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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Tirumadandaiyum are registered in the Annual Reports on South Indian Epigraphy. Four of these mention Sundara-Pändya as the king's son, and the fifth states that a royal order was issued by Sundara-Pandya without specifying his relationship to the king. They are dated in the 4th, 17th and 19th years, the last being of the 9th year of reign. Knowing the fact that Jaţăvarmad Srivallabha had a son named Sundara-Pandya, there is a possibility of taking Māravarman Sun. dara-Pinlya I, in whose 9th year record, a copy of a grant made in the 3rd year of the reign of Jaţāve-man Srivallabha is registered, to be this prince. If this were the case, Jaţāvarman Srivallabha would have to be assigned to the period A.D. 1193 to 1216, as the highest regnal year furnished for him in inscriptions is 23. This is very unlikely to judge from the contents of some of the inscriptions of Jatăvarman Srivallabha. That he was not far removed from the time of the Choļa king Kulõttunga I can be inferred from the fact that a chief of Adalaiyūr-nädut by name Mummudibolan Virasēkharar figures both in a 4th year inscription of his and in & 49th year record of Kulottunga. That he must have been quite near in point of time to Märavarman Paråkrama. Påndya is made evident from the fact that a certain chief named Sēraman Tolan figures in the epigraphs of both these sovereigns. It is said that at the instance of this chief Parikrama-Pandya made a gift of the village of Sengulam alias Viraiyavitankanallur to the Mülasthanam-udai. yar temple at Kațţikka]ļūr: and he figures as a signatory in a grant of Jaţăvarman Srivallabhe. It is further worthy of note that a grant made by the same chief is mentioned as a past transaction in a record of the 9th year of Jatavarman Kulabēkhara with Pütalamadandai introduction. Thus, Jatavarman Srivallabha appears to have ruled not long after Kulõttunga I, and immodiately following Māravarman Parākrama, either as co-regent with or slightly before Kulasēkhara of the civil war. Further, it is found that the chief Kalingarāyan was one of his principal advisers as well as of Jatavarman Kulasekhara I (Püvinkilatti).
From what we have discussed above it will be clear that there were the following lines of Pandya kinge in the mediaeval period - (i) the line of Māravarman Srivallabha headed by Kulasēkhara-Pāndya. To it belonged
Jațăvarman Kulasēkhara whose inscriptions have the Pütalamadandai introduction, the king that was principally concerned in the civil war. His accession took place in A.D. 1162. On his side were the kings of the two Kongus and the Chöļas. Maravarman Vikrama-Pandya was probably his son and successor. The termination of Kulasekhara's rule was brought about by the Chola Rajadhiraja II in A.D. 1176. on his proving a traitor to the cause of his benefactor, and in the short period from tbis date and A.D. 1183, the date of accession of Māravarman Vikrama-Pandya, Vira
Pāndya, the son of Parikrama-Pandya, ruled. (ii) The line of Parakrama-Pandya which counted himself, his son Vira-Pāndya and
the latter's son whose name is not revealed in Chöļa inscriptions. There are strong grounds for supposing that this unnamed son must be Märavarman Sundara-Pandya I.
1 Madras Epigraphical Collection, No. 498 of 1909, Nos. 266 and 277 of 1927-28, No. 371 of 1929-30 and No. 326 of 1908.
* No. 883 of the same collection for 1905. The gift was made to the temple of Tiruvodagamudaiya-Naya. når at Tiruvēdagam in Påganür.kurram.
• No. 555 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1922.
No. 30 of the same collection for 1909. .No. 32 or the same collection. • No. 130 of the same collection for 1910. 18.1. 1., Vol. V, Nos. 294 and 295.
