The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.19
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.19
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c14.19
It is not easy to interpret these new particulars and relate them to the facts recorded in the earlier inscription so as to make a connected story. Apparently, between the seventh year of Sundara and the twentieth, i.e., between, say, A.D. 1222-3 and A.D. 1235-6, he found occasion to interfere in the affairs of the Kongu country and lead a second expedition against the Chola king. There seems to be no means of verifying or controlling the vague references to the rulers of North and South Kongu and their relations to Sundara Pāndya. It is more important to clear up, as far as possible, the relations between Sundara Pāndya and his Chola contemporary Rājarāja III; and in doing so, account must be taken of indications given by contemporary records other than those of Sundara Pāndya himself.