The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c8.15

c8.15

² Mr. Krishna Sastri gets over the difficulty by saying வழித்தோன்றல் means ‘son’; I am afraid that this gives no help in interpreting the expression quoted which is not வழித்தோன்றலாகி, but வழித்தோன்றி. Nor is Mr. K. G. Sankara’s suggestion that Arikēsari was the son of a daughter of Sēndan easy to accept. If, as is not unlikely, the smaller Sinnamanūr plates are earlier than the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant and belong to the reign of Raṇadhīra, then their evidence must be preferred to that of the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant. But after all, it may be that the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant itself is not in conflict with the Sinnamanūr plate. For some reason the Sanskrit part of the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant begins only with Arikēsari and the Tamil part, for the same reason, may be taken to make a fresh start with this king, Arikēsari, though he was the son of the immediately preceding Sēndan (E.I., vol. xvii, p. 365, n. 5 and K. G. Sankara, I.A., vol. li, p. 213 and Q.J.M.S., vol. x, p. 178). It may be noted in passing that nothing has turned up to justify Mr. Venkayya’s suspicion that the kings of the smaller Sinnamanūr and the Madras Museum plates may not belong to the main line of the Pāṇdyas (A. R. E., 1908, p. 55).