The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.218

c8.218

A.D. 783-84. Madras Museum plates of the seventeenth year of the Pāṇḍya king Jaṭila-Parākrama. The events of his reign up to date are enumerated. He fought battles at Viṇṇam, Śeḷiyakkudi and Veḷḷūr. He warred with the ‘Adiyan’ (Adigaiman) of Tanjore and the kings of the Pallava and Kerala families (the Pallava was possibly a Nolamba-Pallava chief of Uchchangi). He defeated the Adiyan of Tanjore at Ayirūr, Pugaliyūr, and at Āyiravēli on the north bank of the Kāvēri. He went to the Kongu country, captured its ruler, subdued the country and advanced as far as Pērūr in Coimbatore District. He fought the king of Vēṇāḍ (Travancore), and destroyed the Chēra stronghold Viḷiṇam.² He fortified Karavandapuram.³ (I. A. 1893, p. 57 ; Trav. Arch. Ser. i, 153, 188.)