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One can study the philosophical, religious, geographical and other such knowledge. Kampan’s geographical knowledge of South India, as my of d friend late Lamented Paul Nadar had pointed out is not what we would expect in the age of the Imperias Colas. The religious knowledge, it is my impression not my well established conclusion, in Kampan reflects the Trimurti conception of the Pallava age and the gradual passage from the non sectarian to the sectarian outlook with not much of religious animosity or philosophical solidification. Archaeology Architecture, Iconography and sculpture may throw new łights. One may try to get at the architecture hinted at in Kampan and this will be a worthwhile study from what I learn from the great expert on Kampanology Thiru Sa Ganesan. He has also mentioned and he would certainly explain at length that the friezes in the old Halabedu Temple in a series of Ramayana story's panels depict the particular version where Ravana coming as a sanyasi with one head carries away Sita with her hermitage which appears like a nest. (2) where Ravana fighting against Catayu the eagle cuts it down and (3) where he assumes his original ten headed shape and carries Sita and her hermitage in his car, a version which is peculiarly Kampan's (Kampan probably got the hint from Kurma Purana which agreed more with the conception of Tamilian chastity) and which therefore must be earlier than the age of Kulotunka III. A careful study of sculpture elsewhere may throw similar light. The ornaments especially the non-mention of nose ornaments etc. may also help us to fix the age if we are in a position to arrive at a chronological frame of reference. It is thus clear how our cognitive aspect of his literary study has contacts almost with all kinds of studies. But coming to literature itself, from the literary point of view, one may find out the literary tradition which can be dated and which may therefore help us to fix the upper limit of such a tradition. For instance, the development of 96 Prabhandas was a 1 74