The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.11

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But Mr. Venkayya is not himself satisfied with the result he arrives at. He continues: ‘There is still another alternative. No. 12 Parāntaka is said to have seized a certain Ugra, apparently in the battle of Kharagiri. It may be that this Ugra was a Pāndya prince with whom the former had to fight for the throne.’ This makes matters worse. This Parāntaka did not reign till after his brother’s defeat at Srī Purambiyam; his brother ruled at least eight years from the close of his father’s reign; and it is not clear how anything that took place in the reign or just before the accession of Parāntaka II can throw any light on the identity of Māyāpāndya whom his father dealt