The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.13

c14.13

The successor of Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara was Māravarman Sundara Pāndya whose accession is counted in his records from A.D. 1216.² It is just possible that this Sundara Pāndya was the brother of his predecessor, Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara, and that both of them were the sons of that Vikrama Pāndya who was restored to the Pāndya throne at the close of the civil wars by Kulōttunga III, and consequently, grandsons of Kulaśēkhara in whose time the civil war began. This sugwere called to power about the same time; and they had no old memories, either of them, that need have hampered their ambitions. And it was the law of life in those days among Indian kings that he who could not be hammer had to be anvil.¹ It would seem that Sundara Pāndya invaded the Chola country very early in his reign, though the restoration of the country is not mentioned till the seventh year.²