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¹ Kielhorn and Sewell fix the accession between June 20 and July 4, A.D. 1253 (I.A., vol. xliv, p. 196). Mr. L. D. Swamikkannu Pillai thought that Kielhorn’s Vīra Pāndya was a Māravarman and that Jaṭāvarman Vīra Pāndya was another king who began his rule in A.D. 1254 (I.A., vol. xlii). According to Sewell the only inscription which seems to support this view is No. 395 of 1909 and in it Māravarman is a mistake for Jaṭāvarman, as the achievements recorded in the epigraph are the same as those of Jaṭāvarman (I.A., vol. xliv, p. 194 and n. 16). The final position of the author of the *Indian Ephemeris* on this question is far from clear. He seems to postulate three Jaṭāvarman Vīra Pāndyas with accession dates in A.D. 1253, 1254 and 1280, and says also: ‘but this inference is not yet established by indubitable proof’ (vol. i, part ii, pp. 95-7). Elsewhere he refers 395 of 1909 to a Māravarman Vīra Pāndya of a later century (Pudukottah inscription No. 454.)