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Post by Kayalvizhi Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:55 pm

"It was most probably from Tamilakam that, during the reign of Solomon (about BC 1000) "once in every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory, apes and peacocks." The names of the last two objects Kapim and Tukimas found in the Hebrew Bible are the same as those still used in Tamil, that is, Kavi and Thokai." - V. Kanakasabhai

(From a series of articles "The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago" that were published in Madras Review between 1895 and 1901. It was later published in book form in 1904. The South India Saiva Sidhanta Works, Chennai, Tamilnadu republished the book in 1966 with a forward by former Madras State Education Minister C. Subramaniam)

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