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Vedic Sarasvathi Valley Culture From Dravida South

Kumarikandam map the sunken continet

Steeds that were all of the hue of the Atrusa flower bore a hundred and forty thousand principle car-warriors that followed that Sarangadhwaja, the king of the Pandyas. Mahabharatha 7.23

In return, Malayadhwaja pierced the son of Drona with a barbed arrow. Then Drona's son, that best of preceptors, smiling the while, struck Pandya with some fierce arrows, capable of penetrating into the very vitals and resembling flames of fire. Mahabharatha 8:20'

Add to this the Bhagavatham stating that the Ancestor of Lord Rama, Satyavrata Manu having migrated to North with two sons to establish a Kingdom in Ayodhya."

This is a clear indication of the culture from the South moved to North , to Sarasvati Valley and later Indus Valley.

Then there is the Tamil script being found in the Mohenjo-Daro.

One batch of migration from the south took place towards the Sarasvati .

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Independent Tamil Culture Myth

The Myth of an independent,secular(?) Dravidian Culture has been and is propagated.   Let us see whether the Statement that the Dravidian, more specifically the Tamil Culture was/is independent of Sanatana Dharma, on the basis of historical and archaeological evidence.…