The Colas c34.30

c34.30

Among the authors of the ninth Book of the Canon, Gaṇḍarāditya may be definitely identified with the son of Parāntaka I.³⁸ The attempt to identify Śēndanār with Tirumāḷigaittēvar on the strength of an inscription of the reign of Rājarāja I from Tiruvīḷimiḷalai³⁹ can hardly be considered satisfactory; the inscription cited does not seem to furnish conclusive proof of the identity, and it seems unlikely that tradition could in this instance have erred so far as to make two authors out of one; for we should not forget that the arrangement of the Canon seems to have reached its present form before the age of Umāpati. Karuvūr-dēvar who has hymns on three Cōḷa temples, the Ādityēśvara at Kaḷandai, the Rājarājēśvara at Tanjore, and the Gaṅgaikoṇḍacōḷēśvara at Gaṅgaikoṇḍa-cōḷapuram, was as his name indicates a native of Karuvūr, and the legends centring round his name have found a place in the *Karuvūr Purāṇam*.⁴⁰ He may be assigned to the first half of the eleventh century A.D. It is possible that Nambi Kāḍa Nambi who has sung two hymns, one each on Tiruvārūr and Kōyil (Cidambaram) was identical with the Ātrēya Nambi Kāḍa Nambi, an *arcaka* mentioned in an inscription dated A.D. 1050 from Tiruvaiyāṟu.⁴¹