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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1391
Pp. 273-74. The distance from Puhar to Tiruchi and from Tiruchi to modern Mudarai is, in each case about 100 miles. The town that was destroyed is referred to in the Sangam literature as Kudal and Manamadurai. It must have been a town at the confluence of a tributory of the Vaigai-either the present Manamadurai (Railway Junction or some other town nearer the sea than modern Madurai).
P. 274. Kannaki declares herself as the daughter of the Pandyan--an epithet frequently applied to the present Goddess Mināksi. Local tradition points out a small temple near the river as the original Pattani temple dedicated to Kannaki. Were the honours later on transferred to Goodess Minākşi ?
1509
H, G. SHASTRI–The Purānic chronology of the Mauryan dynasty, (Proc., IHC., XXIInd Session), Bombay, 1959.
P. 81. 'Kusala' and 'Kulala' of the Puran as obviously stand for 'Kunala' known in Buddhist and Jain traditions as the name of the son of Asoka and father of Samprati.
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