The Colas c18.s2.96

c18.s2.96

¹²⁶ *Op. cit.* pp. 16-18. The name Tāmralinga which Coedès obtains from a Sanskrit inscription from Jaiya (*ibid.*, p. 32) is near enough to Tan-ma-ling and Tamālingam, or Tamalingam, and there should be no difficulty in accepting the view that all the three forms are variants of the same name. Coedès' suggestion that the Tamil name might be read 'Tamaralingam' (p. 17) is therefore unnecessary; it is inadmissible as 'Mādamālingam' (or Mādamalingam) alliterates with the first half of the line '*titamāvalvinai*' in the Tamil inscriptions, and the sound '*ra*' is, by the rules of Tamil prosody, quite impossible in the second half of the line; but *tīdamar val-vinai mā Damarlingam* is a possible reading of the Tamil line, according to Desikavināyakam Pillai.