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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(JUNI, 1915.
• Maravarman Vikrama Pândya • Jatavarman Vikrama Pandya • Jatavarman Srivallabha ... • Mârsvarman Sundara Pandya III ... • Jatavarman Vira Pandya III • Jatavarman Sandara Pândy 6 (IV) ...
Maravarman Kulasekhara II...
Jafavarman Parkkrama Pandya • Jatavarman Sundara Pandya V
... 12 Jan.-29 Aug. 1283
circa 1280 ... 6 Ap.-12 Nov. 1291
20 Feb.-6 Mar. 1294 28 Jone-24 July 1296 29 Aug. 1802–5 July 1808
6th-29 Mar. 1914 ... 18 Ap.-10 Aug, 1815 ... 10—25 Ap. 1818
The following is a tentative arrangement of most of the above Pandya ralers, which will make it clear,
(1) that five Pandyas ruled at the same time, a fact established by tradition as well as by the statements of contemporary historians;
(2) that two Mars varmans and two Jatâtarmans were co-regents with a fifth Pandya who might be either a Märavarman or a Jaçavarman;
(3) that as a rule not more than one or two years elapsed between the death of a MAravarman or Jatavarman and the accession of the next Märavarman or Jatavarman. The interval of 4 years betwoon the death of Mâravarman Kulabekhara I and the accession of Kulabekbara II is accounted for by the Muhammadan invasion (circa A.D. 1810-vide Report on Madras Epigraphy for 1908-09, p. 82). Again there is a gap of ten years in col. (6) which one would expect to have been filled up by ~ Jatavarman. For the present I am only able to fill it ap with Jatavarman Vikrama Pandya to whom I have assigned above the conjectural date circa 1280; bat I admit this is not satisfactory;
(4) that, in what I have numbered as the first line of Paņdyas of the 13th century, a Märavar. man was regalarly succeeded by a Jatavarman and vice versa, each successor being presumably either appointed by the reigning sovereign during his life time or called to the throne after his death.
N.B.-The main purpose of this tabular arrangement is to show that, taking almost any year between A. D. 1250 and A. D. 1315, it is possible to prove from inscriptions that five Pâņdyas ruled simultaneously. The qualification almost " would probably be UDNOCOBAry if we knew the Oxact terminal year of each reign.
The terminal year of each reign here assumed is merely the latest year occurring in inscription, (Padukkotta inscriptions have in one or two cases been used for this purpose by anticipation), whereas the actual year of death may bave been a few years later than that bere assumed. Also . more careful investigation of the relationship among the individuals reigning at the same time, as well as of the places whore thoy had their palacos, may lead us to a boater adjustment of the oonourrontlines which, as presented here, make absolutely no pretence whatever to a genealogical arrangement.
(2)
(3) Mr. Sun Pipd. I k. Vira Padys J. Virs Pandya II xckr. Sund' Plod. II Jat. Kaleokhara II (1914-1946) (1282-1987 (19541715)
(18081856) (1237-1959) Jut. Band. Pap. 1 Mr. Kulasek. I JA. Sund. Pend.
I
, Brtvallabhs JA Vilarama Pandya (1351-1980) (1208-1810) (1976-1908) (1957-1998)
circa 1280 Mk, Vlaam. Plod.
JM. Vtra Pindy III Ar. Bund. Pandyal Ja$. Bund. Pandys II (1206
(1870-1803) Sat. Brivallabha kr. Kulatek. 11 (1991-1815)
(1816-1846)
(1)
. Sund. Plody II
(12011
54. en part
54, Band. Pagal
This was prerumably the Sundara Papdys who, according to the Muhammadan historians, murdered his father Wizararman Kukatokhara
