The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.54
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.54
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² Cf. *E.I.*, vol. xi, pp. 292 ff. Mr. K. V. S. Aiyar remarks in a note at p. 292, ‘It is worthy of note that two of the signatures at the end of the inscription are in Sanskrit. Such admixture of Sanskrit words in a Tamil record of this period may be accounted for, to a certain extent, by the revival of learning brought about by the immigration to the southern country of a large number of Brahmins from the north as a result of the conquests of Rājendra Chola I, which extended as far as the Ganges.’ But the admixture of Sanskrit in Tamil records is very common even in the age of the First Empire as we have seen and even then the immigration of Brahmins from the north was not unknown.