The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.39

c13.39

A tempting suggestion offers itself and may be stated here with the reservation that it cannot be taken as proved until further evidence confirms it. A very interesting record (35 of 1913) in the fourth year of a Parākrama Pāndya incidentally refers to the fourth year of Vikrama Chola and to Perumāl Kulōttungadēva, which must be taken to mean Kulōttunga II, the successor of Vikrama Chola. The object of the inscription is to record the renewal of a charter of privileges granted to certain Pallis in the Aduturai temple several years before, when they rescued some images of the Aduturai temple which were being removed to Halēbīd, apparently as a result of a military raid into the Chola country by the Hoysala king Visnuvardhana I who claims to have marched right up to Rāmēsvaram. The privileges were renewed in the fourth year of Parākrama Pāndya, as stated above, and if this Parākrama was the same as the opponent of Kulaśēkhara, then it would mean that Parākrama had been ruling from Madura for some time as a separate ruler independent of Kulaśēkhara when the latter attacked him; or it may be that he started as a subordinate ruler at first and that Kulaśēkhara attacked him when he sought to make himself independent.¹