The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c18.s1.24

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The Kēraḷa ruler, however, was not for long left in the enjoyment of the fruits of his victory. For very soon after, he seems to have been ousted from Kāñchīpura by the advance of Muppiḍi Nāyaka the lord of Vikrama-siṃhapaṭṭaṇa, that is, probably the governor of Nellore, and the general of the Kākatīya king Pratāparudradēva. He is said to have conquered a Pāṇḍya king and levied a tribute of elephants from him. This king might have been Sundara Pāṇḍya as a record in his fourteenth year states that he instituted a service called after Muppiḍi Nāyaka in the temple at Vriddhācalam (South Arcot). Muppiḍi is said to have installed a governor at Kāñchīpura by name Mānavīra. This expedition of the Kākatīya general seems therefore to have brought the northern part of the Pāṇḍya empire for a time under the control, more or less effective, of the Telugu rulers of Orangal.¹