The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c12.9

c12.9

¹ The arrangement I follow regarding the Chola kings of this period may be indicated here and some references added:
(1) Parāntaka I—Parakēsari.
(2) Gaṇḍarāditya—Maduraikoṇḍa Rājakēsari (A.R.E., 1912, p. 57). These records may however belong to No. (4) below. (See Ann. Rep. Trav. Arch. Dept., 1919–20, p. 31).
(3) Arinjaya—Parakēsari (Larger Leiden grant, ll. 50–51 and Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates, verse 55).
(4) Parāntaka II Sundara } Rājakēsari
(5) Āditya II Karikāla } Parakēsari } contemporary Vīra Pāṇḍya ‘who took the head of the Chola’.
(6) Madhurāntaka Uttama Chola } Rājakēsari title used by both. Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates, verses 69 and 70 giving the cause of this exception. This assumption overcomes the difficulty pointed out in A.R.E., 1904, p. 10.
(7) Rāja Rāja }