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 THE CHOLA KINGDOM 373 to Katyayana, and was recognized by Asoka as inde- pendent. Inasmuch as the great Maurya's authority unquestionably extended to the south of Chitaldurg in Mysore, and down to at least the fourteenth degree WATEK- LILIES IN BOTANIC GARDEN, MADRAS. From stereograph, copyright 1903, by Underwood & Underwood, New York. of latitude, the Chola kingdom of his time must have been of modest dimensions. A passage in the work of Ptolemy, the geographer of the second century A. D., is usually interpreted as referring to the Chola kingdom, and intimating that Arcot was then the capital. But the language used is