The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.22

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¹ See *S.I.I.*, vol. ii, Intro., pp. 2-3. Venkayya also says: 'A place named Udagai (உதகை) is mentioned in connection with the conquest of the Pāṇdyas (p. 250, n. 3). The *Kalingattup-paraṇi* refers to the "storming of Udagai" in the verse which alludes to the reign of Rāja Rāja. The *Kulōttunga-Śōḷan-Ulā* also mentions the burning of Udagai. This was probably an important stronghold in the Pāṇdya country which the Chola king captured.' But the *Kalingattup-paraṇi*, verse viii. 22, clearly implies that Udagai was not in the Pāṇdya country but outside the traditional limits of that kingdom; therefore Mr. Venkayya's note to the passage quoted above is more to the point: 'The Kiḷūr inscription of Rāja Rāja's twenty-seventh year (No. 236 of 1902) which is partly mutilated, supplies a historical introduction of the king in Tamil poetry, different from the usual திருமகள் போல etc., and mentions the king's conquest of Udagai in his campaign against Malaināḍu. As already stated the Pāṇdya country must have also included Malaināḍu at the time of Rāja Rāja's conquest.' On Kāṇḍaḷūr Śālai, see *Trav. Arch. Series*, vol. ii, pp. 2-5 for a more likely interpretation. Pandit M. Raghava Aiyangar is inclined to interpret all references to காந்தளூர்ச்சாலைக் கலமறுத்தல் as suppressions of local risings. But there are difficulties in accepting this view also.