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intervening the visits of the two Chinese travellers, Fa-hien and Hiuen Tsang.
2. That the Palayan of Mūhoor who' was vanquished by Senguttuvan was the Mōhoor chieftain, whose territory according to Māmūlanār was attacked by the Mauryas in the course of their southward march.
3. That, therefore, the Mauryan invasion must have taken place during the time of Senguttuvan.
4. That, since the Mauryan power decayed in the second century A.D., the Mauryas referred to by the Sangam poets must be the Guptas who held imperial sway'in the 5th century A.D. and whom Māmūlanār expressly refers as Vamba Moriar.' (New Mauryas.) The publication of Cheran Senguttuvan at S.K. Ayyan
gar in his once arrested the attention of scholars. Rao Beginnings of Bahadur K. S. Srinivasa l'illai of Tanjore and History. Mr. K. G. Sesha Iyer of Trivandrum have controverted the Pundit's views in the pages of Sen Tamil and the Madras Christian College magazine respectively. Later on, Professor S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar took up the subject for re-examination of evidences and rightly concentrated his attention on this important topic. His Beginnings of South Indian History published a few years ago, was intended, perhaps as a final reply to the various theories propounded, regarding the date of the Sangam. His position in that work of his may be summarised by a series of statements thus :
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