The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.15

c13.15

Mr. H. Krishna Sastri seems to accept the co-regent theory. He suggests that Māravarman Parākrama Pāndya (of 94, 98 and 131 of 1908), and Tribhuvanacakravartin Vikrama Pāndya Dēva (of 26 of 1909) might have been also among the foes of Kulōttunga (*A.R.E.*, 1909, part ii, paras 29 and 30). But it is well to remember Sewell’s warning—: ‘With some as yet unabridged intervals, hereafter no doubt to be successfully filled in, we are now in possession of the general outlines, and in course of time the whole story will become plain. But it will never become plain if at the present very critical period workers are not particularly cautious in their methods. Deductions put forward or statements confidently made by an author who is recognized as an authority on the subject may, if these are perhaps based Jaṭāvarman Śrīvallabha appears to have been succeeded by Māravarman Tribhuvanacakravartin Parākrama Pāṇḍya Deva; this may be inferred from the fact that a certain Rājendra Cholan Kēraḷan *alias* Niṣadarājan who made a gift of sheep for a lamp in a temple in the twenty-first year of Śrīvallabha, also made a gift of paddy to the same temple in the eleventh year of Parākrama Pāṇḍya.¹ Parākrama Pāṇḍya’s records begin with a historical introduction commencing with *Tirumagaḷ Puṇara* and mention *drammas* as among the coins current in his time. Nothing more is known at present about this king. He must have reigned as a contemporary of Kulōttunga also.