The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c18.s1.8

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The social and economic effects of the advent of the Muhammadans in South India can, however, by no means be exaggerated. The records of the period bear but meagre testimony to the amount of suffering and he made the best use of his position. His inscriptions are found in Śrīrangam, Kānchīpuram and Poonamallee, which last bears the name *Chera-Pāndya-Caturvēdi-mangalam*. In his Kānchīpuram inscription dated in the fourth year of his reign, A.D. 1315-1316, he claims to have defeated Vīra Pāndya, made the Pāndyas and Cholas subject to the Kēralas and at the age of forty-six (i.e. about A.D. 1312-1313) to have been crowned on the banks of the Vēgavatī.¹ ‘The grantha inscription engraved in Poonamallee (No. 34 of 1911) states that the Chera king conquered Sundara Pāndya and granted the village *Chera-Pāndya-Caturvēdi-mangalam* for the enjoyment of the Brahmins. The figure of a fish surmounted by an *ankuśa*, i.e. ‘the elephant’s goad, which is depicted on the right margin of the record (No. 33 of 1911), also indicates the subjection of the Pāndya king by the Chera.’² Thus both Vīra Pāndya and Sundara Pāndya were conquered by Ravivarman Kulaśēkhara and these kings could have been no other than the two unfortunate sons of Māravarman Kulaśēkhara.³