The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.317

c8.317

A.D. 909. An inscription of the Chōḷa king Parāntaka I's third year. His father Āditya I having conquered the Pallavas (as above shewn), and the W. Gangas having defeated the Noḷamba-Pallava chief, Parāntaka, shortly after his accession, made war on the Pāṇḍyas. He captured their capital city Madura, and assumed the name by which he is known in the record under notice, viz., ‘Madurai-koṇḍa.’ By this victory he regained possession of the territory of the earlier Chōḷas, which for many years had fallen into the hands of the Pāṇḍya kings, and also became lord over the old Pāṇḍya kingdom.