The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.284

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Chola—The Coromandel Coast bounded on the north by the river Pennar or the southern Pinâkinî river, and on the west by Coorg, including the country of Tanjore, *i.e.* from Nellore to Pudukottai. Its capitals were Uraiyur on the Kâverî (the Orthoura of Ptolemy—the royal city of Sornagos) near Trichinopoly in the second century A. D., and Kâñchipura, Combaconum and Tanjore (Tanjepur) in the eleventh century (*Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. III, p. 283). Chola was also called Drâviḍa (*Padma P.*, Âdikhaṇḍa, ch. 6), and is said to have derived its name from Chola, king of Kâñchipura (*Ibid.*, Uttara Kh., ch. 74). The Chola kingdom merged as a marriage-dowry into the Pâṇḍya kingdom and continued so for 570 years (*Wilson's Mackenzie Collection*; *Intro.*, p. 51).