The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.18

c10.18

M. Dubreuil (*The Pallavas*, p. 71) may or may not be right in supposing 'that the Pallava Nṛpatunga profited by the invasion of the Pāndya kingdom by the Singhalese'; but he is clearly misquoting verse 17 of the Bāhūr plates in support of his theory of the alliance of Nṛpatunga and Sēna II, which, he says, 'seems to be confirmed by the Bāhūr plates which say that Nṛpatunga's fame had spread *beyond the seas as that of Rāma*'. (italics mine). The text is '*Khyāto na Kēvalam Bhumāvamusminnapi Rāmavat*' = famed not only on earth, but in other worlds like Rāma. I am also unable to follow him when he says that Śrīmāra was defeated at Kumbakonam in the face of the definite statement in the Sinnamanūr plates that Śrīmāra repulsed a great confederation of his foes at Kuḍamūkku. See also his remarks under Nṛpatunga at p. 81 of his *Pallavas*.