The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.12
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.12
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¹ See Krishna Sastri criticizing Venkayya in *E.I.*, vol. xvii, pp. 296-7. The view we take of this commentary has already been indicated. It seems to be utterly useless to the historian. The date of its composition must be later than the latest event mentioned in the illustrative stanzas, and the mention of Viliñam will thus take it to the close of the eighth or early ninth century A.D. And it is quite possible that a rhetorical work like this took for its hero a saintly king of legendary fame, and attributed to him all the achievements of the Pāṇḍyan line of kings that the author could think of in his day.