Template talk:Chola history
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The name 'Early Cholas' is an accepted name which can be found in authoritative books by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, particluarlyThe Colas and theHistory of South India. The Early Chola article quotes text from these and other books and articles.User:Sarvagnya has repetedly reverted this template to change the name to his POV. None of the books I have read and cited refer to the early cholas as 'mythical'. Although there are no archealogical evidence found, there is sufficient evidence that can be found in literature to substantiate thier classification as Early Cholas -Parthitalk/contribs06:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dont tamper with Tamil history by reasoning such nonsense and don't play with Tamil sentiments by calling our kings as mythical. You have no business to be here considering that you're not Tamil. It's my advice to you - Don't mess here. Karikala Chola was one of the greatest kings India ever had and you're not qualified to call him mythical. Better read some books first.Shritami17:18, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The crux of the problem seems to be the choice of the words to describe the Cholas of theSangam period. The two articles in questionsEarly Cholas and theLegendary Early Chola Kings, both record the names of the names of the earliest Chola kings. Both articles clearly document the fact that "...kings recorded for whom there is no verifiable historic evidence." The second article clearly denotes the names of kings dating back to around 3000 BCE are legendary and apocryphal. This article was created to clearly distinguish what is accepted in the historical and academic circles as to what is myth and what is history.
The Cholas documened in theEarly Cholas article cannot be classifed as 'mythical' because of the fact that the names of the kings found in the Sangam poetry are corroborated in later Chola epigraphy. While this on its own may not be accepted as historical proof, contemporary writing by Greek travellers and Roman merchants corroborate the descriptions of the Chola state found in the Sangam poetry. Asoka's edicts mention Cholas as one of the kingdom lying outside the mauryan empire.Historical method states that literary evidence is an acceptedprimary source. Moreover, some of the kings mentioned in the Sangam poetry are also found in the earliest epigrpahy found in Tamil Nadu.
The above reasons are why historians such as Prof. Basham and K.A.N. Sastri treated the early Chola kings such asKarikala Chola, etc as historical figures in their books rather than merely mythical.
