The Colas c33.113

c33.113

70. Names like Lakulīśvara and Caturānana are titles rather than personal names. Failure to grasp this fact firmly has led to some confused writing. Fleet made the mistake of supposing that the founder of Pāśupata was the same as Lakulīśa of the Mēlpāḍi inscriptions, (*EI.* v. p. 288; *contra* Gopinatha Rao, *op. cit.*, pp. 17 ff), who is again identified with his namesake of Jambai (*ARE.* 1907, II, 39). The latter identification is not, like the former, a chronological impossibility; but it is improbable that the same man was in charge of important religious duties at Mēlpāḍi and Jambai about the same time. The Tiruvoṟṟiyūr inscriptions leave no manner of doubt that Caturānana was the title of the head of the local *maṭha* borne by a succession of persons who held the office.