the first map to visualize lemuria as an ancient tamil territory was published by s. subramania sastri in 1916, in the journal "centamil". this map was actually part of an article that criticized the pseudohistorical claims about a lost continent. sastri insisted that the lost land mentioned in adiyarkunallar's records was barely equivalent to a taluka (not larger than a few hundred square miles). the map depicted two different versions of kumari kandam: that of sastri, and that of a. shanmugam pillai (see above). the lost land was depicted as a peninsula, similar to the present-day indian peninsula.