Studies in Cola History and Administration c10.14

c10.14

∗ Uttiramēlūr, Uttaramallūr are other forms. The total ignorance that has prevailed in modern times of the true origin of the name is seen from the local tradition, recorded by Crole, that the town was built by Uttiakumaran son of a rāja who reigned in Virāṭa, a town on the Jumna river (Manual of the Chingleput District p. 132). I have not been able to get at the local sthalapurāṇa, the existence of which was reported to me by a teacher in the local High School when I visited the place.