The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.97

c8.97

The *Mahāwaṃśa* relates that at this time about A.D. 496, a Tamilian named Pāṇḍu probably a Pāṇḍya prince, landed in Ceylon with an armed force, slew king Mittasēna who had, in the previous year, usurped the throne of the island, and himself seized it. Pāṇḍu surrounded himself with Tamils, and he and several successors ruled Ceylon for over twenty years. (*Mahāwaṃśa ch. xxxviii.*)