The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.16

c12.16

But if Vīra Pāndya succeeded in repelling what was perhaps the first attempt to recover Chola power in the south at the end of the Rāshtrakūta occupation, his success did not leave any permanent results. The son and successor of Parāntaka II on the Chola throne seems to have avenged his father's defeat by proceeding against Vīra Pāndya in sufficient strength to inflict a crushing defeat on him and then to capture and decapitate him. And this victory of Āditya is referred to in an inscription (No. 472 of 1908) of the second year of his reign so that it seems quite possible that this success was won even in his father's life time.¹ Vīra Pāndya then did not reap the benefits of his victory over Sundara for more than fifteen to twenty years at the most. But he seems to have made good use of this brief respite secured by him. His inscriptions contain references to a Cholāntaka Brahmarāya, a Cholāntaka Pallavarayan and a Cholāntakan nāḷi (grain-measure). Cholāntaka was probably a surname assumed by Vīra Pāndya after his successful fight with the Cholas¹ and the reference to the nāḷi may imply that the king found time to regulate the weights and measures used in the land. Six inscriptions of this king from the Ramnad district refer to a Sundara Pāndya Īśvaram Uḍaiyār temple in Tiruccuḷi Paḷḷimaḍam, a village in the district; it is not possible to say who this Sundara Pāndya was though it seems certain that he must have been closely connected with Vīra Pāndya.