Parvata in VP 2.486-"grandhamAtrE vyvasthitaH"

[Senthuran Nagalingam]

Mr. Vidyanath Rao wrote:
>This story got distorted over time, especially among
>those who didn't understand that the queen's Sanskrit

>was faulty. But the true story was preserved in the
>Potiyil tradition --- the king's original Sanskrit
>teacher came from there --- and has come down
>(karNaparampara) to some pandits of the area. In fact

>I learned the true story from one of them.

Quite possible. Look at the famous Satavahana
bilingual
coin - Tamil on one side, Prakrit on the other. The
king's name is inscribed on the coin.


-Senthuran, N.
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