The Colas c10.49

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³² See Geiger's *Mahāvaṁsa* chh. xxi-xxv for the narrative. Geiger thinks that ‘Cōḷa-country’ means ‘Southern India.’ (*Trans.* p. 143 n. 4). This is unnecessary and seems to go against the precise expressions in the original, like *Cēḷa-raṭṭha* (xxi 13) and *dakkhiṇaṁ Madhuraṁ puraṁ Pāṇḍu-rājassa* (vii, 50), besides the common form Damiḷa employed of both countries. Further, the story of the justice done by the king to the cow that lost its calf narrated of Eḷāra in the *MV.* is localised at