OF BHARATAVARSA OR IKDIA. 
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attack his fierce enemies, and he secured a complete victory 
over them. Adonda Cola captured the Kurumba king and 
put him to death. Pulal, the chief town and fort of the 
Kurumbas, was taken, and its brass doors were placed in the 
inner portion (garbhagrha) of the temple of Tan j ore. A 
pillar made of Arka ( CaJatropis gigantea) wood that had been 
removed from the Tanjore temple, was placed in the interior 
of a temple and erected at the spot where the SivaHnga had 
been found. This temple was called Tiru-mullai-mial, after 
the jasmine-creeper which had covered the legs of the ele- 
phant. The part of the Linga where the sword of Adonda 
had touched it looked like a wound, and is therefore covered 
with camphor to conceal the sore. 
" The remaining twenty-three forts were then taken, and 
their governors with their retinues were also killed. Adonda 
Cola appointed Vellala chiefs instead of the Kurumbas. As 
he observed that the country was very thinly populated, he 
invited Yellalas from different districts and induced them 
to settle in the newly-acquired territory, by granting them 
freehold land and conferring on them other favours. The 
Vellalas who accepted the offer were the Tuluva, Coliya and 
Kondaikatti Vellalas. The first two were called after the 
district they came from, the Tuluva Vellalas emigrated from 
the Tuluva-Nadu in Kanara and the Coliya Vellalas from 
the Colanadu. The KondaikaUi Vellalas were so called, 
from binding their hair in a tuft on the top of their head 
instead of leaving a small lock (Kudumi). With these 
VejLlalas together came the Kanakka-Pillaikal or accountants. 
" Adonda Cola ruled the land with justice and in peace, 
and was henceforth known as Adonda Cola Cakravarti or as 
Tondaman Cakravarti. The country which had hitherto 
been called Kurumbabhumi was now named Tondaman- 
dalam." 
In order to ascertain what was left of Pulal, I lately 
visited the place and its neighbourhood. It lies about 8 miles 
north-west of Madras, to the east of the big lake, known as 
