The Colas c18.s2.59

c18.s2.59

70. Dr. S. K. Aiyangar says that ‘Śādinagar of Tamil, hitherto read Ādinagar, Jājnagar of the Muhammadan historians,’ is no other than Yayātinagar, identified with Binka by Hiralal and said to have been founded by one of the early Kēsari kings of Orissa. (*Gangai-koṇḍa-Cōḷa* p. 550). But he does not say how he gets his new reading Śādinagar. The Tirumalai rock inscription clearly has ‘*vaṇkīrtti-yādinagar*’ (*EI.* ix p. 232, plate l. 8) and the Tanjore record equally clearly ‘*vaṇkīrtti Ādinagar*’ (*SII.* ii plate 3, l. 5, end); ‘*vaṇkīrttiy-yādinagar*’ is often found (77, 78, 78 A of 1895) and ‘*vaṇkīrtti-Ayāḍingar*’ in 171 of 1894—all of years 16 and 17. One may doubt also whether the rather colourless ‘*pūśurar śēr*’ applied to Kōśalai-nāḍu is susceptible of bearing the interpretation put on it by Dr. Aiyangar who sees in it some of the consequences of the invasions of Mahmūd of Ghazni (*ibid*).