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early f art of the Christian era. In this way, I conceive, docuraents 

 which seem to be trilling in themselves may, by comparison with other 

 documents assist in elucidating points of actual history. The Brah- 

 wan*, and the Bandd' has or Jainos,nve the best possible checks on each 

 Other. The punishment by grinding to death in oil-mills, is one well 

 known to Indian history; and in the progress of development of these 

 papers it will be seen that Baudd'has and Jainas were subjected to iti 

 at a later period, by Hindu kings under Brahmanical influence. 



-Stc/ion 4.— Account of the destruction of eight thousand /«?na5 by 

 the famous Sampantar Murti, at Punai-la/mi jnatam. 



This is an account considerably ornamented, and much resembling 

 the accounts which we otherwise have of the destruction of the Saynanar 

 at Madura, herein also referred to. The site of the transaction is how- 

 ever difTcrcnt ; the name of the king who is concerned is not mentioned, 

 nor yet the name of his kingdom. I am doubtful whether the transac- 

 tion be not the same wi.h that which occurred at Madura. At all events 

 the paper is worth translating as a note or illustration to any leading 

 view of the whole subject. The general fact that Sampantar was the 

 inciter of an extensive and cruel persecution of the Baudd'has (or 

 Jainas) by the Saivas, is historical. 



Section 5. — Account of the first founder of the Chola kingdom named 

 Tayamayi-nalli. 



Anciently the Pandiya, Chola, and Tonda countries were one vast 

 forest, called after Dandaca, a rdcshasa that dwelt in it. Rama brought 

 several people from the north, and one person, named Tayaman-yiallt^ 

 settled at Trichinopoly ; then sun-ounded by a vast wilderness. He 

 built a fane and placed an emblem of Siva^ called after his own name, 

 on the rock : he also paid great attention to cultivation. He had a son 

 called Fen-Cholan, from connecting the Cauvery river with the Vennar, 

 p.nd thereby fertilizing an enlarged extent of country. His son was 

 Cari-Canda Chola so called from having embanked the Cauvery river. 



Remark,— the accuracy of this paper I have some doubts, chiefly 

 becJiuse the name of the fane on the top of the rock of Trichinopoly 

 is said to be an epithet of Siva of the same import, in Tamil, with 

 Mat ri-Vhuvesvara in Sanscrit, ihat is Siva who became a mother," 

 from a fable that Siva g^ve suck to an orphan; being no doubt some 

 historical circumstance, veiled under an emblem or hieroglyphic. The 

 name was also borne by a famous adwita poet at Trichinopoly : whether 

 it belonged to a colonist from the north, as stated in this paper, I would 

 leave others to determine. 



