1847.] 



Addendum. 



5a 



title of the Chera-rajas^ is mentioned " Colly verpen, Lord of the 

 Colly mountain in Salem." Although it be Professor Wilson who is 

 responsible : yet the same is an error. Koli-verpen and Koli-ventan 

 are titles of the Chera Kings : but Kolli is one of the distinguishing 

 mountains of the Chola kingdom. There is not only a difference 

 in the quantity of the vowels 6 and o; but in the consonant I. In 

 Sanscrit there is the common I, and the heavy palatine used only in 

 the Vedas. This last I is used in Koli, and the common /, doubled 

 in Kolli. Another capital of the Chera^nad was J^annasi (not that 

 JBanavasi of Potolemy, as I once wrote with as much care as I wrote 

 Tnchengudi.) I think it must be distinct from Koli. Vannasi and 

 Vanchi or Tiru-vanchi are most common in Madura writings. The 

 Stliola purdnam, for example.* Other stanzas than those quoted 

 make Peru-vali, the great plain, or Vannasi Perur, the great town 

 F'anndsi, the western boundary of the Pandya kingdom. I would 

 submit whether Nedum purely ur would correspond with Perur, this 

 is ' great town' or district, that is ' long town' with a district, and 

 according to Dr. Gundert (M. J. L; and S., No. 30, p. 140) this is 

 the site of an old temple near Palghat, and the probable site of 

 the Pala-cddu-raja, If there were anciently a large town there, it 

 would accord with F'anndsi. Virinji, or Tiru-vanchi, is another 

 town of the Ckera-desa, which Mr. Dowson has apparently transfer- 

 red high up in the Chola kingdom ; because a Virenji-puram is 

 now found there. f But the town seems to have given the common 

 appellation of Travancore corrupted from Tiru-van-hudi : for liudi 

 ov gudi in the extreme south is equivalent to palli northern Tamil, 

 or halli in Canarese, that is ' a hamlet ;' which every town at first is. 

 I do not know if I ought to dwell on the boundaries given from a 

 Tamil verse by Professor Wilson. " The Palini river on the north, 

 " Ten Cast or Tinnevelly on the east, Malabar on the west, and the 

 sea on the south." That a Tamil verse should have in it the 

 term Malabar" is impossible ; and one cannot conjecture what 

 word a translator may have so rendered, he may have meant the Ma- 

 labar coast, which would agree with Kozhi-Kudu or Calicut. The 

 boundaries given by Professor Wilson, and quoted from Mr. Dow- 

 son (from Des : Catal : Int. p. 62) may be allowed to pass, as a 

 general approximation ; only supposing the Chera and Congu-ndd to 



* In a question of this kind a good authority. In the 42d Tiruvalliadel a messenger is 

 stated to have been sent from Madura, who set out, passing woods and mountains, till 

 he reached the Malayalam country, and came to Tiruvanchi the Capital. 



t See p, 8, and note. 



