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¹ The monuments, as distinct from the copperplates, show that 'the Pallava kingdom extended all along the Coromandel coast from Kālahasti in the north to Pudukottai in the south, and was bounded on the west by the Eastern Ghāts' (Jouveau-Dubreuil, *Pallava Antiquities*, vol. viii, p. 43). Kālahasti town is in N. Arcot District, in 13° 45′ N. and 79° 42′ E. The limits from north to south include N. Arcot, Chingleput, S. Arcot, Trichinopoly and Tanjore Districts. Pudukottai town is in 10° 23′ N. and 78° 49′ E. in the State of the same name. Traditionally the northern part of the State belonged to the Cholas and the southern to the Pāṇḍyas; so the Pallava dominion evidently extended over the Chola country to the Pāṇḍya boundary. Pudukottai is near the centre of the State.