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Theres ambiguous separation between the words on the picture. It reads phonetically as "MugayatheenPak Udaya Kappal Mani". The translation is spot on. Source: I'm a native speaker from Tamil Nadu.
Interesting. There has to be more evidence of other nations discovering Australia and New Zealand before the ones mentioned in our history books. Nearer to me, the Tiwi islands just off the coast of North Australia have unearthed jade figurines and artifacts that seem to originate from China or another Asian country, which date back to before the time of Captain Cook. Update: Article on early Chinese explorers reachi…
Was Australia a part of Indian subcontinent back then?
Am I missing some context here? How is this related to HN?
Science. Exploration. Discovery. Stretching the limits. Challenging common belief patterns... - all things that intelligent people, and those with a creative bent enjoy discussing among like minded colleagues.
Interesting. There has to be more evidence of other nations discovering Australia and New Zealand before the ones mentioned in our history books. Nearer to me, the Tiwi islands just off the coast of North Australia have unearthed jade figurines and artifacts that seem to originate from China or another Asian country, which date back to before the time of Captain Cook. Update: Article on early Chinese explorers reachi…
Edited. Was Australia a part of Indian subcontinent back then?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Science. Exploration. Discovery. Stretching the limits. Challenging common belief patterns... - all things that intelligent people, and those with a creative bent enjoy discussing among like minded colleagues.
Bullshit bingo creative edition. URL says "Hacker News", not "Ancient history wikipedia reposts".
Theres ambiguous separation between the words on the picture. It reads phonetically as "MugayatheenPak Udaya Kappal Mani". The translation is spot on. Source: I'm a native speaker from Tamil Nadu.
So am I. I was surprised when it said some of the characters were in Old/Archaic Tamil but I could read the characters fairly clearly.
Fascinating. I'm from Tamilnadu (where Tamil is spoken in southern most part of India) and so far we have only heard of early day explorations so far as current singapore, malaysia, cambodia etc. This news is really interesting.
Tamil is over 2000 years old and it is fascinating to see how the script has changed from back then to now.