The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.269

c8.269

A.D. 862. Between March 22 and November 22. Accession of the Pāṇḍya king Varaguṇa II. A great deal of fighting in his reign. By his fourth year he had carried his arms north-eastward towards Tanjore, and from thence he gained ground gradually across territory then ruled by the Pallavas, and under them by Chōla and Bāṇa chiefs, till he reached Araiśūr on the southern Pennār river where he encamped in his sixteenth year 877-8. In this campaign he reduced those chiefs temporarily, the former at Iḍavai; and he destroyed the fortifications of Vēmbil (modern Vēmbarrūr). In 877-78 he was attacked by the Ganga king Prithivipati I and the Pallava Aparājita in alliance, and during his enforced retreat he fought a battle at Śrīpurambiyam, or Tirupurambiyam, close to Kumbhakōṇam where he was defeated, Prithivipati I being killed in the action. The important inscriptions regarding events of his reign are the following—105, 414, 690, 705 of 1905; 51 of 1895; 84 of 1910; E. I. ix, 84; xi. 253; E. R. 1906, § 25; 1910, § 31. An officer of his, who had accompanied Varaguṇa when he captured the town of Iḍavai on the north bank of the Kāvēri, constructed a tank near Diṇḍigul (V. R. ii. Madura, 8; S. I. I. ii, 53).