The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.30
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.30
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c14.30
Now what was the nature of Narasimha’s intervention? In effect, it seems to have ended in the re-establishment of the Chola on the throne and the consequent assumption of the title Choḷarājya (maṇḍala) pratiṣṭhācārya by Narasimha. It is not however so easy to judge what the effect of the intervention was on the Pāṇḍya king and his kingdom. The Pāṇḍya conquest of the Chola country is referred to as early as the third year of Sundara Pāṇḍya, while the restoration of the kingdom is not mentioned in any inscription earlier than the seventh year. The interval, A.D. 1219-23, covers, in Hoysala history, the death of Ballāla II and the early years of Narasimha II. An inscription of Narasimha in A.D. 1223 (Cn. 197)¹ gives him the titles ‘displacer of