Evidence 2 :
Pandyas had been the sworne enemies of cholas since time immemorial.
We are all aware that bitter battles were faught between the two
throughout the later hola regime. Vijayala / Aditya, Paranthaka,
Gandaradhitya (?) – and ofcourse, Paranthaka II (Sundara chola) -
all had to fight Pandya revolt at some point of their time. Infact
Paranthaka had to fight more than once – to supress Pandya king
veerapandiya.
Once such war was faught in sevur – in which veera pandiyan lost his
life.
If you go a bit further – you’ll find that Rajaraja the great began
his historic conquest first from Pandya country (though Kandalur
salai battle with cheras is considered the first – Rajarja had to
first cross the pandya empire even to reach Kandhalur. Thus, he had
to supress Amarabhujanga, the then pandyan emperor – before
proceeding to chera country).
My simple question is : WHY THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO PANDYA REVOLT
DURING UTTAMA’S TIME – FOR 15 LONG YEARS?
It is evident that Pandyas were alive and well during this period -
because Rajaraja’s first battle with them and subsequent battles with
cheras (in which Pandyas obviously alighned with cheras to overcome
chola power) – were neverthless easy victories. Thus we cannot say
that Pandyas were too weak to plan any revolt in this period.
Evidence 3 :
By right, history should have seen a chola – pandya fight very close
to Aditya chola’s death. The confution that was prevailing in chola
empire was obvious – there were confusions as to who might be the
successor and it was a very good time for pandya’s to capitalize
this. But they did’nt.
One arguement could be that there were no pandya emperors in the
meanwhile. But this is strange – considering the way Pandyas
organised themselves. Because, Pandya’s called themselves as
descendents of Pancha Pandavas and to make people believe this – more
than one ruler was available at any point of time. Ofcourse, they all
had a supreme leader among themselves – who was called the emperor -
but the important thing is there were always some royal guys to
replace a leader. There are many many evidences available to prove
this – it is difficult for me to detail them here.
The overall point implied here is that Pandyas might have had their
own leader who replaced Veerapandya – probably the Amarabhujanga ! -
when Aditya was killed. There was a 3 year gap between Sevur Battle
and Aditya’s death – a sufficiently long gap for the pandyas to
identify their next leader.
To me, these evidences do tell something…some dark and secret
story, long buried in the recesses of time …..
how about you ?
(…Facts will continue to pour in..:-)
