The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.39

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the opponent of Rāja Rāja III, who figures in the Tiruvēndipuram inscription and the son as coming to power later in A.D. 1243 (*A.R.E.*, 1906, part ii, para 5). But there is no sufficient reason yet to depart from the position taken up by Hultzsch in editing the Tiruvēndipuram record (*E.I.*, vol. vii), and I am still inclined to assume only one Kāḍava chieftain Avaniyāḷappirandān Kōpperunjingadēva *alias* Avanyavanasambhava Mahārājasimha who was subordinate to the Cholas till A.D. 1243, then assumed independence and afterwards became tributary to the Pāndya kings after the campaign of Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāndya against Sēndamangalam. Alagiya Śiyan Kōpperunjinga must be taken to mean Kōpperunjinga, the son of Alagiya Śiyan (*A.R.E.*, 1906, part ii, para 5). The Kōpperunjinga records are characterized by certain common features which are better accounted for on the hypothesis of Hultzsch than on any other, and there is nothing intrinsically improbable in a chieftain holding power from, say, A.D. 1229 at the earliest to about A.D. 1280 at the latest. The subject cannot be pursued further here.