However, Dravidologist and professor of history, P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, in his book History of the Tamils from the Earliest Times to 600AD, claims that the Kanjiyur mentioned in early Tamil poems was not Kanchipuram at all but a different town altogether.
Gjithësesi, dravidologjisti dhe profesori i historisë P. T. Srinivasa Iyengari, në librin e tij History of the Tamils from the Earliest Times to 600 AD, pohon se Kanjiyuri i përmendur në poemat e hershme tamile nuk ishte Kanchipurami, por një qytet tjetër.