A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c13.28

c13.28

Pallavamalla sought to restrain the growing power of the Pāṇdya king by organizing a confederacy against him. He entered into an alliance with the rulers of Kongu and Kerala as well as the Adigaimān of Tagaḍūr (Dharmapuri). But the Pāṇdya king was equal to the occasion, won victories in several battles, put the Adigaimān to flight, and captured the king of western Kongu, with many elephants, and sent him into confinement at Madura, annexing the whole of the Kongu country to the Pāṇdya empire. In the course of the war, he also penetrated far into the Pallava country and fixed his camp at Araśūr on the banks of the Pennar in Tondainād.