The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.43

c13.43

There need be little doubt that this account is very one-sided. The Ceylon generals are said to have given presents to several chiefs in the Pāndya country and these 'look like bribes offered to win them over from their allegiance to Kulaśēkhara'. Thus the success against Kulaśēkhara was not always won on the field of battle. And after the Chola intervention, it would seem that the Ceylon troops actually lost ground and sustained defeats and it may be suspected that the evacuation of the Pāndya country by Lankāpura was not an entirely voluntary retirement after the successful completion of the task laid on him by his master.