Q. According to Strabo, the Tamil kingdom to first send emissaries to meet Augustin in Athens in 20 BC, was
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The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown antiquity. Pandyas were one of the three ancient Tamil kingdoms (Chola and Chera being the other two) that ruled the Tamil country from pre-historic times until end of the fifteenth century.
The Pandyan empire was home to temples including Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, and Nellaiappar Temple built on the bank of the river Thamirabarani in Tirunelveli.
The first-century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus met, at Damascus, the ambassador sent by an Indian king “named Pandion or, according to others, Porus” to Caesar Augustus around 13 C.E.
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