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THE PANDYAS
in the absence of any other evidence, the king may be tentatively identified
with Māravarman Parākrama-Pāṇḍya of accn. A. D. 1334 (S. I. I., Vol. VII,
No. 125).
Maṛavarman Vīra-Pāṇḍya accn. A. D. 1420 : his titles
‘ Kaiyugarāman’ and ‘Tirunelvēlipperumāḷâ.
35. Two inscriptions (Nos. 181 and 183) from Tiruppaṅgili in the Trichinopoly district belong to the 29th year of Kōnērinmaikoṇḍān and record endowments of villages for the expenses of the
service, ‘ Kaliyugarāman-śandi’ instituted
by the king in his name in the temple.
He also calls himself ‘ Tirunelvēli-uḍaiyār’. No. 182 from the same place,
registering a memorandum issued by the king in his 29th year from Vīradhā-vaḷam (see para. 8 above) is also connected with the above two inscriptions.
All these epigraphs are engraved in characters which may be assigned to the
15th century A.D. We know that Māravarman Vīra-Pāṇḍya (Ep. Rep. 1905,
p. 48) of accn. A. D. 1420 bore the surname ‘ Kaliyugarāman’ and Tirunelvēlipperumāḷ’ and hence it is not impossible that these records also belong to
this king. It has however to be noted that his inscriptions have not hitherto
been found so far north as Trichinopoly. A certain Māravarman Vīra-Pāṇḍya
however, with the title ‘ Kaliyugarāman’ is mentioned in two inscriptions from
the South Arcot district (A. R. Nos. 281 and 282 of 1928-29), but the omission
therin of the surname ‘ Tirunelvēli-Uḍaiyār’ would seem to preclude his
identification with the king of the present inscriptions.
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