It Is Clear From The Agreement Of Rashiduddin With Marco
Polo That Sundara Pandi's Power Was Shared In Some Way With His Brothers,
But It Seems Certain Also From The Inscription That There Was A Sense In
Which He Alone Was King."
I do not give the whole of Dr. Caldwell's remarks on this subject,
because, the 3rd volume of Elliot not
Being then published, he had not
before him the whole of the information from the Mussulman historians,
which shows so clearly that two princes bearing the name of Sundara
Pandi are mentioned by them, and because I cannot see my way to adopt his
view, great as is the weight due to his opinion on any such question.
Extraordinary darkness hangs over the chronology of the South Indian
kingdoms, as we may judge from the fact that Dr. Caldwell would have thus
placed at the end of the 13th century, on the evidence of Polo and
Rashiduddin, the reign of the last of the genuine Pandya kings, whom other
calculations place earlier even by centuries. Thus, to omit views more
extravagant, Mr. Nelson, the learned official historian of Madura,
supposes it on the whole most probable that Kun Pandya alias Sundara,
reigned in the latter half of the 11th century. "The Sri Tala Book, which
appears to have been written about 60 years ago, and was probably compiled
from brief Tamil chronicles then in existence, states that the Pandya race
became extinct upon the death of Kun Pandya; and the children of
concubines and of younger brothers who (had) lived in former ages, fought
against one another, split up the country into factions, and got
themselves crowned, and ruled one in one place, another in another.
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