 In a 10th-century Tamil record of the Chola Dynasty, the Maldives are given the name " Munnir Palantivu Pannirayiram " ( twelve thousand islands and the ocean where three waters meet ) . Sulaiman was a Persian merchant and sea-captain who lived in the first half of the ninth century AD.
<fluency>  In a 10th-century Tamil record of the Chola Dynasty, the Maldives are given the name " Munnir Palantivu Pannirayiram " ( twelve thousand islands and the ocean where three waters meet ) . Sulaiman was a Persian merchant and sea-captain who lived in the first half of the ninth century AD.
 In a 10th-century Tamil record of the Chola Dynasty, the Maldives are given the name " Munnir Palantivu Pannirayiram ' twelve thousand islands and the ocean where three waters meet ) . Sulaiman was a Persian merchant and sea-captain who lived in the first half of the ninth century AD.