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² JRAS, 1924, p. 402. For images of later kings, *cf*. *Beginnings of South Indian History*, 144, 153; Raverty, *Tabaqāt*, I, 622 (effigy of Bikramajit); C. S. Srinivasachari, *The Evolution of Political Institutions of South India*, Section IV ("*The Young Men of India*," June and July, 1924), p. 5. Images of Sundara Chola and one of his queens were set up in the Tanjore temple and deified. C. V. Vaidya (*Mediaeval Hindu India*, I, 98) refers to the prevalence of the custom of raising some temples at the place of burning the dead body of the kings. But it is not clear if the temples contained images of the dead king and his queens. The deification and worship of the dead kings may be compared to *devapitripūjā* referred to in the *Kauṭilīya* (II. 6).