The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c15.77

c15.77

that Sundara Pāndya is said to have collected a tribute of jewels and elephants from the Ceylonese before the seventh year of his reign, that is, before A.D. 1258. The Ceylonese chronicles have nothing to tell of these transactions and it is not possible to determine how there came to be two kings in Ceylon and why one of them was selected by Vīra Pāndya for more favourable treatment than the other. As for the places mentioned in connection with this expedition, it has been suggested that Kōnamalai is very probably the same as Tirukkōnamalai in the *Tevāram* and that Trikūṭagiri is the name applied to a three-peaked mountain in the Kandiyan country.¹ Kāvikkalam, the scene of the fight with the Chola, in which elephants appear to have played a decisive part (*vēlappōr*), is not easy to identify. The only known Chola ruler of the time, Rājēndra III, boasts of having taken the crowned heads of two Pāndyas (No. 515 of 1922).