The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c20.25

c20.25

As has already been stated, we have little information as to the doings of the Pāṇḍyan rulers who were co-regents with Jaṭāvarman Vīra Pāṇḍya (acc. A.D. 1296) in the last years of his reign and those that came after. A Māravarman Kulaśēkhara, who seems to have also had the title ‘who conquered every country’ which was not more than an empty boast in his case, came to power in A.D. 1314 and would seem to have ruled at least up to A.D 1346.¹ His records are found in all the districts from Tinnevelly to Tanjore and an inscription from Shiyāli (366 of 1918) which refers to the eighteenth regnal year of an elder brother of the king, Sundara Pāṇḍya by name, may perhaps be ascribed to this Kulaśēkhara and in that case, the Sundara Pāṇḍya mentioned would be Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāṇḍya (acc. A.D. 1303). A Jaṭāvarman Parākrama Pāṇḍya began his rule in A.D. 1315 and continued up to about A.D. 1347. His inscriptions are also found in the Tinnevelly, Madura, Ramnad and Tanjore districts and in the Pudukkottah state.² A Māravarman Vīra Pāṇḍya began to rule about A.D. 1334 and a record of his thirty-first year mentioning Kumāra Kampana’s campaigns has been already noticed. He seems to have continued in power for at least forty-seven