OF BHARATAVAESA OR INDIA. 131 
Though some have proposed to derive the name Pandya 
his Observations on Professor ■Wilson'' s Historical Sketch in tlie same volume 
of the Madras Journal, pp. 142-157. H. H. Wilson had said in the Royal 
Asiatic Society's Journal, vol. Ill, p. 201, and in the Madras Journal, 
vol. VI, p. 177, that "an adventurer, named Pandya, of the Velalar or 
" agricultural trihe, first established himself in that portion of the south to 
" wliich his name was afterwards assigned." See also Wilson's JIfaeA'e«cie 
Collections, Introduction, p. 45, and Tamul Books, p. 203 (new edition). 
The Rev. W. Taylor took exception to these statements in his Oriental 
Historical Manuscripts, vol. II, pp. 73, 74, and its Appendix, pp. 35 and 
39, and animadverted on Wilson's want of acquaintance with the Tamil 
language (p. 63), to which charges Wilson replied in his Supplementary 
Note. The Rev. W. Taylor admitted the error of indulging in strong 
language, but maintained (on p. 144) that : " Vada desattilulla pdndiyan- 
" dkira velldzhan might have been still better and more accurately rendered 
"an ancient agriculturist in (or of ) the north country ," and (on p. 149) that 
"there is, however, throughout no mention of this person's proper name." 
In both these statements Taylor is not quite correct. Akira means here 
" called," for in the same manuscript occur repeatedly such phrases as 
Irdmandkirairdcd, the king called Rama, or Sitaiydkira pencdti, the wife 
called Sita. 
The Tamil manuscript in question is the Pdntiyamantalam Colamantalam 
picrvikardjdcaritravolunku in the Government Oriental Manuscript Library 
No. 241, in Wilson's Mackenzie Collections, Tamil Local History No. 4, and 
in W. Taylor's Cataloytte Raisonne, vol. Ill, p. 88, No. 2322. On p. 4a the 
Pdndiyan is first mentioned as follows : ^uuiS).Quj sul^QjSS'^ ^ ^^imetr 
u a esBT is)-iu<^S fo Qeuerr<sirn-(Sir6afljE^ JTrrQins^jrimr ^ ^eisirrat^ui^mu 
UlL® eui^rresT (Appatiye vatatecattil ulla Pantiyan akira Vellalan inta 
Ramecurayattiraikku purappattu vantan). The translation of which sentence 
is : "Thus having started came on a pilgrimage to RamSsvara a Vellalan 
named Pandiya, who lived in the northern country," Again on p. 5 b: 
@ui_;i9- .... ujjrs=esr urremi^iusir Qurr ld ^st rstTivs uTesaris-tuesr 
^GuesT (ip s^eiswQ uessreseflssr ULLi—essr^^S(^<3;,^6sr Qust^rr^ ^n" 
QesT (saeu sijg) LB^irrrL^ifl Qimk^LD Ld^emir/EsQfreir^Lh QurflilQ 
iSm ^! LnQjBsu ULL(_iS!St>nEi£s'iafrtLj(LpesBrQ ueesrssafli^esr (Ippati . . 
yaracan Pantiyan per Maturanayaka Pantiyan avan mutal untu pannina 
pattanattukku tan perai tane vaittu Maturapuri yenrum Maturainakarenrum 
perittu pinnum anekappattanankalaiyum untu panninan); or in English: 
Thus this Pandiya king, called Maturapandiyan, having given to the town he 
founded first his own name, and having named it Maturapuri or Maturainagar, 
established afterwards many towns." The founder of the Cola kingdom, 
Tdyamdn Nalli, is also called a Vellalan, see p. 66. Compare Lassen's Indische 
Alterth., vol. II, p. 108. Mr. J. H. Nelson remarks in his Manual of 
Madiira, Part III, p. 44 : "The story of the man of Oude may doubtless 
be found in certain Hindii writings, but I do not beUevo it is traditional in 
the country to which it relates. And the Pandya kings of the lunar race 
are commonly believed to be of the Kshatriya, not of the Vellala or any 
