The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.22

c13.22

வாதம் குலம்வளா வருமறைநான் கவைவளா வனைத்துலகந் துயர்நீங்கத் தென்மதுரா புரித்தோன்றி.' The record is dated in the ninth year of the king. Parāntaka is said to have defeated the Chera and levied tribute from him. The king of the Kūpakas (a local ruler in South Travancore) offered his daughter in marriage to Parāntaka Pāndya who married her. The king then fought a battle at Viliñam and took the town. Next came the destruction of Kāndalūr-Śālai-kkalam. Apparently the systems of weights and measures were in an unsatisfactory condition and consequently the king is described as having reformed them by abolishing their old names and ordering the carp (கயல்) to be engraved on the new weights and measures that were introduced. Parāntaka also set up ten golden lamps of rare workmanship for the god at Anantapuram and granted a village for their upkeep. He also dedicated to the goddess Kumārī, called here தென்னவர் தம்குலதெய்வம், a whole nādu as an endowment for the distribution of liberal gifts to all who attended the Taippūsam festival, on the day succeeding it. Lastly, he captured Kulam of the Telinga Bhīma and subdued South Kalinga.