The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.41
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.41
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c14.41
being mixed up with the name of Kulōttunga III and his achievements. The epigraphist says that No. 9 of 1926 records that the Chola kingdom was restored to Kulōttunga III, and after a careful consideration of the points made in his discussion, I cannot help thinking that there is some mistake here either in the inscription or in its rendering. These two records are of the fifteenth and sixteenth years, and both come from the Ramnad district. May it be that there was something in this part of Sundara's reign that led him to look upon himself as the successor of Kulōttunga III or to ignore his successor Rāja Rāja by adopting the device of a double historical introduction?