The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.11
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.11
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¹ Cf. T. A. Gopinatha Rao in E.I., vol. xv; contra, H. K. Sastri in para 31, part ii, of A.R.E. for 1915. It is rather strange that Mr. Sastri should think that the larger Leiden grant says that a Vīra Pāndya was defeated by Sundara Chola. He also remarks: ‘The boast of Vīra Pāndya that he also took the head of the Chola king may be explained by assuming that before he was beheaded by Āditya II he would probably have killed a Chola.’ See also A.R.E., 1921, p. 109. The number of years (13) covered by the records of Vīra Pāndya ‘who took the head of the Chola’ preclude the supposition that he killed Sundara Chola and was himself killed soon after by Āditya II.