The years are cited sometimes as the Kollam year (of such-and-such a number), sometimes as the year (so-and-so) after Kollam appeared; and this suggests that the reckoning may possibly owe its origin to some event, occurring in A.D. 825, connected with one or other of the towns and ports named Kollam, on the Malabar coast; perhaps Northern Kollam in the Malabar district, perhaps Southern K