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¹³ Yule: *Ser Marco Polo*, Vol. II p. 337. Aiyangar: *Invaders* p. 58. Abul Feda distinctly names Cape Comorin as the point where Malabar ended. Vaṣṣāf also writes that it extended to Nilavar (Nellor). Rashiduddin writing about 1300 A.D. speaks of M'abar, which was apparently another name for the Pandya country, as extending from Kulam (Quilon) to Nellor. This statement had been corroborated several years ago by an inscription of Sundara Pandya found at Nellor. Further confirmation is afforded by a number of Tamil records discovered in the southern portion of the Cuddapah distt. *Arch. Sur. Rep.* 1907-8 p. 230. Also Yule's note in *Ser Marco Polo*, vol. II, p. 315.