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¹ The history of this question is very interesting and the curious reader is referred to the following :—Burgess and Natesa Sastri, *Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions*, p. 30, n. 4 ; Hultzsch : *I. A.*, vol. xx, pp. 288-9 ; Kanakasabhai, *Tamils*, pp. 59-60 and notes. More recently, Mr. T. A. Gopinatha Rao suggested (*Sen Tamil*, vol. iv, p. 114) that in a date ‘இரண்டாவதின் எதிர் நாற்பத்தாண்டு’ the first figure referred to the actual regnal year of the ruling prince and the second gave the date counting from the coronation of the previous ruler, and that this method was usually continued till the ruling prince was crowned. But this explanation fails in a