Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.199

c7.199

Kaḍāram (or Kiḍāram).—It is now the headquarters of the taluk of Ramnad Zemindary in the Madura district (S.I.I., II, p. 106). Kaḍāram, being the first port of call for ships from India to Further India and China, was the place best known to the people of the Tamil country and, therefore, Tamil inscriptions refer to the conquest of Kaḍāram. The smaller Leyden copperplates dated 1090 A.D. record an embassy from Kaḍāram to the Coḷa court at Āyiraṭṭali (E.I., XXII, 267-71).