The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c16.19

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¹ A.R.E., 1927, part ii, paras 46-8. At paragraph 48 the epigraphist expresses his opinion that 'it is possible that at Tittāṇḍatānapuram which is only a few miles distant from Toṇḍi, there may have also been a Muhammadan colony which had banded itself into an Anjuvaṇṇam (Anjuman) association'. It is rather strange that this reference to an Anjuvaṇṇam, which agreed to help to build a temple, should not have convinced him that Anjuvaṇṇam had nothing whatever to do with Anjuman. Venkayya's elucidation of these terms which I have followed is found in E.I., vol. iv, pp. 293-4 and n. 2 at p. 296. Note particularly that one of their privileges was: 'Should they themselves commit a crime, they are themselves to have the investigation of it' (p. 294). See also T. A. Gopinatha Rao in Trav. Arch. Series, vol. ii, pp. 73-5.