The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c9.44

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¹ See Venkayya in *E.I.*, vol. ix, p. 89 and M. Srinivasa Aiyangār, *Tamil Studies*, pp. 401 ff and contrast, Pandit V. Swaminatha Aiyar in his *Introduction to the Tiruvālavāyudaiyār Tiruvilaiyāḍal*, first edition, pp. 66-7, who supports an early date by a number of weighty literary references; also Messrs. K. G. Sesha Aiyar and Ponnambalam Pillai in the *Tamilian Antiquary*. The arguments of Mr. Sesha Aiyar seem to be complete as a refutation of the epigraphists' position, and Mr. Pillai approaches the question of the date of the saint from a different standpoint, that of the Christian Church in Malabar.