataka?)
>   The poet praises him as a Vellala Chief who moved southward
>   from Dwaraka, about 40+ generations ago. The medieval
>   commentator says Vellalas moved from Dwaraka of Krishna
>   and the expedition was led by the Sage Agastya.

This doesn't sound like a "flight from the North to the South"-which is
what the original question asked about-does it?
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Yes, that was my intent i.e. to inquire whether there is any old Tamil
literature that talks of the forced flight of Dravidians from the North to
the South.

Thanks
Ashish