1847.] 



Addendum. 



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Vansa Sechara Pandiya^ and Vicrama-chola. By a very bold fic- 

 tion the latter is said to have had as allies the Mahoniedans, the Orissa, 

 and Vijayanagara rulers, with their troops. Such a trifle must not 

 be minded. But still Vicrama-chola was defeated. In the supple- 

 mentary M. S. of my first volume, Paracrama-chola is said to have 

 driven out the Pandiyan, by the aid of a northern ruler : the son of 

 Paracraina being ludottunga. Lower down Sundara Pandiya is 

 said to have ruled the Chola, Chera^ and Pandiya, kingdoms. His 

 son released a Chola king from confinement, and the latter gave him 

 his daughter to wife. At a later period a Chola king, in defect of 

 male posterity, gave his daughter* to the Pandiyan in marriage; and 

 of two sons born in consequence, the eldest inherited the Pandiya^ 

 and the youngest the Chola, kingdom. The eldest conquered the 

 Malayala country with other places, and derived tribute from them. 

 A grandson of that Pandiyan, named Makuda-verddhana, engag- 

 ed in war with the Chola king — his relation we presume — and was 

 killed in consequence. But his grandson conquered the Cholan. 

 His son was Adhi-vira Pandiya of literary repute ; who maintained a 

 close friendship with the Cholan ; and some short time after in S. S. 

 1246, A. D. 1323 {recto 1313,) the Mahomedans became the com- 

 mon enemy of both. 



Now though any thing like implicit credence cannot be given, nor 

 any certainty, as to time and order, found, we may yet gather up some 

 vestiges. It is something to fix Adhi-viranan towards the close of 

 the 13th century. The feeble succession after the Mahomedan ir- 

 ruption down to Chandra Sechara, when the country passed into 

 the hands of a viceroy from Vijanagara, is not of much consequence. 

 In the summary which I have given, we see amicable relations in- 

 terrupted by treachery, in the delicate point of intermarriage ; we 

 see war with various results. The falling into a tank is all the 

 Sthala-puranam admits. The following aflTair was more serious : 

 that may have been a subversion of the kingdom. In the supple- 

 mentary M. S. (though of supposed defective authority) we have a 

 more candid admission of a Chola conquest : Paracrama-chola is 

 stated to have driven out the Pandiyan. Now Vicrama-chola of the 

 Tiruvilaiyadel, and Paracrama-chola of the other Manuscript, are, as 

 to derivative meaning very much the same. It seems to follow that 

 Vicraina-chola conquered Vansa secliara Pandiyan, and Kulot- 

 tunga, son of the latter, may only have had the honour of beheading 

 the captive prince. Later down there is great prosperity in the 



