The Colas c23.10

c23.10

The Pallavarāyanpēṭṭai (Tanjore Dt.) inscription¹¹ of the eighth year is more explicit in its details. Like the *Mahāvaṁsa*, it begins by stating that Kulaśēkhara Pāṇḍya was ousted from Madura by the advent of the Ceylon army, that thereupon he entered the Cōḷa country, and appealed to the Cōḻa monarch for help in regaining the Pāṇḍyan throne; the Cōḻa ruler then ordered that Kulaśēkhara was to be restored to his throne, and that Laṅkāpuri-daṇḍanāyaka and others were to be killed and their heads nailed to the gates of the city of Madura, the Pāṇḍya capital. Pallavarāyar alias Tirucciṟṟambalamuḍaiyan Perumāṇambi, who was entrusted with these tasks, entertained Kulaśēkhara suitably during his stay in the Cōḻa country, and having with his army, resources and zeal, brought about the reconquest of the Pāṇḍyan kingdom, he carried out his master’s orders to the letter by nailing the heads of Laṅkāpuri-daṇḍanāyaka and others to the gates of Madura. Kulaśēkhara thereupon re-entered Madura, and thus was averted the conversion of the Pāṇḍyan country into a province of Ceylon (*pāṇḍai-nāḍu Īḻa-nāḍāgādapaḍi pariharittu*).