The Colas c18.s2.99

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¹²⁹ *Pattuppāṭṭu* p. 550 (3rd Edn.). Skt. Kaṭāha and Tamil Kaḍāram are, as pointed out by Coedès (*op. cit.* p. 20; also Ferrand, *JA.* 1922 pp. 5-1), semantically related, and mean 'a copper cauldron'; Tam. Kaḍāram has also the sense of 'brown colour bordering on the black', and Kāḷagam the sense of 'blackness.' Apparently this synonymity has induced Naccinārkkiniyar and the lexicographers to gloss Kāḷagam by Kaḍāram. Kaḍāram and Kiḍāram are evidently different readings of the same toponym; they have, however, no phonetic connection with Kaṭāha or with Kāḷagam.