The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.47

c15.47

Thus, before the seventh year of his reign, Sundara Pāndya extended his sway over Travancore, and the modern districts of Trichinopoly (including Pudukottah), Tanjore and South Arcot. There were other successes achieved about the same time or soon after that are mentioned in the Sanskrit introduction beginning *Samastajagadādhāra* which appears as early as the seventh year of the reign (No. 260 of 1906) and in other records. There is no possibility at present of determining the order in which these expeditions were undertaken by the king.¹ He is said to have subjugated the Magadai country, a name applied in mediæval records to portions of Salem and Arcot districts, and it is quite possible that this was done in the course of the war against the Hoysalas and Kōpperunjinga.² The conquest of the Kongu country must have also resulted from the same campaigns, and there is very good reason to believe that the modern districts of Salem and Coimbatore formed part of the Pāndya empire for some time after Sundara Pāndya’s reign.³ Lastly, Sundara Pāndya