South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.73

c13.s1.73

12. *Jayangoṇḍaśolapuram.*—This is about six miles from Gangaigoṇḍaśolapuram on the road to Uḍaiyārpāḷayam. The Pāṇḍya Māravarman Kulaśēkhara, A.D. 1168 to 1311, is said to have had his palace outside this town in a garden, and that is the only occasion in which, so far as we know at present, it was the capital city. Jayangoṇḍa Śoḷa was a title assumed by the great Chola Rājādhiraja, the immediate successor of Rājēndra I; probably he founded the city and by him it was intended to be a royal city as well. Bir Dhul of the Muhammadan historians is identifiable with this on the supposition that it might have had an alternative name Śoḷapuram as the capital of Vīra Pāṇḍya, the son of Kulaśēkhara and possibly his successor in these parts; or the last great Chola Kulottunga III who called himself Tribhuvanavīra, might have given the name to the capital in his reign.