About the Book:-While preparing the script of Agastya in the Tamil Land, the author delved deep to highlight the facts in a chronological order. Accordingly, no tradition is so widespread throughout the length and breadth of the Tamil country as that concerning great sage Agastya and his numerous exploits. Of all the mythic, semi-historic and historic personages on the Aryan annals, who have figured in South Indian History, Agastya has occupied the foremost place and secured the largest homage of the cultured and the masses alike? He meets us from the start of Aryan history, being a composure of certain hymns of the earliest of the Vedas, the Rig Veda. Still he seems to have been not included amongst the seven holy sages, the Prajapatis, or the progenitors of the human race. This circumstance may lend some colour of support to the doubt whether Agastya is not after all the sage of a later day. The book contains 24 chapters and immensely good for common readers. About the Author:-K. Narayana Sivaraja Pillai was an Indian historian, dravidologist and professor from the erstwhile Madras Presidency. When the Tamil Department of the Oriental Research Institute of the University of Madras was established in 1927, Sivaraja Pillai was appointed Reader with E. V. Anantharama Aiyar and K. Varadarajulu Naidu as the fellows. In 1930, when the department was reorganized Sivaraja Pillai was made Senior Lecturer. Pillai retired in 1936.Sivaraja Pillai stressed on analysis of historicity of tradition in the study of ancient Tamil history. In his 1932 book, Chronology of the Ancient Tamils, he said: .venerable as the Sangam tradition in the Tamil land first put into shape by the commentator on [Iraiyanar Akapporul] and sedulously propagated by later commentators, we have to examine it closely and satisy ourselves first about its authenticity and secondly for its evidentiary value for the purposes of history. He was regarded as a pioneer of the study of ancient verbal terminations. The Title 'Agastya In The Tamil Land written/authored/edited by K. N. Sivaraja Pillai', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121244916 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 100 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English, Tamil. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
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