1847.] 



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to which I have referred, gives iis one of the 5th year of F'ti'a-chola- 

 dever^ with the corresponding Saca year 1044, A. D. 1121 — 2. Now 

 we may hope that is the truth, or near the truth. The first year of 

 Vira-chola then would be Saca 1039, A. D. 11 16. But the last of 

 the Congu kings recorded was ruling in Saca ^00, A. D. 877 — 8. 

 If we strike off 16 years for the rule of Aditya-varma, after his con- 

 quest, it gives A, D. 1100 : two hundred years later than the period 

 assigned by Mr. Dowson. There must have been a long interval 

 after Raja-malla, and before the Chola conquest ; and I am satisfied, 

 in my own mind, that the writer knew not how to fill it up otherwise 

 than by the foundation of the fane at Seringapatam A. D. 893 — 4. If 

 we forcibly bring down the period of Raja-malla, or force up the em 

 of Vira-chola to make a coincidence, it will be to deal with evidence 

 in a way not admissible. Let the evidence remain ; and let us see, if 

 there be any fair vinculum, or connexion not forced. 



In 30th No. of the M. J. Literature, &c. at p. 51 it is stated by Mr. 

 Elliot, " an inscription at Dharavarum in Rajahmundry shows that 

 a Vira-chola-deva was reigning in S. S. 1001, A. D. 1079." Mr. 

 Dowson gives a date from Wilson's McKenzie Catalogue in which a 

 Vira-chola is dated, Saca 899, A. D. 977. 



Here there are three different dates Saca 899, 1001, 1039. I 

 distrust the first one ; but the medium of the three is Saca, 949^ 

 A. D. 1027. Even this medium would leave an interval of 150 years 

 to be accounted for ; and would refer the Chola conquest to about 

 A, D. 1000. 



It cannot I think be admitted that Kullotlunga and Hajendra were 

 the same person, as Professor Wilson is stated to suggest ; nor does 

 it seem allowable to consider Rajendra to be the same with Ad'itya- 

 varrna^ as Mr. Dowson states there is reason to suppose. We are 

 pretty sure of the date of Rajendra. Camhan lived in his reign. Ac- 

 cording to the Manuscript entitled Carnataca-rajalcal, Camhan wrote 

 the Ra7nayanam in (that is about) Saca, 867, A. D. 884 — 5. Mr. 

 Ellis, and a M. S. quoted by Mr. Dowson, give the date A. D. 886. 

 Perhaps that date, at least, is settled. But Kulottunga-cliola was 

 " the ruler of Madura, and decapitator of the Pandiyan, and possessor 

 of Carurr An inscription is dated in the 23d year, impl3^ing a long 

 reign. There are inscriptions in his time, and that oi Rajendra \\\ 

 Carur, and No. 6 of those before quoted, attests the Chola conquest of 

 Congu-desa. My inference (agreeing with what I see of the manner 

 of the primary documents) is that after the Pandiya king had retreat- 



