South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c11.26

c11.26

¹ Strangely enough the revised Madura Gazetteer edited by Mr. Francis states on p. 33 that Pon-Amarāvati has not yet been identified. There never has been any doubt about the identity of Pon-Amarāvati, and the epigraphist's report treating of the War of the Ceylonese (1899) identifies the place with Pon-Amarāvati in Pudukoṭṭa. At any rate, there can be absolutely no doubt now in the face of the clear statement of the Mahāvamśa that the utmost boundary of the Pāṇḍya country was a line drawn through Pon-Amarāvati, Kiḷānilai, and Maṇamēlkuḍi, a little way south of the mouth of the southern Veḷḷār. Mr. Hemingway's Trichinopoly marks it on the map.