The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c18.14

c18.14

¹ Marco Polo—Yule and Cordier, vol. ii, p. 333 *n*. Dr. S. K. Aiyangar says: ‘According to Wassaf's account, therefore, Sundara Pāndya found refuge in the court of Alauddin, and that gave the occasion for interference, if such an occasion were necessary for Malik Kafur, who was already on this invasion’ (*op. cit.*, p. 97). Again: ‘There is very little doubt left that he marched in support of Vīra Pāndya's rival Sundara Pāndya whose territory proper was Madura and the country round it’ (pp.156-7). The *Cambridge History of India*, vol. iii, is indecisive. ‘From Dvāravatīpura Malik Naib marched to the kingdom of the Pāndyas in the extreme south of the peninsula to which the attention of Alauddin had been attracted by recent events.’ (p. 116). ‘Malik Kafur then occupied with the Hoysalas, invaded the Tamil kingdom, placed Sundara Pāndya on the throne,’ etc. (p. 487). At p. 669, the capture of Madura and the submission of Madura are entered under 1310 and the death of Māravarman Kulaśekhara under A.D. 1311. Ishwari Prasād, *Mediaeval India*, pp. 203-4, is also inaccurate in details.