The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.15

c14.15

¹ Dr. S. K. Aiyangar makes Sundara's war on the Cholas a war of revenge. (op. cit. p. 26; also 13-14). He holds that the Pāndyas felt the insult of Kulōttunga's durbar at Madura after the battle of Nettūr and wanted to avenge themselves by the durbar at Mudikondasōlapuram. I am not clear about this. But it should be remembered that Kulōttunga supported Parākrama Pāndya and only insulted his enemy Vira who represented the beaten party in the civil war. Again, Kulōttunga cut off Vira's head on the field of battle and caused it to be brought to the durbar in order that he, with his queen by his side, might set his foot on it (we have not accepted this view. See chap. ix); and there is nothing in the 'revenge' of Sundara Pāndya, to remind us of this barbarity. I accept Dr. S. K. Aiyangar's identification of Mudikondasōlapuram with Jayangondasōlapuram (n. 2, p. 44, op. cit.)