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Chap. 111.
TAN J ORE.
34.->
What, then, was that age ? Strange to say, though so complete
and uniform, and standing, as it does, almost alone, its date is not
known. Mr. Norman, a competent authority, in the text that accom-
panied Tripe's photographs, sajrs it was erected by Kadu Vettiya
Soran, or Cholan,1 a king reigning at Conjeveram in the beginning of
the 14th century. At one time I hoped it was earlier, but on the
whole I am now convinced that this must he very nearly the truth.
The Soubramanya is certainly one century, probably two centuries,
more modern. The Bull itself is also inferior in design, and therefore
more modern than those at Hullabld, which belong probably to the
13th century, and the architecture of his shrine cannot be carried
back beyond the loth century. It may even be considerably more
modern. It is disappointing to find the whole so recent in date, but
there seems no excuse for ascribing to this temple a greater antiquity
than that just mentioned.
1 Though so very important in Dra-
vidian history, we have not even now a
correct list of the Chola kings from the
year 1000 downwards. There certainly
is not one among the Mackenzie MSS.
The late Mr. Ellis, it is said, had one,
hut he determined not to publish any-
thing before he was forty years of age,
and before that time he swallowed a
hottleful of laudanum by mistake, and
was found dead in his bed one morning.
His papers served his successor's cook to
light fires for some years afterwards.
TAN J ORE.
34.->
What, then, was that age ? Strange to say, though so complete
and uniform, and standing, as it does, almost alone, its date is not
known. Mr. Norman, a competent authority, in the text that accom-
panied Tripe's photographs, sajrs it was erected by Kadu Vettiya
Soran, or Cholan,1 a king reigning at Conjeveram in the beginning of
the 14th century. At one time I hoped it was earlier, but on the
whole I am now convinced that this must he very nearly the truth.
The Soubramanya is certainly one century, probably two centuries,
more modern. The Bull itself is also inferior in design, and therefore
more modern than those at Hullabld, which belong probably to the
13th century, and the architecture of his shrine cannot be carried
back beyond the loth century. It may even be considerably more
modern. It is disappointing to find the whole so recent in date, but
there seems no excuse for ascribing to this temple a greater antiquity
than that just mentioned.
1 Though so very important in Dra-
vidian history, we have not even now a
correct list of the Chola kings from the
year 1000 downwards. There certainly
is not one among the Mackenzie MSS.
The late Mr. Ellis, it is said, had one,
hut he determined not to publish any-
thing before he was forty years of age,
and before that time he swallowed a
hottleful of laudanum by mistake, and
was found dead in his bed one morning.
His papers served his successor's cook to
light fires for some years afterwards.