[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929) › c2 # The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c2: Contents The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c2 - **Language:** English ### Contents ### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c2.1) | CHAP. | | PAGE | | | PREFACE | iii | | I. | INTRODUCTORY. SOURCES ... ... ... | 1-12 | | II. | EARLY REFERENCES. THE AGE OF THE ŚANGAM | 13-24 | | III. | THE PĀNDYAN KINGDOM IN THE ŚANGAM AGE... | 25-36 | | IV. | THE TRANSITION TO THE FIRST EMPIRE. THE KALABHRAS . . . . . | 37-49 | | V. | THE FIRST EMPIRE . . . . . | 50-67 | | VI. | THE FIRST EMPIRE.—(Continued) ... ... | 68-82 | | VII. | THE FIRST EMPIRE.—(Concluded) ... ... | 83-98 | | VIII. | THE CHOLA CONQUEST ... ... ... | 99-117 | | IX. | THE END OF CHOLA ASCENDANCY: CIVIL WAR AND RECOVERY ... ... ... | 118-137 | | X. | THE PĀNDYAS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE (1190-1238) . . . . . | 138-156 | | XI. | MĀRAVARMAN SUNDARA (acc. A.D. 1238)—JATĀ- VARMAN SUNDARA (acc. A.D. 1251) ... ... | 157-173 | | XII. | JATĀVARMAN VĪRA PĀNDYA (acc. A.D. 1253)— MĀRAVARMAN KULAŚEKHARA (acc. A.D. 1268)... | 174-187 | | XIII. | JATĀVARMAN SUNDARA PĀNDYA (acc. 1276)— MĀRAVARMAN VIKRAMA PĀNDYA (acc. 1283)— SOCIAL LIFE AT THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—MARCO POLO ... ... ... | 188-200 | | XIV. | THE LAST YEARS OF MĀRAVARMAN KULA- ŚEKHARA (1268)—JATĀVARMAN VĪRA PĀNDYA (acc. 1296-7)—JATĀVARMAN SUNDARA PĀNDYA (acc. 1303)—THE MUHAMMADAN INVASION ... | 201-214 | | XV. | ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE PĀNDYAS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE ... ... | 215-239 | | XVI. | THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY AND LATER—DE- CLINE AND END . . . . . | 240-252 | | | ADDITIONAL NOTES . . . . . | 253-257 | | | CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY ... ... ... | 258-260 | | | BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . | 261-263 | | | INDEX . . . . . | 265-277 | --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1929.c2) · Pramāṇa