The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.253

c8.253

When he hurriedly marched back to Madura, the Pāṇḍya king's army was depleted, the king fought, was wounded and fled, only to die of his injury. This would fix the date as about A.D. 878, Varaguṇa II's last year, and if so the rebel prince may have been his own brother Parāntaka-Vīranārāyaṇa. But this fixture is only supposition as the Singhalese chronology is not quite finally settled. (Mahāwaṃśa, ch. li.)]