Addendum. 



[No. 3g, 



are forbidden by tbe analogy of custom, as abundantly exemplified in 

 the Pandian lists, to consider titles usually distinctive of individuals, 

 as given to one person. We rather presume in the list of sixteen, 

 discretionary power must have been exercised in cutting out all 

 duplicate or triplicate names, as being supposed to be erroneous ; 

 whereas a list without such names occurring is, on that ground, ex- 

 posed to suspicion of defect." Or. Hist. M. S. S. Vol. 2, 68. 



If this quotation in ftdl^ did not sufficiently vindicate me, I should 

 have had to plead in apology that m}^ Analysis of the McKenzie 

 M. SS. was, in the earliest part, two years, and in the latter, three 

 years, posterior to the publication of my second volume of translated 

 M. SS. But the apology is not necessary. 



I must guard against contradicting myself ; for I have stated a 

 while ago*that Vira-chola was not to be confounded with others ; by 

 admitting that at a later date the title may have been borne by a de- 

 scendant. Indeed I ought not to be positive. Vira-cJiola, or the 

 Champion Chola., being so very likely to have been a common epithet: 

 though perhaps pre-eminently proper to one among them. 



On page 20, Mr. Dowson gives part of a list in which occurs 18, 

 Vicrama ; 19, Kulottunga ; 20, Hajendra-chol a ; 21, Vh'a-chola and 

 lower down states : "■ We find also three of the above names in the 

 same order in a poetical account of the actions of Vicrama, Kulot- 

 tunga, and Hojendra, Chola, which shows that so far this succession 

 was received by other Hindu authors." I must beg permission to 

 plead for the distinct existence of Vici'ama, Kulottunga, Rajendra, 

 and Vira-chola. 



On referring back to past and almost forgotten, lucubrations, I 

 find from the Madura Puranam, 34th and 35th Tiruvilaiyadels, that 

 the Chola king who cleared the forest for building Kanchi and is 

 termed, "Forest felling Chola'"' was favourably disposed towards 

 Madura, and promised to give his daughter in marriage to the Pan- 

 diyan ; but the latter's younger brother supplanted him. The result 

 Avas, war ; and a severe contest, in which the Pandiyan was conqueror 

 only by a miracle : the Chola general and king's younger brother 

 being captured. The former was sent back, and a maintenance given 

 to the younger brother. In the 37th Tiruvillaidel we meet with ano- 

 ther war, in which the Cholanat first fled, but rallied, and the Pandi- 

 yan in turn retreated. Both Pandiyan, and Cholan, fell into tanks from 

 which the former was extricated, and in which the latter perislied. In 

 the 50th Tiruvilaiyadel we have the names of both kings concerned. 



