The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.36

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Prof. Kielhorn has succeeded in working out the dates of seventeen Pāṇḍya rājas who ruled a territory more or less extensive during the long period between A. D. 1100 and 1567, but the list of names is believed to be incomplete, and most of the princes were merely local chiefs of slight importance.¹ By far the most powerful of the mediaeval Pāṇḍya Rājas was Jaṭāvarman Sundara I, who reigned from A. D. 1251 to at least 1271, and made himself master of the whole eastern coast from Nellore to Cape Comorin. Some of his coins can be identified.² The partial Muhammadan conquest effected by Malik Kāfūr and other leaders in A. D. 1310 and subsequent years, did not destroy the local dynasties, although it marks a change in political conditions which has been taken as the limit of this history.