The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.27

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¹ A.R.E., 1909, part ii, para 29. Mr. Krishna Sastri says: ‘As Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara was also occupying the throne at Madura called Munaiyadaraiyan we may perhaps suppose that Māravarman Śrīvallabha was his immediate predecessor.’ I do not see how we can make any such supposition. Frankly, we do not know yet how these thrones were named. For a similar reason I have refrained from accepting the proposal to treat Māravarman Kulaśēkhara of Nos. 465 and 466 of 1909 as a contemporary or successor of Jaṭāvarman Śrīvallabha on the strength of the mention of Kalingarāyan both as the name of a seat and as an officer (see A.R.E., 1910, part ii, para 36). I may notice incidentally that Mr. Sastri does not seem to be quite correct when he considers that historical introductions are a ‘special characteristic feature of the Pāndya records prior to the time of Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāndya I’ (A.R.E., 1909, part ii, para 29).