South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.111

c13.s1.111

42. Toṇḍi.—Toṇḍi is a port about twenty miles east from Kāḷaiyār Kovil and is on the road from Madura. This was known to classical Tamils as Śoḷan Toṇḍi, and was a great centre of eastern trade including that of the Chinese in the days of classical Tamil literature. It seems to have retained some of its importance even in the centuries of the Muhammadan invasions. This was one of the places that the Ceylon general took after some considerable fighting.