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³ *Progress Report, Epigraphy, 1905–6*, in *Madras G.O., Public*, No. 492, July 2, 1906, paras. 10, 16. ‘The Chōḷa king who extended his sovereignty over the Tōṇḍaināḍu was, as we know from other sources, Rāja Kēsarivarman Āditya, the first. He allied himself with the Pāṇḍya king, Varaguṇa Pāṇḍya, and uprooted the Pallava dynasty, and extended his dominions over the whole of the Tōṇḍaināḍu. Therefore, Āditya ought to have lived about the second half of the ninth century, for we know Varaguṇa Pāṇḍya reigned from A. D. 862–3 upwards’ (*Travancore Archaeol. Series*, vol. ii, p. 77). Jouveau-Dubreuil (*Pallavas*, p. 66) dates Varaguṇa's accession about A. D. 854.