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directly from Pandu and some have ventured other explana- 
tions, I believe that none are generally accepted as eon-eot.^' 
I do not flatter myself that I have solved the difficulty, 
but merely hazard a new conjecture. I suggest that the word 
Pandi {ut dsns/.)^ which is specially applied to the ancient 
kingdom of Madura, and the term Pdndiyan {un-<smi^ujsirr^^ 
which denotes the king who ruled over it, the Pandion, 
navSiav of Ptolemy, VII, 1, 11, are contracted forms for 
Pallandi and Pallandiyan. The king of Madura, the Peru- 
mal of the Pandiyas, was regarded as the most powerfid 
king of Southern India, and as such he might well have been 
named after the people over whom he ruled. The word 
Palldndii/an, the king of the Pallas, was contracted into 
Pandiyan as Tiruvallankodu ha« become Tinivanlcodu, 
Andi {^<s^^) and dndavan (^^sari^suesr) , ruler, come from 
ag-ricultural caste." Compare also Part II, p. 31. Already the Rev. W. 
Taylor has pointed out that Oude is not mentioned as Pandya's, hut only as 
Eama' s home. Whatever is the right extraction of the VeLlalar, they as well 
as their Telugu relatives, the Velamas, regard themselves as Ksatriyas. The 
Eev. J. F. Kearns in The Tribes of South India, Madi-as, 1860, alludes to the 
tradition that the Reddies of Tinnevelly derive their origin fi-om Oude, for he 
says on p. 8 : " There is, however, a cuxumstance connected with the Eeddies 
which in some degree appears to impart an air of probahility at least to 
the legend, namely, all the Eeddies in the p^o^•ince style themselves Oude 
Eeddies, and assert that Oude is the native country of their tribe." 
" Compare Lassen's Lid. Alterth., vol. II, p. 102, and Bishop Caldwell's 
Introduction to his Comparative Draridian Grammar, p. IC : " The Sanskrit 
Pandva is written in Tamil Pandiya, hut the more completely Tamilised 
form Pandi is still more commonly used all over Southern India. I derive 
Pdndi not from the Tamil and Malayalam pandu, ancient, though that is 
a very tempting derivation, but — as native scholars always derive the woni— 
fi-om the Sanslait Fdndu, the name of the father of the Pandava brothoi-s. 
This very form Pd/idi/a, in the sense of a descendant of Pandu, is mentioned, 
as I am informed by Professor Max MiiUer, by Katyayana, the immediate 
successor of Panini." 
9S Compare A JTistori/ of Travancore, by P. Shungoonny !Menon, p. i : 
" Thiruvancode instead of Sreevalimtcode." Tirtn iddiikddu is a wrong 
conjecture. 
Not far from Tiruvallankodu lies T'allaraii/:ddii, both localities being inti- 
mately connected witli each other in the history of Ti-avancore. I have also 
strong reasons to suppose that the name of TiriirSiiflddit near Tellicherry is 
tho same as that of finirnlnmiddii near Calicut. Both places have celebrated 
temples. That of tho latter belongs to the Zaraorin. I reg-ard the usual 
