Malaya 5th. cent corrected

[Chandrasekaran, Periannan]

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> From: N. Ganesan [mailto:naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM]

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> it is more likely to have been derived from campai/caNpu/campu
> meaning "elephant grass". campai also means "luxuriant growth".
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>   I think caNpai is the name of ciirkAzi. The tevaram saint
> Jaanacampantar born at ciirkAzi calls the town that way.

 A tEvAram publication says that cIrkAzi is called
caNpai (among about a nearly dozen other names)
after the type of grass and associates that grass with KrishNa
atoning at the cIrkAzi temple for his guilt regarding the destruction of
his clan due to campai grass.
It must also be noted that cIrkAzi seems to have been within the limits
of the ancient pUmpukAr metropolis. UVS Iyer states that sOmatIrtam and
cUryAtIrtam
of the nearby popular temple "tiruveNkATu" (swEtAraNyam)
must be the same as the cOmakuNTam and cUryakuNTam of pUmpukAr
mentioned by cilappatikAram and hence
the temple itself have been within the pUmpukAr metropolitan area.

chandra