Timeline of Chapter 5
South
Cultural/political events Religious events
BCE
100 1st Early Tamil inscriptions/ Buddhists/Jains in Sri Lanka
script
1stBCE– Trade with Greeks
1stCE and Romans in south
CE
200 Pre-Hindu religious orientation
300 2nd–3rd Tamil Can.kam(poetic 1st–3rd Jains, Buddhists, brahmans
“academy”) filtering into the south
c. 300 Early Pa ̄n.t.iyan ̄s in
Maturai
400 4th Kat.ampa era founded
500 c. 550 First Ca ̄ lukya dynasty
founded
600 7th–9th Heyday of Pallava 7th–9th Tamil bhaktimovement
dynasty
700 7th First permanent stone temples in
Tamil land (Pallava)
800 850–1267 Co ̄l ̄a era (Ka ̄ve ̄ ri basin) 8th S ́an.kara
900
c. 973 Second Ca ̄ lukya dynasty
1000 11th S ́aiva Siddha ̄ nta articulated Co ̄l ̄a
influence in SE Asia
11th–13th Co ̄l ̄a bronzes and temples
1100
1137 Death of Ra ̄ma ̄nuja
1200 c. 1216 Return of Pa ̄n.t.iyan
̄
s
(Maturai) 12th–14th Continued compilation of
Pura ̄n.as, A ̄gamas, Ta ̄ lapura ̄n.as