The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.27

c10.27

Varagunavarman does not appear to have long survived the defeat at Śrī Purambiyam. He seems to have died childless and was followed on the throne by his younger brother Śrī Parāntaka alias Vīranārayana Śadayan. Three verses in the Sanskrit part of the Śinnamanūr plates state (i) that he captured single-handed the haughty Ugra near Kharagiri together with his elephants whose tusks were reeking of the blood of opposing forces killed in battle, (ii) that this pious king endowed many agrahāras, and numberless devasthānas and tatākas, and (iii) that he had for his queen Śrī Vānavan Mahādevī who resembled Lakṣmī and Indrāṇī, the consorts of Viṣṇu and Indra. The Tamil account generally confirms these statements and says further that he destroyed Pennāgadam and fought in the