in 1956, k. a. nilakanta sastri described the kumari kandam theory as "all bosh", stating that geological theories about events happening millions of years ago should not be connected to the human history of a few thousand years back. historian n. subrahmanian, writing in 1966, described the lemuria myth as the most characteristic example of "anti-history" in tamil nadu. he noted that these myths persisted in the minds of tamil people despite modern education. according to him, the land lost to sea, as described in the ancient tamil legends, was a small area comparable to a present-day district, and submerged around 5th or 4th century bce.