South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.6.2

c8.6.2

He made a further dash northwards from Vēdāḷai as the base, surprised Dēviyāpaṭṭaṇam (Dēvipaṭṭaṇam, as it is now called) and marched further forwards to Śiriyavala.³ He returned therefrom apparently by way of Kāḷaiyārkoil-Paramaguḍi road and took the two places Aṇivalakkoṭṭa (sometimes called Aṇivalakki in the narrative) and the fortress of Neṭṭūr.⁴ These became afterwards the headquarters of the Ceylon army. While here, information reached the general that one of the sons of Parākrama Pāṇḍya was a fugitive in the Malayāḷam country. This was Vīra Pāṇḍya. Laṅkāpura sent him a message asking him to come over and join him. Sending intimation of this discovery to his master, he marched across, apparently at the instance of Vīra Pāṇḍya to Periyakuḷam in the ghats, and gained possession of Mēlamaṅgalam and Kīḷamaṅgalam. He thought it better to hand these over on terms to the chieftain from whom he took them, and returned to his head-quarters at Aṇivaḷakkoṭṭa. Proceeding from there to Neṭṭūr he made a dash against another place not very far, which is called Mānavīramadura, apparently Manamadura, now a railway station. He defeated the chieftains who held the place, and brought the place under his authority. He then found a number of chieftains collected together at Pātapathā (a place I am not yet able to identify), assaulted the place and took it. He found it necessary now to march north-eastwards to Anjukoṭṭai near Tiruvāḍānai.