The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.5

c15.5

References to the Hoysalas and their generals in the records of this reign, however, make us doubt if Māravarman Sundara Pāndya II did always feel strong enough to resist the friendly but meddlesome interference in his affairs by his relatives from the Mysore country. In the eleventh year of his reign he names a village in the Tinnevelly district after his Māmaḍi (uncle?) Hoysala Vīra Somēśvara at his suggestion and about the same time a military officer of the Hoysala king Varaḍaṇṇa Daṇḍanāyaka is present in Tinnevelly.¹ Earlier in the reign a dispute between Vaiṣṇavas and Śaivas in Tirumaiyyam, Pudukottah, which was then evidently included in the Pāndyan kingdom, was settled by Appaṇṇa Daṇḍanāyaka, a general of Hoysala Vīra Somēśvara,² who, in some Mysore records, is called Pāndyakula-samrakṣaṇa-dakṣa-dakṣiṇa-bhuja. In another case there is a reference to a Maccunanār (மச்சுனனார்) Vikrama-choladēva, who seems to have had a share in guiding the direction of the king's charities.³ Under this king Madura was the usual residence of the monarch and two thrones Maḷavarāyan and Pallavarāyan both in the palace at Madura are frequently referred to in inscriptions which record the orders of the king.⁴