Na Parthasarathy

Kapadapuram Na Parthasarathy

Kayal is a very ancient place. Five thousand years ago, it was the capital of second Tamil Sangam, called Kapadapuram. According to historians, Kapadapuram was very close to Tiruchendur. Kapadapuram was also known as Alaiwaiport. Abraham Pandithar says that Greeks in those days named it as Periplus port. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, in his book Discovery of India mentioned that Madurai was the capital of Pandiyan Kingdom and Kayal their port. Kuadam (also known as Kua or more popularly Kapadapuram) was the capital of the ancient Pandian kingdom of the Meen'Koodal epoch (the second Sangam academy). The grand old poet and sage Nakkeerar and the Iraiyanaar porul'urai mentions that Kuadam was the capital from c.5400 BCE to c.1750 BCE (about 3650 years). According to historians, Kuadam was very close to Tiruchendur. Abraham Pandithar says that Greeks in those days named it as Periplus port. Around 1750 BCE, the last great deluge flooded Kuadam and the remaining part of the Kumari kandam forever (similar to the Biblical record of "the flood" sometime between 3402 BC and 2462 BC). Kuadam was to the north of the ancient Paqruli river about 700 kaadham south of the Kumari river delta.