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the conqueror to rule over the land, he went to the invisible world. 

 The victorious Adondai appointed ministers to assist him ; and, return- 

 ing to Surili-puri (the place of the former vision) he made great addi- 

 tions of shrines and ornaments, and caused the public festivals to be 

 conducted with regularity. 



Remark. — This is only another, and more poetical, version of an ac- 

 count otherwise mentioned in other papers of the collection. The 

 leading fact, that Adondai conquered and regulated the Tondaman- 

 dalam is unquestionably historical. The means will be found to exist 

 in the collection of bringing out the connected circumstances in full 

 detail. 



Section 2. — Account of Arcot ; derivation of the word; first and 

 second settlement, and subsequent history. 



The Brahmdnda-purdna is adduced as an authority. Nandi (the 

 vehicle of -S'tya) for some fault, was sentenced to become a stone on 

 earth, and accordingly became a mountain, called Nandi-durga (Nun- 

 didroog). Fishnu interceded with Sivaf on behalf of Nandi, Siva 

 ordered Ganga in his hair, to fall on the mountain (the river Pdldr 

 rises from Nundidroog), and to wash away the fault of Nandi, Ganga 

 I replied that if she descended on earth, she wished Siva and Vishnu to 

 be in their shrines on the banks of the river, and that she might run 

 between both to the sea. The request was conceded ; and Siva came 

 to Canchi-puram (Conjeveram) in the shape of a Brahman. An ac- 

 count of the images of Siva ; and of the six rishis who established 

 them. The waste country wherein these six ascetics dwelt was termed 

 Shaddranya (in Tamil Arucddu) " six wildernesses," whence came 

 the word, popularly written and pronounced, Arcot. 



When Kulottang Cahola, and his illegitimate son Adondai^ had con- 

 quered the foresters of the country, they saw that this Shadaranya had 

 been the abode of sacred ascetics, and hence they built many fanes, 

 with the usual accompaniments, at Canchi-puram^ and othev places. 

 Subsequently the edifices built by them went to ruinj and the country 

 became a wildevness, as it had been before. Thus it remained for some 

 time, till N'ala Bomma-nayadu, and Timma-nayadu, being on a hunt- 

 ing excursion from Pennacondai, hearing there was a multitude of 

 beasts in this forest, came hither. They saw an old hare chase a fierce 

 tiger, and seize it by the throat, at which they were surprised; they 

 considered this to be an auspicious place, and having caused it to be 

 colonized, they cut down the forest termed Arcadu, and built there a 

 stone-foit with treasure discovered by Anjanam (a kind of magic) ; 



