The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.67

c15.67

Two princes are referred to in some records which certainly belong to the time of this Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāṇḍya, but their relation to the king is not quite clear. One of them is Kulaśēkhara, who is called *Annalvi* in records of the ninth and tenth years of our king,² and is perhaps identical with the Kulaśēkhara for whose merit a *mandapa* was erected in Tiruppuṭkuli by a minor chieftain or an official who called himself Pallavādhīśvara.³ It is possible that the reference in all these cases is to Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara II, as the expressions *Kṣitipa* and *Perumāl* are used in the Tiruppuṭkuli epigraph. The other person mentioned in the records of Sundara Pāṇḍya is a Vikrama Pāṇḍya who is referred to as *Nāyaṇār* and in whose name a new village was founded in the thirteenth year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāṇḍya.⁴ It has been suggested that a Māravarman Vikrama Pāṇḍya was ruling about this time with an initial date of about A.D. 1249 and if that was so, he might be the *Nāyaṇār* referred to. But more proof is required than is yet available before this suggestion can be finally accepted.⁵