The Colas c11.81

c11.81

With these considerations before us, it is no longer true that one has to depend on the mere identity of the name to accept the Gajabāhu synchronism. Once that is accepted, it follows that, as Śeṅguṭṭuvan and his contemporaries had some generations of predecessors and successors, the best working hypothesis is to assign the Śaṅgam Age to the first three or four centuries of the Christian era.