The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c13.49

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a later campaign against Vīra Pāndya and his Singhalese allies in which Kulōttunga III distinguished himself, and in consequence, assumed a surname similar to that of Rājādhirājadēva’ (see S.I.I., vol. iii, part i, No. 36). But may it not be that Rājādhirāja assumed the surname merely as a result of Pallavarāyar’s campaigns against Lankāpuri? Mr. Venkayya himself noticed in the same place No. 1 of 1899 and found subsequently other records of Kulōttunga III which give reasons for Kulōttunga’s surname (A.R.E., 1907, p. 62, para 40 and 1908, p. 67 para 64). Moreover, further research has shown that Kulōttunga III could not have been more than twelve or thirteen years of age in the eleventh year of Rājādhirāja’s reign. (A.R.E., 1924, part ii, para 20).