The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.45

c15.45

An alternative reconstruction of the relations between Sundara Pāndya and Kōpperunjinga may be suggested. The campaign referred to in No. 73 of 1918 (Vriddhācalam) may be treated as an incident in the generally hostile relations between the Hoysalas and the rather ubiquitous Kōpperunjinga with which Sundara Pāndya had nothing to do. Then Sundara’s attack on Sēndamangalam will not need any special explanation (that is not forthcoming) as it will be part of his policy of imperial expansion (digvijaya). And the claim in the Drākṣārāma record may be based on Kōpperunjinga’s subordinate co-operation with Sundara Pāndya in his later campaigns during which, as a feudatory, he would have been bound to help Sundara Pāndya.