The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c5.s1.20
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c5.s1.20
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date like 'பதிமூன்றாவதின் எதிர் பன்னிரண்டாவது' I. A., vol. xx, p. 288. And Mr. V. Venkayya could only say, 'The second figure in these double dates which are frequently met with in Pāndya inscriptions has been taken to refer to the actual reign of the king and the first either to his appointment as heir-apparent or to some other event prior to his coronation'. A. S. I. 1903-4, p. 272 n). Mr. C. V. Narayana Aiyar (Journ. Ind. His., vol. vii, part 2) assumes that the date opposite to which other dates follow must be constant in the case of the same king. Even this is not so. See, e.g., Nos. 548, 624 and 625 of 1926 which belong to the same king; also Nos. 159-63 of 1894 and No. IV in Trav. Arch. Series i, pp. 99 ff., 1. 50-54.