on zankara's date - 2

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <Palaniappa at AOL.COM> wrote:

>If the name vikramAditya is not really relevant as Vidyasankar says, then a
>ninth century date can satisfy both Cambodian and Tamil data.

I don't think it is irrelevant. I only think it is difficult to zero down
on who exactly this vikramAditya is. I think that efforts to reach a modern
notion of certainty in such matters often tend to be misguided.

Vidyasankar