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snake-bite. This miracle is mentioned in the "Tiruvilayadat 

 Puranam,"* as also by Sekkilar in " Periyapuranam," written 

 in the eleventh century ,| It is mentioned in two poems, the 

 " Tiruvantati " and "Tiruvula," on Jnana Sambandha, by 

 Nambi Andar Nambi, who lived in the tenth century ; f it is 

 also referred to by Jnana Sambandha's contemporary, Appar, 

 as well as by Sundara Murtti, in their " Devarams." Now 

 this identical miracle is referred to in the Chilappatikaram, a 

 poem of the second century, by Kannaki.J It may therefore 

 be that Jnana Sambandha and his contemporary, Appar, 

 lived prior to the second and not in the thirteenth century. 



I take this opportunity to state that I think I have been 

 fortunate enough to identify the Pandiyan king who was 

 reconverted into Hinduism by Jnana Sambandha from 

 Jainism, and about whom Dr. Caldwell's work contains much 

 erroneous writing — the learned Bishop confounding him 

 with a Sundara Pandiyan, " Marco Polo's Sender Bandi," of 

 the thirteenth century. Mr. Sundaram Pillai has established 

 that the seventh century is the terminus ad quern of the time 

 of Jnana Sambandha, and I have shown above that he may 

 perhaps be placed prior to the second century. How then 

 can the king whom he converted have lived in the thir- 

 teenth century ? The right name of this king was Nedu 



* Vanniyun Kinarum Ilinkamum Alaitta Padalam. 



f See " Age of Jnana Sambandha " ; also Arumukha Navalar's 

 edition of the prose "Periyapuranam," p. 9 ; and " South Indian Inscrip- 

 tions," vol. I., pp. 63, 64. For an account of this miracle see " Periyapura- 

 nam " (Sadasivappillai's edition), p. 317, v. 473 et seq. 



X See Chilappatikaram, Vanjina Malai. This poem was written by the 

 brother of the Chera king- Senkuttuvan in the second century. As to the 

 authorship of this poem, see Chilappatikaram itself, as well as Manimekhalai, 

 Arumpadavurai Asiriyar,and Adiyarkkunallar; Chilappatikaram is cited by 

 Naohchinarkkiniyar in his commentary on Tolkappiyam. For the age of 

 Kannaki, see remarks on Senkuttuvan (who built a temple for her), in 

 vol. XIII., R. A. S., Ceylon : my Paper on " Chilappatikaram," pp. 81-84 ; 

 Mr. Ranasinha's Paper, "Which G-aja Bahu visited India ? " p. 144 et seq. ; . 

 and "A Half -hour with two Ancient Tamil Poets," p. 190 et seq. See 

 also p. 36, infra. 



