The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.6
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.6
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² Mr. L. D. Swamikkannu Pillai, for instance, after wavering between two dates for a Māravarman Vikrama Pāndya’s accession 1269-70 and A.D. 1283 and between two rulers of the same name, finally gave up the A.D. 1283 date altogether; epigraphy furnishes no aid here. (See *A.R.E.*, 1922, part ii, para 31 and *A.R.E.*, 1925, part ii, para 28). The reader may also be referred to the strange manner in which the official epigraphist discusses No. 393 of 1917 at para 49 of part ii of the report for 1918. It should be noticed in particular that even when it is a question of dates centuries apart (in this case eleventh and thirteenth centuries) palæography is inconclusive. Sewell, at p. 191, *I.A.*, vol. xliv, makes a similar remark.