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that the division of the year into solar months and the naming of these months by the corresponding Rasis did not begin in Northern India till after the 5th century and that the adoption of this system in Southern India in the Tamil country must certainly have been later than its adoption in the north.
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(iii) Professor Ramaswami Ayyangar now Prof. Ramabrings forward a third piece of evidence in the swami Ay picture given in the work of the prevalence of dence concluBuddhism in the Island of Java. He points out that when Fahian visited the island about 400 A.D. he found various forms of error and Brahminism flourishing' in the island and that the Buddhists in the locality were not worth speaking of'; while in the last quarter of the seventh century when the Chinese pilgrim I-tsing visited the island it was essentially Buddhistic. This latter description tallies with the picture one forms of the island from what is stated in cantos 24 and 25 of Manimekalui. It is not an isolated word or phrase that is brought forward here but integral portions of the work. This new piece of evidence seems to be conclusive and we may now take it as proved that whatever may be the date of other works comprised in Sangam list, clearly belongs to the 6th or the 7th century A.D. The work is not of much literary merit and was probably put together by a monkish poetaster-a native apparently of Cholamandalam.
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"One important argument greatly relied on References to by Dr. Krishnaswami Ayyangar and other Pallavas. believers in the Gajabāhu-synchronism is the
