Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t3.12

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In the following century (1310) the Coḷa and Pāṇḍya kingdoms were conquered by Muhammedans (Elliot, iii. pp. 51, 90, 203, etc.) and then by Vijayanagara; the inscriptions of the latter dynasty claim this, and grants in the S. Arcot district prove that it was the case so early as 1380, but even before the Muhammedan invasion the Coḷa kingdom had much declined, and the Madura kingdom was the chief one in the South, though it, with part of Coḷa, had been (as Mr. Rhys Davids proved) conquered by Ceylon (about 1173 A. D. Turnour, Mahavamso p. lxvi. *Bengal As. Soc. J.* No. 2 of 1872).