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Addendum, 



[No. 32, 



temple is introduced by the term " Subsequently." Still the dif- 

 ference of 16 years is not great. But as Mr. Dowson made a con- 

 siderable mistake in taking Sancara-dever to mescn Sancar a- achdrya, 

 the necessity of the very bold emendation of leaping over eleven 

 reigns from Vicrama 1st to Vicrama 2d is quite obviated. I know 

 not what is " unfair" if harmonizing by such a process be not so. 

 It is not unlike the leap from Travancore to Vellore. Geography and 

 Chronology will not bend to such hardihood. 



From these, as they appear to me, vague inferences — 1st, the tem- 

 ple founded in A, D. 894, 2dly, a conjecture that Cheruman-perumal 

 (the name of a dynasty) ruled about the ninth century — and 3dly, 

 the above emendation bringing Sancardcharya and Vicrama II. to- 

 gether, Mr. Dowson assumes a period nearly corresponding with 

 A. D. 900 as the date of the Chola conquest. But, at any rate, we 

 ought to take the unforced language of the Manuscript into fair con- 

 sideration. It gives Malla-deva, and a grant by his elder brother 

 Gunaluttama in S. Saca 800 : A. D. 877 — 8. I must suppose 

 some error in the word " elder," as analogy shows it must have been 

 3Ialla-deva''s younger brother. A war is mentioned, as occurring 

 with the Pandiya king ; who, though stated to be defeated, which is 

 a little questioable, would yet have given a shock to the Congu- 

 ndd. Again there was a division of power, Rdja-malla at Dalavan- 

 puramy and Gunaluttama at Scanda-puram. An interval indicated 

 by the term " Subsequently" appears. Then follows the abrupt 

 transition to the CTiola conquest, by Aditya-vai'ma ; who it is said 

 came to Congu-desam, and conquered the wild huntsmen of the 

 king of Congu-desam, and took the town of Talicddu, synonymous 

 with DalaA)an-puram. The term Vardar^" (huntsmen) is a very de- 

 preciating one. In other documents I have seen the term applied to 

 the inhabitants of Wynaad ; and the mention of a Vardar-raja oc- 

 curs in Malayalam documents, whose locality was in that neighbour- 

 hood. It is implied that the king had no better forces than a mob 

 of wild hunters. A weak and low state of power is indicated : and not 

 that of one ruling Malayalam by a viceroy. Vira-chola is said in the 

 Manuscript to be the son of Aditya-varina (a mere titular name) and 

 Vi^'a-chola recurs so perpetually that, though titular, it must have 

 belonged pre-eminently to some one king. The book of Inscriptions, 



* This word, of very common usage, 1 suppose to be a corruption of the yanscrit Virata 

 applied to a Barbarian. 



