The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.35

c14.35

There is very little evidence to show that, as has sometimes been held,² the Pāndya ruler had the cooperation of Kōpperunjinga in his war against the Chola king. The very full records of the Pāndya ruler make no reference to this; nor does the Tiruvēndipuram inscription, which gives the account of Kōpperunjinga’s rebellion against Rāja Rāja, give any hint of the Pāndya ruler being involved in it. The Hoysalas had an important interest in the Chola ruler and his country, apparently all through Rāja Rāja’s reign, and they were ever ready to rescue him from the numerous misfortunes to which he was subject. But on the occasion of the second conquest of the Chola country by Sundara Pāndya (c. A.D. 1234-5) the Hoysalas seem to have left Rāja Rāja to shift for himself; at any rate we do not know that they actively interfered, although Rāja Rāja even after his apparently crushing defeat, seems still to have continued in some power up to A.D. 1243.