The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.133
The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.133
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Kolkai—The capital of Pāṇḍya at the mouth of the river Tāmraparṇī in Tinnevelli, now five miles inland; it is the Kael of Marco Polo. It is identified also with Tuticorin (see Kalki). It is evidently the Kara of the Buddhist Birth-Story Agastya Jataka. It is the Kolkhoi Ptolemy. For an account of Kolkhoi (see Yule's Marco Polo, vol. II, p. 309 n., and Dr. Caldwell's Dravidian Comparative Grammar, 3rd ed., p. 12).