The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.31

c10.31

Kongu country. It is not possible, in the present state of our knowledge, to attempt to elucidate the battle of Kharagiri, the destruction of Pennāgaḍam and the fight in Kongu. The last two events may be taken as some evidence that, though hard pressed by its foes, the Pāndya power was still struggling to maintain itself in foreign lands. And the name of the queen suggests that she was a Chera princess, and it may be tentatively assumed that the name of Śeravanmahādēvi, a flourishing little town adjacent to the railway station Shermadevi in the Tinnevelly district, has some connection with the name of this queen. Perhaps this marriage is also some indication that, for one reason or another, the reign of this king was marked by happier relations with the Chera kings than was usual in this age. We may assign conjecturally the last twenty years of the ninth century as the period of this king's rule.