The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.17
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.17
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c9.17
The son and successor of Kōccayan Ranadhira was Māravarman Rājasimha I who has been strangely miscalled Tēr-Māran by the epigraphists. The Śinnamanūr plates (larger) only mention him and all that we know of him is derived from the Vēlvikkudi grant. He seems to have been a worthy successor of his father and won important successes against the Pallavas and in the Kongu country. The Madras Museum plates call him Pallavabhanjana and the Sanskrit portion of the Vēlvikkudi grant says that he defeated Pallavamalla who fled from the field