OF BHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 
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The Tiruverkdttu Purana says about tlie origin of the term 
Tondamandalam : " The country was called Dandakanddu 
as it was ruled ty Dandaka. Then it was named Tundli a- 
nddii in consequence of the reign of Tundira. Afterwards 
it was called Tondanadu, as Tondaman, a descendant of the 
solar race who wore a garland of Adonda flowers, governed 
the kingdom. 
The late Mr. F. W. Ellis quotes a stanza from the TiniMa- 
lukkunra-Purdna in which a similar statement is made, the 
difference between the two Puranas being, that tlie latter 
mentions Tondira as the founder of Tondiranadu before 
Dandaka, the assumed establisher of Dandakanadu.^^* 
The boundaries of Tondamandalam are said to be the 
two Pennai or PinakinI rivers in the north and south, and 
the sea and the Western Grhats up to Tirupati on the east and 
west. Some parts of the Western Grhats also belonged to it. 
Mr. Ellis gives the memorial verses concerning the frontiers 
of this district. The Southern Pennai flows into the sea near 
Gudalur (Cuddalore), while the northern passes through the 
district of Nellur close to Kalahasti, both streams rising near 
the Nandidrug in Mysore. 
'3'' See the following stanza from the Tiruverkdttu Purdnam : — 
^(j^Qsu jbmrrL-Qu Ljirirsm-ih. 
euesBTi—iT'oiJiTissrSrirLSl G)s=n'ifl^^urreuQu(T^Suju:iiTji^(sSlLJUiT6S jsesr 
@(dI 
138 Sec Papers on Blirdii Right (Madras, 1862), p. 234 : " Tondlren, the 
chief among the leadeis of the demon bands of the three-eyed deity, having 
governed it, this country became Tondiranadu ; when it was defended by 
Dandacavender, it became accordingly Dandaca-nadu ; and when ChOzher of 
the family of the sun, who was Tondeiman adorned by garlands of ilowers, 
extended his protection to it, it become Tondei-nadu." Compare also the 
stanza in Hastigiricampa which begins with " Tundirdkhyam mandalam asti 
spfhainyain.^' 
"9 See Papers on Mirdsi Right, pp. 229-247 ; onp, 246, iMr. Ellis remarks : 
" The whole superficies of Tonda- mandalam, as originally settled by the 
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