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³ Lat. 12° 49'; long. 79° 45'.—The name Kâñchî appears to be simply a Sanskritised appellation. Dr. Hultzsch tells me that the Tamil name is Kañchi,—in literature and inscriptions, and on coins. He says that the Tamil dictionaries give also Kañji, but that he has not yet met with it anywhere else.—The form Kachchi occurs in inscriptions at Tirukkaḷukkunram (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III. pp. 284, 285); and a fuller form, Kachchippeḍu, is met with in inscriptions at Conjeeveram itself (South-Indian Inscr's. Vol. I. pp. 113, 114, 117, 139, 141, 143).—Dr. Burnell has quoted the form Kañji in his South-Indian Palæography, second edition, p. x. note 2