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Rh race whose ancestors had occupied the regions watered by the Jamna. This may be inferred boih from the name of the king and that of his capital which was called Madura after the celebrated city which adorned of old, as it does still the banks of that great tributary of the Ganges.' The kingdom is mentioned by Pliny (A. D. 77), by the author of the Periplus of the Erythran Sea and by Ptolemy.

In his commentary on the prefatory sutra to the Tolkapyam, Nacchinarkiniyar describes a tradition relating to the migration of the Dravidian race, which is as follows:- The sage Agastya repaired to Dwarka (Tam. Tuvarapati) and, taking with him eighteen kings of the line of Sri Krishna, eighteen families of Vels or Velirs and others, moved to the South with the Aruvalar tribes, There, he had all the forests cleared and built up kingdoms settling therein all the people he had brought with him. One of the principalities thus founded by him was Dwarasamudram in the Mysore State, Kapilar, a Brahman poet probably of the second century A. D., addresses the reigning