The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c7.36

c7.36

There is no doubt that many of these pictures are drawn by the poets of the age in obedience to literary convention; but such convention must have been reared on a fairly solid foundation in the facts of contemporary life. In this brief sketch, our attention has been given mainly to a part of this literature that can be definitely referred to the Pāndya country. But the unity of Tamil life in the three kingdoms and the many principalities can only be realized by a more extensive study which cannot be undertaken here.¹