The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.44

c14.44

We find mention of other local chieftains like Malavar Mānikkam and Kandan Udayanjeydān Gāngēyan whose benefactions enriched temples and mathas and also gave a stimulus to learning and art. We hear of a court-poet of the king introducing another poet to the chief Gāngēyan; and a certain ‘Kavirāyar Īśvara Śiva Udaiyār of Uttaradēśam’ was the guru of Malavar Mānikkam and recipient of a ‘Gurudaksina’ in the shape of land.² Several other records of Māravarman Sundara Pāndya contain interesting references to institutional and cultural matters; but these references are best reserved for consideration together with similar records of other Pāndyan kings of the Second Empire.