South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.76

c13.s1.76

15. *Kaṇṇanūr*.—Kaṇṇanūr, Sanskrit Khaṇḍanapura, is known in Hoysala inscriptions as Trivikramapura. It is about five miles north of the island of Śrīrangam and was the place chosen and fortified by the Hoysala Somēśvara when he had effected a permanent lodgment in the Chola country to keep the aggressive Pāṇḍyas out. Both Somēśvara and his son Rāmanātha, had it as their capital. Though the Pāṇḍyas got so far the upper hand of it that they took the place several times, it continued in the possession of the Hoysalas till the Muhammadans took it ultimately; and ever since, it remained their chief encampment in that part of the country from which they sallied out in their various expeditions. Kaṇṇanūr is for reasons given in the text identified both with Kandūr of the early Muhammadan invasions which destroyed the place gradually, and with the Kobban of Ibn Batuta in the battle at which place Vīra Baḷḷāḷa III was put to death.