The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.37

c14.37

Thus the two expeditions of Sundara Pāndya against the Chola country do not appear to have resulted in any permanent occupation or conquest of the Chola country, though there are some records of this king outside the Pāndya country which confirm the historicity of the events recorded in the inscriptions cited above.¹ The direct and effective sway of Māravarman Sundara Pāṇḍya I must be taken to have been more or less confined to the Pāṇḍya country, including in it portions of modern Pudukkottai and Trichinopoly; this at any rate is the conclusion that arises from the provenance of the many inscriptions that can be assigned to him without any possibility of doubt. There are references in the records (546 of 1922, 148 of 1908, etc.) to a throne Maḷavarāyan at Madura; one record (No. 77 of 1916) refers to a throne of the same name in a palace at Pon Amarāvati in Puramalaināḍu; it also refers to a Muḍivaḷangumperumāḷśandi evidently instituted in commemoration of the restitution of the Chola crown and the date of the record is 528 days after the fifth year, i.e., the seventh year of the king. The coins¹ with the legend Śoṇāḍukoṇḍan must also be ascribed to this king. A record from Mēḷakaḍayam (No. 524 of 1916) in the eighteenth year of the king refers to a shrine called Kaliyugarāmēśvara, which indicates that the title Kaliyugarāma, found also in some coin legends, may belong to our king or some predecessor of his. Atiśayapāṇḍyadēva seems to have also been another title of this king.²