The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.66
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.66
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¹ *Contra* K. V. S. Aiyar, *Ancient Dekhan*, p. 167. Dr. S. K. Aiyangar, *op. cit.*, p. 53 and *A.R.E.*, 1921, part ii, para 41. Mr. Aiyar refers to two facts in support of his view—(1) that the king is called a second Rāma in plundering the island of Ceylon and (2) stone epigraphs providing for the Kodaṇḍarāman-śandi. The king is called a second Rāma, *not* Kōdaṇḍarāma and the stone epigraphs referred to are Konērinmaikoṇḍān records, none of which necessarily belongs to the present ruler. It will be seen later that the name was taken by Sundara Pāṇḍya who began to rule *c.* A.D. 1302-3.