The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c17.14

c17.14

Before proceeding to consider the other co-regents of Kulaśēkhara and the politics of the closing years of his reign, an account must be given of the social and economic life of the Pāndya country as it struck a foreign observer like Marco Polo, whose statements are in several important respects borne out by the observations of the Muhammadan historian Wassaf to whom we owe much of our knowledge of the political condition of the Pāndyan kingdom at this time.¹