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[N. 8.] 
king. The capital and the king are then described (vv. 36-60), 
Then the love message and the pangs of her sufferings the wind is 
asked to communicate to the fewa (vv. 61-100). The last four 
stanzas are personal or benedictive. 
Interesting ie ee details are furnished in her deserip- 
Geographical tion of the wind’s journey (vv. 8-36). The 
Details. ones starts from the Maleva, x. 8), the 
hill-range forming the eastern boundary of Travancore. ross- 
ing the valleys at the foot of the Malaya, it will go to Panda-dega, 
with its capital Uraga-pura or Bhujaga- 
Pandya-dega. pura (v. 10) on the bank of th the 4 Tinta tperss 
(+ 8). Pdanda-deca or the cantons: of the Pandyas is comprised 
in the modern Districts of Tinnevelly and Madura with S. Tx ravan- 
core ; ; Tinnevelly itself stands on the left bank of the river Tamra- 
parni. The Pa eedaee are known from very agi ipa Capito men- 
The wind will then pal oy the Baaee of Rama which oor 
like an arm of the earth extended Ss the Lanka-dvipa (vy. 10); 
and here lies the god Ramegvara (v.11). This refers, of course, 
to the Adam’s Bridge and the well-known temple of Ramegvara, 
described to be one of the twelve /yotir ane 
e wind next proceeds to Kancz, the ornament of the 
South (v. 12), the wiital of the Cola ladies 
Colas. v. 14). Kaiiet or Conjeeveram is one of the 
Sere cities of lode a, being mentioned in Patafjali’s Mahabhasya ; 
e the Colas have been named in the rock Edicts of Asoka, and 
wits vee - Ratyayans. At the time the poet wrote, the Colas 
were the most powerful in the South, having been raised to that 
Sie 16). ; "The river eae. ‘which fertilises the 
Cola co flows past the great temple of Crirahgam. The 
Reels a is identifiable with the west coast from N. Travancore 
0 Gokarna i sore. Kerala was known 6 Pataijali, and 
18 apparently the same as Kerala-putra of Asoka’s rock 8 
thus gone through the southern half of e 
Malyavan Mt. bes will next see the Malyatanta moun- 
a 18), and Pavicipsara the..tank of 
Masyakarni Rsi (v. ie oth these names are well known from 
Ramayana.! aloo is amped the central pia of the 
Ree re eee > 
: Ramayana 3. 11. 11-12; Rowhnvasng, 
Milgecésts, see Ramayan 98. . ‘The difference between 
For 
esas talent and poetical genius ie re well seen by cemparing the 
