The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c18.s1.18

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Malik Kafur’s inroad into the Madura country, though it did not bring the Pāṇḍya territories into subjection to the Sultanate of Delhi, nevertheless marked the beginning of the end of the Second Empire of the Pāṇḍyas. The effects of the disputed succession and the Muhammadan invasion are seen in the subjection, however temporary, of the Pāṇḍyas to their Kēraḷa contemporary, Ravivarman Kulaśēkhara, followed by the permanent loss of the northern districts of the Tamil land to the Kākatīya ruler of the Telugu country and the growing independence of the feudatories of the Pāṇḍya kingdom. From this time on, the history of the Pāṇḍyas becomes the story of a progressive decline which ends in the restriction of their sway to portions of the Tinnevelly district and, towards the close of the sixteenth century, in their final disappearance from the pages of history.