The Colas c3.4

c3.4

My obligations to previous writers will be evident from the notes. For the new chapter on Art I have availed myself of the writings of the late Jouveau-Dubreuil and of Mr. Percy Brown in particular. The sources of the illustrations are indicated in the description of plates, and it will be noticed that I owe most of the illustrations to the courtesy of the Director-General of Archaeology. Mr. K. R. Srinivasan has allowed me to reproduce some photographs in his private collection. Mr. N. Lakshminarayana Rao, Government Epigraphist for India, not only extended ample facilities for consulting texts of inscriptions, but furnished some valuable references, placed his transcript of the Karandai Plates at my disposal, and also permitted me to reproduce the excellent seal of these plates, the better preserved of the two seals on them; this now takes the place of the seal of the Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates included in the first volume of the first edition.