The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c8.35

c8.35

It is not easy to follow what Mr. T. A. Gopinatha Rao says in a footnote (n. 1 at p. 49 of *E. I.* xv) to his edition of the Anbil plates of Sundara Chola At any rate, it may be pointed out that the transition from Kalvara (which is a form assumed by Mr. Rao for the word Kalvar) to Kalabhra seems impossible; (the analogy Valavan—Valabha is not equal) and that Suvaran Maran could not have been at once a contemporary of Nandivarman Pallavamalla and the Kalabhra king of the Velvikkudi grant if we follow the chronology of the Pallavas that has been established by modern research. At the same time it must be observed that Dr. S. K. Aiyangar derives Kalabhra from Kalavara through Kanarese Kalabharu and holds that the southern invasion of the Kalabhras was due to the expansion of Satavahana power. (His *Univ. Lectures on the Sangam Age and Pandya Charters*; also R. Gopalan, *The Pallavas of Kanchi*, n. at p. 85.)