History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c11.71

c11.71

²⁵ Professor Aiyenger says, the nearest South Indian Equivalent of Kubban could be only Koppam referred to in the preamble to the inscription of Jatavarman Sundara Pandya as Kannanur-koppam. Kannanur is about eight or nine miles from Trichinopoly. The learned Professor thinks that Kannanur passed into the hands of the Muhammadans either during the invasion of Malik Kafur himself, or in the interval between that and this last battle. The change of capital to Tiruvannamalai was intended by the Hoysalas to serve as a counter-work to Kannanur which had passed into Muslim hands. South India and her Muhammadan Invaders, pp. 173–75.