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Literature is in other countries the bed-rock of history, in India it is often a snare.

— K. A. Nilakanta Sastri

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The oldest works now available in Dravidian were written long after their contact with Aryan culture and can afford no clear guidance to the pre- Aryan state of Dravidian culture.

There does not exist a single line of Tamil literature written before the Tamils came into contact with, and let us add accepted with genuine appreciation, the Indo-Aryan culture of North Indian origin.

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