Interiors of a resto bar in Kerala with men sitting in it.
The name Kerala is pronounced Keralam in the local language, Malayalam. Two thousand years ago, one of three states in the region was called ''Cheralam'' in Classical Tamil. The leading native Malayali linguist and historian of the language, K. M. George, concurred with previously published beliefs that 'Chera' and 'Kera' are variants of the same word. A 3rd-century BCE rock inscription by north Indian emperor Asoka the Great references Kerala as Keralaputra. The Graeco-Roman trade map Periplus Maris Erythraei references Kerala's Chera territory as Cerobothra.
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