The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c11.2.2

c11.2.2

It is certain that these rulers held large portions of the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts and possibly parts of Pudukottah for several generations and that the centre of their power was somewhere in the district of Tanjore. Sendalai, at present a small village near Tirukkāṭṭupaḷḷi, appears once to have been a flourishing town with the beautiful name Candralēkhā, and either this place or Niyamam in its neighbourhood was most probably the centre of Muttaraya rule. There is even now in existence a village by name Muttaraśanallūr within five miles of Trichinopoly. It is well known that a Perumuttarayan is mentioned twice in the Nālaḍiyār. The inscriptions from the Sendalai pillars mention three continuous generations of the Muttarayar; the last of them was Śuvaraṇ Māran alias Perumbiḍugu Muttarayan who claims to have fought at many places on behalf of the Pallavas and against the Pāndyas. There is also a curious coincidence in strange birudas between these rulers and the Pallava kings:—examples are Perumbiḍugu and Viḍēlviḍugu. These facts might lead one to suppose that these rulers were the subordinate allies of their Pallava contemporaries. On the other hand, there are other facts which seem to make it necessary to modify this conclusion. First, some kings of the Muttaraya line date their records in their own regnal years (18 of Iḷangō Muttarayan in No. 12 of 1899 from Sendalai).