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the enemies of your cousin,* and you have now conquered 

 Arya princes. Is your warlike spirit not content? May 

 you live as many years as there are grains of sand on the 

 banks of your beloved river Porunai. But will one's life be 

 everlasting ? It is well within your own knowledge how 

 soon youth passes away, since your hair is gray and you are 

 getting old and infirm. And yet without desiring to walk 

 in the path of Aram (the law) you are still intent on 

 the path of Maram f (darkness). Cease then your anger and 

 perform, with your queen, the Raja SuyayagaJ without delay. ,r 

 Thereupon the king released the Arya princes, and desired 

 his minister Yillavankotai to treat them as befitted their 

 rank until the forthcoming religious ceremonies were over,, 

 and to send them back to their country. He gave directions 

 for the construction of a temple to the goddess Pattini,§ and 

 on its completion was present at its consecration, together 

 with Kanaka and Vijaya, the Arya princes, and Konkar and 

 Malwa and other princes, and Gaja Bahu, "king of sea-girt 

 Ceylon." 



In my Paper on " Chilappatikaram " I stated that the Gaja 

 Bahu referred to was Gaja Bahu I., who reigned in Ceylon 

 between 113-135 of the years of Christ. This has now been 



* Karikala's grandson. This battle with the Chola princes took place 

 at Nerivayil, after the conquest of Viyalur ; see pp. 473, 474, 481, 

 " Chilappatikaram." The defeat and death of the nine Chola princes is 

 also mentioned in Padittuppattu V. : — 



Arach-cheruvit cholar kudikkuriyor 

 Onpatinpar Uilavayit purattiruttu. 

 f There is an old proverb which Appar, alias Tirunavukkarasu, contem- 

 porary of Jnana Sambandhar, mentions in one of his Devarams : — 

 Aramirukka maram vilaikkuk-kondavare. 

 " When Aram is to be acquired easily, how foolish to seek Maram with 

 one's best efforts." Adiyarkkunallar gives Sanskrit hita and ahita as 

 equivalents of aram and raram respectively. 



% A religious sacrifice or ceremony performed by a supreme sovereign. 



§ I.e., Kannaki, wife of Kovalan, who lost his life at Madura. Of. page 81 

 et seq., Journal, vol. XIII., R. A. Society, Ceylon, in which an error has 

 to be corrected. Instead of " Kannakai " read " Kannaki," in this as well 

 as in page 148 of the same volume. 



