The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.13

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³ Messrs. Krishna Sastri and K. V. Subramanya Aiyar come to the conclusion that Parāntaka II was the king who claims to have driven the Pāndya to the forest and who is referred to as the king who died in the Golden Hall. (See *S.I.I.*, vol. iii, p. 255; *E. I.*, vol. xii, pp. 124-5; the only references are those given by Mr. Aiyar and they are not such as to bear his interpretation.) The inscriptions relied on by Messrs. Sastri and Aiyar are all very fragmentary with the possible exception of the vague reference in *verse* 63 of the Kanyākumārī inscription of Virarājendra (*Trav. Arch. Series*, vol. iii, p. 144). Venkayya accepts the identification of Ponmālgait-tunjinadēva with Parāntaka II but says nothing of the other attribute (*S.I.I.*, vol. ii, Introduction, p. 1; see also No. 302 of 1908).