The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c17.9

c17.9

It is quite possible that the coin bearing the legend *Bhuvanekavīran* described by Sir Walter Elliot² may belong to this Vikrama Pāndya, although, as has been pointed out before, the name was also borne by Māravarman Kulaśēkhara himself. Vikrama Pāndya had likewise the surname *Rājākkaḷ Nāyan* which occasionally takes the form *Rājākkaḷ Tambirān*.³ There are references in his records to a throne *Munaiyadaraiyan* at Madura and another called *Malaiyadaraiyan* in a palace at Rājēndram, east of Rāśingankuḷam.⁴ The reference to his elder brother (*aṇṇāḷvār*)⁵ Kulaśēkhara is very interesting as furnishing some confirmation of the statements of Wassaf and Marco Polo that the country was being ruled by a number of brothers. The latest regnal year mentioned in Vikrama Pāndya’s records seems to be 13 (No. 539 of 1916) and this means that his rule lasted up to at least A.D. 1295–1296.