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¹ See Kanakasabhai, Tamils, p. 54, connecting Megasthenes' story about Pandaia and Pliny's Pandæ who were ruled by women with Silappadikāram, canto 23, ll. 11-13 which does not bear the interpretation given there. These classical references are collected together and briefly discussed by Caldwell, Comparative Grammar, especially pp. 88 ff. See also his Tinnevelly, pp. 17-22, on Korkai, Comorin, Paumben, etc.