The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.6
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.6
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But towards the close of Parāntaka’s reign, some time before A.D. 949, a disaster overtook the newly established Chola power. The Rāshṭrakūṭa king Krishna III invaded the Chola country in great force and Rājāditya, the eldst son of Parāntaka, lost his life in the battle of Takkōla. Large portions of the Chola territory were occupied by Krishna who advanced as far as Tanjore and seems to have reduced the successors of Parāntaka to an inferior position.³ We have no stone inscriptions in the Pāndya country relating to the Chola monarchs of this period.