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¹ This conclusion has been accepted by distinguished writers like V. A. Smith, *Early History*, pp. 471-2 and n. 4 at p. 457 ; and Sir Charles Elliot, *Hinduism and Buddhism*, vol. ii, p. 214 : ‘Most Tamil scholars are agreed in referring the oldest Tamil literature to the first three centuries of our era and I see nothing improbable in this.’ Hultzsch’s objections to this date, *S.I.I.*, vol. ii, p. 378, are too general and impressionistic to need separate discussion.