The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.58

c15.58

(வீக்கியவன் கழற்கண்ட கோபாலனை விண்ணுலகிற் போக்கி) and it is quite possible that Vira in the Sanskrit expression is not an integral part of the name. At any rate Viragandagōpāla of Kānchipuram (the son of Vijayagandagōpāla) who came to power about A.D. 1290 could not have been Sundara Pāndya’s opponent. And it seems likely that by disposing of his enemy Gandagōpāla, the Pāndya became master both of Kānchipuram and of Nellore and if this assumption is confirmed by further evidence, it is quite possible that Sundara Pāndya’s enemy was the most famous of the Gandagōpālas, the first of the four mentioned in A.R.E., 1920, part ii, para 53. See Butterworth and Venugopaul Chetty, Nellore Inscriptions, (vol. iii, pp. 1432-3) on Gandagōpāla alias Allun Tirukālattidēva who was ruling in 1254-5 at Kānchi and Nellore.