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75 Nădu—v. tr—1. To seek, enquire after, pursue - . To examine, investigate To desire earnestly To know, understand To resemble

To measure To reach, approach To think, consider

To scent as dogs

v. intr- To be measured rt - 1. Country, district, province Locality, situation Earth, land World Kingdom, state Rural tracts . Open place, room, space, area 8. Side, region, quarter 9. A very large number 1 0. Agricultural tract The above-noted meanings will certainly reveal exhilaratingly the appropriateness of the two words Akam and Nādu in denoting a home-land. - 1.2.4. But an intelligent person may raise a tiklish question: why the expression “Tamil Nädu’ as such has not even a solitary occurrence in Sañgam poetry although nādu has nearly a hundred references therein.” I consider this very significant because I am of the opinion that the concept of a linguistic state or a single united nation must have been very vague in the beginning. And that it should have tried to take firm roots only during the end of the age of Sañgam anthologies is evident from the references” to *Tamiị nāɖu’ in Silappadikāram. A specific reason for that might have been the conflict between north & south which is an important aspect of subject-matter dealt in the third & final canto of Silappadikaram. Further, more references" are found in Silap