The Colas c11.84

c11.84

² This is how the obscure line *pirangu-nilai-māḍattu-uṛandai-pōkki* (l. 285) of the *Paṭṭinappālai* has been generally understood by modern writers. But under the name of Kākandi (*Maṇimēkalai*-xxii, l. 37) the city seems to have had great celebrity from very early times. Cf. n 2 at p. 561 of *Pattuppāṭṭu*³ (1931). A nun Sōmā from this place seems to be mentioned in the Barhut inscriptions of the second century B.C. (Lūders, No. 817). The *Śilappadikāram* gives a legend of the foundation of Uṟaiyūr (Kōḻi) being due to a cock (kōḻi) winning in a fight against an elephant on the spot, x ll. 247-8.