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¹ Contra Dr. S. K. Aiyangar, *op. cit.*, p. 123, where Kulaśēkhara is an obvious slip for Sundara and pp. 156-7. Dr. Aiyangar, however, says that if a garrison continued in Madura ' its authority must have been confined very narrowly, not extending in all probability to very much beyond the territory immediately round Madura ' (p. 123). Hultzsch (J.R.A.S., 1909, pp. 668-9), leaves it uncertain when the Muhammadan viceroyalty at Madura began. In the *Cambridge History of India*, vol. iii, p. 116, Sir Wolseley Haig says ' A Muslim governor was left at Madura ' by Malik Kafur ; it is not clear on what authority this statement is based though it is also found in Smith's *Oxford History of India*, p. 233. Likewise it is difficult to follow Sir W. Haig in his statement that Ravivarman Kulaśēkhara of Kērala was one of the two kings of Ma'bar conquered and plundered by Malik Naib. The attempt to extract history from the confused chronicles in the Taylor MSS. (e.g. Heras, *Aravīdu Dynasty*, p. 100) seems a hopeless task.