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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON 



Regarding the olders works, &c, Sir Walter Elliot writes 

 thus (Carr, p. 127) : — . . . . "It may be inferred that the rulers 

 of Mamallapura were in a state of independence in the sixth and 

 beginning of seventh centuries." " We know from other sources 

 that the Cola kings reduced Tondamandalam about the seventh 

 century .... The excavations therefore could not well have 

 been made later than the sixth century, neither could they have 

 been much earlier, for the forms of the letters, both Grantha and 

 NagarT, do not justify the supposition of a higher antiquity." 

 (See Carr, p. 127.) 



