The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.42

c9.42

No records of any fight undertaken by the king after the twenty-seventh year have come down to us. But there seems to be no reason to doubt that he reigned for nearly fifty years; though it is not easy to decide such questions beyond the reach of doubt, we may ascribe to this king the inscriptions (863 of 1917 and 605 of 1915) of the forty-second and forty-third years of Māraṇajaḍayan found respectively at Kaḷugumalai and Ērvāḍi. There is reason to believe that this king was among the most powerful of the rulers of the Pāṇḍya dynasty in this age, and it was perhaps under him that the territories under the rule of the Pāṇḍyas attained a great and permanent extension by his successes in the Kongu country and in the Veṇāḍ. The sway of Parāntaka Neḍunjaḍayan extended far beyond Trichinopoly into the Tanjore, Salem and Coimbatore districts, and all that lay south was also under him.