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his son Bahhruvahana, the king of Manipura, which place I 
have identified with Madura.^^ 
The legend of the king Vijaya of Lanka is Kkewise 
mysteriously and intimately connected with the Pandavas. 
He is reported to have wedded a daughter of the Pandava 
king of the southern Mathura, and, as he had from her no 
offspring, to have invited his nephew from the Indian conti- 
nent to become his successor. This nephew, Pdnduvamsadeva, 
married, in his turn, the princess Bhadrakahcana, the daughter 
of Pdndu-^dkya and grand-cousin of Buddha, who had 
drifted in a boat with her 32 lady companions to Lanka 
and arrived providentially just in time to marry the king.^^ 
But there exist also other legends which do not mention 
this connection between the Pandavas of the North and the 
Pandyas in the South. Among these is one which ascribes 
the colonisation and civilisation to a northern Vellalan named 
Madura Pdndiyan, who, on his pilgrimage to Eamesvara, 
observed the great fertility of the Dandaka forest and deter- 
mined to settle in it. He returned to his own town, came 
back to the South with his family and dependents, cleared the 
country and erected on the banks of the Vail-ai river his 
capital, which he called after himself Madura. The neigh- 
bouring Maravar assisted him much in the cultivation of 
the country and foundation of his capital. Madura Pdiidiyan 
ruled according to this account 50 j-ears after his anival, 
and died 90 years old. He was succeeded by his son Can- 
drapdndiiian, who reigned 40 years, Malayadvajapdndiyaii 
and Alakapdndiyan are mentioned as the nest kings.^'' 
See my monograpli " On the Weapons of the Ancient Hindus," 
pp. 145-152. 
55 See Lassen's Lid. Alterth., vol. II, pp. 95-111. 
8^ See "Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya." hy Horace 
Hayman Wilson, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of G. S. and I., 
vol. Ill, pp. 199-242, 1836, reprinted in the Madras Journal of Literature 
and Science, vol. VI, pp. 17(5-216, and H. H. Wilsons Supplementary Xofe 
in i\ie 3Lidras Journal, vol. VI, pp. 217-220. Compare also Kev. William 
Taylor's Oriental Mistorical Manuscrij/ts, Madi-as, 1835, iu two volumes ; and 
