The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.40
The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.40
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c9.40
inscription found at Kaḷugumalai (43 of 1908) records an expedition in the twenty-third year of the king’s rule in which he went against Śaḍayan Karunandan of the Malaināḍu and destroyed Ariviyūrkkōṭṭai which evidently belonged to this mountain chief on the present Travancore frontier.¹ This Karunandan appears to have been a member of an ancient family of Ay chieftains associated with the Podiya mountain and perhaps friendly to the kings of Veṇāḍ in the period of their struggle against the Pāṇḍya expansion.