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erroneous.
THE PODIYIL THEORY. 131 ''பழையன் மோகூர் அவயகம் விளங்க நான் மொழிக் கோசர் தோன்றி யன்ன.
-Mathuraikanchi. Thus further light is let in and we are told Theory
of Podiyil that the name of the Mōhoor chief who was buttle attacked by the Kōsar was Palayan, in whose * assembly place' the Kõsar appeared. Taking all these passages together and remembering that the poets who composed these verses were contemporaries, only one conclusion is possible, viz., that all these refer to only one and the same individual, 'Palayan, who was defeated, as has already been stated. by Senguttuvan. The sameness of the language and the similarity of the ideas as regards the Kõsar and the place of assembly strongly tend to confirm our view.
In this connection it must be pointed out that the wordl " பொதியில்' occurring in the poems of Māmūlanār and others have been interpreted to mean “ Podiyil hill” both by Professor S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar and Kanakasabhai Pillai. ' $155 en grasa y
cuori OUTBUI. ' simply means the lodiyil underneath the ancient and old banyan tree with its mighty branches. It is evident that this description of 'Podiyil • does not contain any attribute of a mountain. The poets would have undoubtedly chosen different epithets, if they had really intended to describe such a mountain as the Podiyil hill. But, as we have already seen, what they wanted to describe was 'the place of assembly,' where chiefs and ryots met
