Studies in Cola History and Administration c10.11

c10.11

consideration suburbs like Tiruppulivalam. Almost in the heart of the town, on the main road stands the Vaikuṇṭha-perumāḷ temple, of which nothing of the original structure seems to have survived except the high basement which carries the most valuable inscriptions of the locality on its sides. A little to the west within a few furlongs, are the Sundaravarada and Subrahmaṇya temples very close to each other. To reach the big tank of Uttaramērūr, doubtless the celebrated Vairamēgha-taṭāka of our inscriptions, a name no longer remembered, one has to go more than a mile to the west from the westernmost limits of the modern town, bearing the historic names Rājāmēḍu and Māḷigaimēḍu, the mound of the king and the mound of the palace. It is possible that excavation at these spots may yield results that would justify these popular names.