The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.40
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.40
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c12.40
⁴ Mr. K. V. Subramanya Aiyar says: 'The Pāndyas seem to have asserted their independence already during the reign of Kulōttunga I. At any rate we have no reason to suppose that the Chola-Pāndya kings continued very long. In fact their rule could not have lasted more than half a century which was probably occupied by the rule of the few princes known from inscriptions' (E.I., vol. xi, p. 293 n.). Mr. H. Krishna Sastri (A.R.E., 1917) identifies Mummadi Chola with Māravarman Vikrama Chola-Pāṇdya of the epigraphs and Gangaikonda with Jaṭāvarman Chola-Pāṇdya of No. 642 of 1916. See also Trav. Arch. Series, vol. vi, pp. 6-7 where four viceroys are distinguished.