South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c9.12

c9.12

*Māravarman Sundara Pāṇḍya II*.—His successor of the name who ruled from A.D. 1238 to 1255 does not appear to have done much. There are a few records of his however, which give us an interesting insight into the political condition of the Chola country. A record of his fourteenth year refers to the construction of a temple by a person called Tirupuḷḷāṇi Dāsar at Kiḷachevval ² for which the required land was given by a lady Pammiyakkan. The name sounds Kanarese, and the lady that bore the name may have been a member of the Hoysala family, which had entered into marriage relations with the Cholas and the Pāṇḍyas. One of the queens of Vīra Ballāḷa II went by the name Chola Mahādēvi as was already stated. It seems likely that Rājarāja had married either a sister or a daughter of Ballāḷa’s son Narasimha who first intervened in the affairs of the Chola country. Hoysala Somēśvara is referred to in a record of Māravarman Sundara Pāṇḍya as Māmiḍi, meaning uncle.¹ At the request of this uncle, Māravarman Sundara made a grant of the village to a Brahman, and called the village Vīra Somi Chatur-vēdimangalam after the name of the uncle. This fact is found recorded in a grant of the eleventh year of Sundara Pāṇḍya, which would correspond to A.D. 1250. Apart from these references we find a general of the Hoysala king by name Appana Daṇḍanāyaka settling disputes at Tirumeyyam in the Pudukoṭṭa State,² a clear indication of the grip that Vīra Somēśvara had over the Chola country proper extending down to the frontier of the Pāṇḍyas.