The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.20

c13.20

It seems very likely that, from the period of the recovery of Pāṇḍya power which preceded the expedition of Kulōttunga I, there were appointed in important subordinate capacities princes of the blood royal who recorded their own inscriptions after the manner of the ruling kings—a practice which may have been copied from the contemporary Cholas; if that was so, the imitators must have gone much farther along this road than their models. If this suggestion is borne out by future study, the best way of treating Pāṇḍya history of the middle ages will be to treat the kings in Kielhorn’s list as the main line of rulers. But even so, there will remain much work in the way of properly interpreting the hundreds of epigraphs.