The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c20.29

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the connections are not yet as firmly established as one would wish. We have also evidence of the existence of some kings not mentioned in the copper-plates at all. Thus a Jaṭāvarman Vikrama Pāndya¹, who ruled from A.D. 1401 to 1422 and whose records are found in Kuttālam and in Tirupputtūr (Ramnad), among other places, is not mentioned in the copper-plates at all. Another king Parākrama *alias* Śrīvallabha² came to power about the same time and ruled for at least thirty-three years till A.D. 1434. Somewhat later instances are those of Māravarman Vīra Pāndya³ who ruled from A.D. 1443 to at least A.D. 1497 and whose records are found in the Pudukottah country; and a Māravarman Sundara Pāndya (A.D. 1531-1555) found in Kielhorn's list of Pāndya kings. These instances show that our knowledge of the state of the Pāndyan power under the Vijayanagar empire is still very fragmentary. It is significant that a few records of these later kings are found in Ramnad and Pudukottah, as this is some evidence that, to the last, these kings struggled to hold their own in the Madura country. It is not till about A.D. 1483 that the Bānarāya chieftains are found assuming titles like *Madhurā-purī-mahā-nāyakan*.⁴