The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.15

c10.15

Mr. Venkayya also adds: ‘If the story of the *Mahāvaṃśa* be true, the discontented Pāṇḍya prince whether he was Māyāpāṇḍya or Ugra Pāṇḍya must have been on the Pāṇḍyan throne for sometime before he was replaced by No. 12 Parāntaka.’ I am unable to concede that the story of the *Mahāvaṃśa* is true or that there was an interruption in the regular succession recorded in the Sinnamanūr plates. See however, K. V. S. Aiyar, *Ancient Dekhan*, pp. 140-1 who identifies Ugra with the protege of Sēna II.