South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.115

c13.s1.115

46. Vēlaṅguḍi.—There are two Vēlaṅguḍis, one of them about four miles from Kānāḍukāttān. That is not the Vēlaṅguḍi referred to in the Ceylonese campaign. On the road between Tiruppattūr and Pon-Amarāvati, of which a part over ten to twelve miles is traceable now, there is this village Vēlaṅguḍi eight miles or so, south of Pon-Amarāvati. The taking of Vēlaṅguḍi naturally led on to the capture of Pon-Amarāvati as well in the campaign. The road actually branches off a little less than a mile from Tiruppattūr on the Tiruppattūr-Tirumeyyam road, and one has to get to Kaṇḍavarāyampaṭṭi by a pathway. Then begins the road passing through Vēlaṅguḍi-Pūvālankurichi and Pon-Amarāvati, and shows even some of the old culverts.