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1 Unfortunately, not more than one third of the Tamil inscriptions that have been discovered have been published. The historian is compelled to remain at the mercy of the Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy for summarized knowledge of the most valuable inscriptions of the later Chola Period.
3 Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy (ARE), No 300 of 1928-29<& No 114 of 1946-47. s ARE 20 of 1945-46 & 84 of 1946-47.
4 N Vanamamalai, Studies in Tamil Folk Literature, p 106, New Century Book House,
Madras, 1969. s ARE 464 of 1911. • ARE 361 & 362 of 1914. 7 ARE 216 of 1917.
» South Indian Inscriptions (SII), Vol 6, Nos 50 & 58. 9 ARE 620 of 1909. i° SII, Vol 6, 295. n ARE 92 of 1918. ia ARE 69 of 1924. 13 ARE 80 of 1925. l* Ibid. 15 South Indian Temple Inscriptions (SITI), Vol 2, No 783, Oriental Manuscript Library,
Madras, 1957. i» ARE 188 of 1925. 17 N Vanamamalai, op. cit., p 106. i» SII, Vol 7, No 759. i® Introduction to South Indian Temple Inscriptions (SITI), cited by N Vanamamalai,
op. cit., p 106. 20 Kammalars refer to five categories of artisans: carpenters, blacksmiths, metal workers,
goldsmiths and stone workers. 2*• SII, Vol 3, No 25. 22 SII, Vol 5, No 238. 2 a SII, Vol 5, No 283. 24 ARE of 46 of 1897 & 311 of 1911. 2 5 ARE 554 of 1904. 2* ARE 93 of 1910. 2 7 ARE 32 of 1936-37. " ARE 262 of 1950-51. ^ ARE 31 of 1937. so ARE 189 of 1895. 81 T N Subramaniam, SITI, Vol 3, Part II, Introduction, p 98 (in Tamil).
•2 Ibid.
s» ARE 171 of 1925.
» ^ V R Ramachandra Dikshithar, Moondram Kulothunga Cholan (Kulothunga III), p 92, P Varadachari & Company, Madras, 1946.
•ff ARE 92 of 1946-47.
8< ARE 213 of 1925.
» ' ARE 309 of 1927.
s s ARE 246 of 1928 & 254 of 1929.
so T N Subramaniam, op. cit., p 89.
4 o Ibid., p 90; K K Pillay, Tamilaka Varalaru; Makkalum Panpadum (History of Tamil, Nadu: The People and Their Tradition), Tamil Nadu Text Book Society, 1972;
K A N Sastry, The Cholas, p 295, University of Madras 1955 and V R Ramachandra Dikshithar, op. cit., p 16.
41 ARE 31 of 1936-37.
4 2 N Vanamamalai, op. cit., p 108.
