The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c8.23

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the grants. Such are Paṇḍitavatsalan, Vīrapurōgan, Vikramapāragan, Parāntakan, Neḍunjaḍayan and also Śrīvaran. The *biruda*, Kaṇṭakaniṣturan of the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant is echoed by the phrase கண்டக சோதனை தான் செய்து of the Museum plates. It is extremely unlikely that *all* these different *birudas* were common to two different kings. Secondly among the subdonees of the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant is a Mūrti Eyinan who is specially mentioned (l. 136). The *ājṇapti* of the Madras Museum plates is a Dhīrataran Mūrti Eyinan who was a *mahā-sāmanta* of the king. There is reason to think that these two references are to the same person who may have been, as has been suggested on the strength of the Ānamalai records, a brother of Mārangāri who was the *āṇatti* of the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant and the king's *uttara-mantri* when he excavated the Ānamalai cave.¹ Lastly the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant ascribes an important victory against the Pallavas to Parāntaka's father Māran, or Māravarman Rājasimha as he is called in the Sanskrit portion; and the Museum plates ascribe to Jaṭilavarman's father Māravarman the *biruda* Pallavabhanjana; and this surely may be taken to furnish a confirmation of the probability suggested by the two considerations urged above. It is thus clear that though there may be some scope for doubt as to the place of the smaller Śinnamanūr plates, it may be accepted as settled that the Madras Museum plates of Jaṭilavarman belong to the reign of the same king as the Vēḷvikkuḍi grant.