"Reader T.M. Sundararaman tells me that Kalki had in Ponniyin Selvan written all about the grant of the village of Anaimangalam for the upkeep of the Buddhist vihara in Nagapattinam and mentioned the copper plates recording the grant (Miscellany, April 15). All this, however, sheds no light on how these plates got to Leiden in Holland. Did the Dutch find them in Nagapattinam, which was capital of the Dutch Coromandel from 1660 to 1781? "