The Colas c10.20

c10.20

7. L. V. Ramaswami Aiyar, to whom I referred the question, wrote to me as follows: 'Tam. *Cōḷa* does not appear to be directly connected with any extant Tamil or Dravidian base. This fact of course need not necessarily lead us to postulate a foreign origin for the word. * * * * * If the postulate that—*ū*—may have in some circumstances (for which we have parallels in Dravidian) changed to—ō— is justified, then one might conceivably connect *Cōla* with *Cūḷ*— with the meanings "to whirl," "to hover", and explain "*Cōḷa*" as "hoverer."'