The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.20

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From the date of the accession of Āditya’s son and successor, Parāntaka I, in A. D. 907, the historian stands on firm chronological ground, and is embarrassed by the plethora rather than by the lack of epigraphic material. More than forty stone inscriptions of Parāntaka I were copied during the single season of 1906–7, ranging in date from his third to his forty-first year, *i. e.* from A. D. 909–10 to 947–8. This ambitious prince, not content with the overthrow of the Pallava power, pushed on to the extreme south, captured the Pāndya capital, Madura, drove its king into exile, and invaded Ceylon.