The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c20.28
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c20.28
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campaign as late as A.D. 1377. There seems to be, however, no necessity to assume that Kampana did his work all in one expedition. Rev. Heras says, ‘After his conquests Prince Kumāra fixed his residence at Madura’, and mentions his restoration of the Pāṇḍya monarchs and the coronation of Sōma Sēkhara Pāṇḍya as ‘one of the most transcendental acts of Kumāra Kampana.’ I am unable to follow him in accepting the popular and confused chronicles in the Taylor MSS. as history. The traditional lists of Pāṇḍyan kings have been discussed already, and it has been shown that they furnish no guidance to the scientific historian.