the tamil revivalists insisted that the first two tamil sangams (literary academies) were not mythical, and happened in the kumari kandam era. while most tamil revivalists did not enumerate or list the lost sangam works, some came up with their names, and even listed their contents. in 1903, suryanarayana sastri named some of these works as "mutunarai", "mutukuruku", "mapuranam" and "putupuranam". in 1917, abraham pandithar listed three of these works as the world's first treatises of music: "naratiyam", "perunarai" and "perunkuruku". he also listed several rare musical instruments such as the thousand-stringed lute, which had been lost to the sea. devaneya pavanar printed an entire list of the submerged books. others listed books on a wide range of topics, including medicine, martial arts, logic, painting, sculpture, yoga, philosophy, music, mathematics, alchemy, magic, architecture, poetry, and wealth. since these works had been lost to the sea, the kumari kandam proponents insisted that no empirical proof could be provided for their claims.