The Colas c12.125

c12.125

31. ll. 187-8—*mudiyōr-avai-puku-poḻudir-ṟam pakai muraṇśela-vum*. Here '*mudiyōr*' is to be taken in contrast with the '*iḷaiyōr*' immediately preceding in the sentence *iḷaiyōr vaṇḍal-ayaravum*. Naccinārkkiniyar indeed does not do so, and understands '*mudiyōr*' to mean 'old men', and finds occasion to introduce the legend about Karikāla putting on a wig of grey hair in order to appear older than the old men who came to lay their differences before him.