The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.203

c8.203

A.D. 769-70. The Vēlvikuḍi grant, decided by the Epigraphist V. Venkayya to belong to this date, is important for the history of the Pāṇḍya kingdom. It was issued in the third regnal year of Pāṇḍya Jaṭila-Parāntaka *alias* ‘Tennan-Vānavan.’ Before this year he is stated to have defeated the ‘Kāḍava’, i. e., the Pallava king Nandivarman II at Pennāgaḍam (on the south bank of the Kāvērī river). He had also defeated the Āyavēḷ chiefs of Vēṇāḍ (Travancore), and the Kurumbas at Nāṭṭukuṟumbu. His later battles are said to have been at Viṇṇam, Vēlūr, Śeḷiyakuḍi, Āyiravēli, Āyirūr and Pugaliyūr; and it is claimed for him that he destroyed Viḷiṇam, and fortified Karavandapuram. (*See below, s.v., A.D. 783.*)