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on the north bank of tlie Cauvery, and about thirty miles east of 

 the modern Seringapatam (Dowson's Essay, p. 13) is an impor- 

 tant point gained : if definite. I cannot object ; and am disposed 

 to acquiesce ; though from time to time, in my notes, I have thrown 

 out doubts. I fear that the position of the northern Telicota would 

 not accord with the site of Valavan-puram ; nor yet with an indica- 

 tion given towards the close of the documents as to warlike opera- 

 tions by Krislma-rayoj in the Mysore country. On the whole, from 

 Colonel Mackenzie's, and other writers' notices of the ruins of TaU 

 cad (as a Jaina locality) I have long wished to pay the site a visit, 

 a wish which possibly may be gratified. It is certain that after the 

 Chola power had been broken, and the Congu-nad had been divided 

 among chieftains, and next brought under the Oyisalas, that then 

 the capital was farther north-west at Dwara-Samudra, or Hallabi- 

 du ; the ruins of which are also of antiquarian interest. 



I must beg leave to except, in passing, to the terming Kalyana- 

 fUr " a name of Madura." Professor Wilson took that name (as 

 I found posterior to former remarks on the subject) from Kira-Saiva 

 documents, in the old Canarese language ; which transfer all the 

 ultra Saiva proceedings at Madura, without ceremony to Kalyan^ 

 the capital of the Cludukyas ; and connect them seriatim, with the 

 contests of Basava, and Chinna Basava, with Bijala-raja. This 

 observation is only by the way. 



As a specimen of loose inference I quote the following : " The 

 *' assertion of our M. S. S. that the last Chola-raja mentioned plun- 

 *' dered Virenji-pura, a place, as before stated in the neighbourhood 

 *' of Vellore in this Desa, would indicate that the whole of this desa 

 " was not then subject to the Chola kings." 



It is assumed that there was only one town of that name, and this 

 town, near Vellore, ancient. The singularity of a C%6^a king attack- 

 ing Madura, marching up near Vellore, plundering Virenji, and then 

 returning to Tanjore, does not appear to have excited doubt. But 

 the march to Madura, thence to Travancore, and back to Tanjore, is 

 easy, and natural. 



The next important point of notice is the dynasties of rulers, with 

 their periods of rule. And as more stress is here laid upon a pass- 

 ing remark of mine, than in the introduction, it may be incumbent on 

 me to observe that by the expression " well supported by dates, in 

 general referred to inscriptions ; which are mentioned," I, by no 

 means, intended to recommend an implicit submission to such dates. 



