The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.3

c12.3

After the conquest of Madura by Parāntaka I Chola and the flight of Rājasimha II about A.D. 920, the Pāndya country passed under Chola control and was subject to Parāntaka almost to the end of his reign. This is borne out by the inscriptions of Parāntaka found in the Pāndya country,¹ the latest of these being an inscription from Sucīndram in South Travancore dated in the fortieth year of the king corresponding to A.D. 947. In the thirty-eighth year of Parāntaka, he levied a rather heavy impost (daṇḍam) of 3,000 kalañju of gold on the members of the assembly of Kumbakonam (Tirukkuḍamūkku), and they agreed to pay the amount to the Pāṇḍippaḍai-yār, by which is perhaps meant the forces that distinguished themselves in the conquest of the Pāndya country.²