The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c20.9

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years and therefore he may be taken to have ruled up to about A.D. 1380.¹ Another ruler who came to power about the same time as the one last-mentioned was Māravarman Parākrama Pāṇḍya (A.D. 1335-52) whose records² are found in the districts of Ramnad, Tanjore, S. Arcot and Chingleput. A Jaṭāvarman Parākrama Pāṇḍya (acc. A.D. 1357) was in the enjoyment of some power in the district of Ramnad and the Pudukottah state for at least twenty-three years.³ Yet another Parākrama is credited with the renovation of the central shrine and the *maṇḍapas* of the temple at Kuttālam, near Tenkāśi in the Tinnevelly district, about A.D. 1387 in the twentieth year of his reign.⁴ And it seems quite possible that there was a fifth Parākrama Pāṇḍya of whom nothing more can be stated than that his thirty-first regnal year was about Saka 1337 (No. 203 of 1895) pointing to some time about A.D. 1384 as the date of his accession. Lastly, we find evidence of the rule, from A.D. 1395-1396, of a Jaṭāvarman Kulaśēkhara⁵ who claims to have rebuilt the temple at Ilanji (a village near Tenkāśi) and founded a new Brahmin village in his fourteenth and sixteenth regnal years respectively. The inscriptions of the three rulers last mentioned are not found outside the Tinnevelly district.