The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.19.3

c12.19.3

Even the name of the Pāndya country undergoes a change and becomes Rāja-rāja-Mandalam or Raja-rāja-Pāndinādu in the Chola records;¹ and we come to hear of a sub-division Pāndya-kulāśani-valanādu for the first time in the age of Rāja Rāja or possibly a little earlier.² Among the queens of Rāja Rāja is one Pancavanmahādēvi referred to in inscriptions from the tenth year of Rāja Rāja (No. 254 of 1907); and in the twenty-eighth year of the king a grant is made by one of his queens Vēmban Śīrudaiyār alias Mīnavan Mahādēviyār.³ Rāja Rāja apparently also used the Pāndya country as a base for a successful raid on Ceylon between the seventeenth and twentieth years of his reign.⁴ A Tanjore inscription of the twenty-fourth year of Rāja Rāja⁵ contains an order dealing with defaulters in land-revenue in Pāndinādu alias Rāja-rāja-valanādu, among others. Above all, Rāja Rāja's son and successor Rājēndra inherited the Pāndya country from his father. His Inscriptions are found in places like Tinnevelly and Cape Comorin in the Pāndya country which he does not claim to have conquered.¹ Rājēndra’s relations with the Pāndya kingdom can be traced clearly from the records of his time. The Pāndyas of the old line seem to have continued their rule in a subordinate capacity; an inscription in the third year of Rājēndra (No. 46 of 1907) from Tiruvīsalūr in the Tanjore district, records a gift of ornaments by the queen of the Pāndya king, Śrīval-luvar. In the sixth year of his reign, A.D.