The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.2

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According to tradition, the Chola country (*Choḷamaṇḍalam*) was bounded on the north by the Pennār, and on the south by the southern Vellāru river; or, in other words, it extended along the eastern coast from Nellore to Pudukottai, where it abutted on the Pāndya territory. On the west it reached to the borders of Coorg. The limits thus defined include Madras, and several other British districts on the east, as well as the greater part of the Mysore state.¹ The most ancient historical capital was Uraiyūr, or Old Trichinopoly, so far as is known with certainty.² A town called North Mañalūr, of which the position is not known, is said to have been the Chola capital in prehistoric times.³