The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.2

c9.2

WE have little information about the first two kings after the restoration, Kaḍungōn and his son Māravarman Avaniśūḷāmaṇi, whose reigns may be taken to have occupied the close of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh century A.D. All that we know of them comes from the Tamil portion of the Vēḷvikkudi grant and that is not much. The nearest approach to specific historical statements about Kaḍungōn is in the expressions தரணி மங்கையைப் பிர்பால் உரிமைத் திரவிதன் நீக்கித் தன்பா லுரிமை நன்கன மமைத்த (ll. 43-44) which go to show that Kaḍungōn must have had an active share in putting an end to the Kalabhra interregnum and bringing about the restoration of his own dynasty, as he is said to have abolished by his strength the claim of others to the earth and established his own claim on a firm basis (நன்கனம்). We hear even less about the reign of Kaḍungōn's son, Māravarman Avaniśūḷāmaṇi, who appears from the general expressions employed about him to have continued the work begun by his father and maintained his power at least as he inherited it though he did not perhaps add much to it.