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INTRODUCTION
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the middle of A.D. 1311.5 "It is very unlikely that re-
cords continued to be dated in the regnal years of a
monarch who had died at his son's hands till more than
a year after the event and that too near the capital of
the kingdom". Again while Amir Khusrau refers to
the enmity between the two brothers ("the two Rais
of Ma'bar, Bir Pandya and Sundar Pandya") he does
not mention Sundara's taking asylum in Delhi. But on
the authority of Wassaf, most of the historians who
have written on Malik Kafur's South Indian raids, say
that it was Sundara Pandya's treachery to vent a private
wrath against his rival Vira Pāndya that brought
the Mussalman invader to the distant South. Even
Wassaf does not connect the alleged flight of Sundara
Pandya to Delhi with the raids of Malik Kafur. There-
fore we will not be wrong in taking the raid of Malik
Kafur as being timed at an opportune moment and that
the Muslim invader was interested neither in Sundara
Pandya nor Vira Pāndya but in the fabulous wealth
that belonged to both.
After a halt in the Yadava capital of Dēvagiri dur-
ing which Malik Kafur obtained from Rāmadēva (the
Rayi-Rayan) all the materials needed for the Southern
campaigns, the Malik started on his campaign guided
in his route by one Parașurām Daļavāi a deputy of
Rāmadēva who had been instructed to lead the Muslim
invader safe out of the Yadava territory. Dr. Venkata-
ramanayya thinks that the Yadava ruler who had been
nurturing a deep grievance against the Hoysala Vira
Ballāla III gave all possible assistance to Malik Kafur
5. K. A. Nilakanta Sastri: The Pandyan Kingdom.
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the middle of A.D. 1311.5 "It is very unlikely that re-
cords continued to be dated in the regnal years of a
monarch who had died at his son's hands till more than
a year after the event and that too near the capital of
the kingdom". Again while Amir Khusrau refers to
the enmity between the two brothers ("the two Rais
of Ma'bar, Bir Pandya and Sundar Pandya") he does
not mention Sundara's taking asylum in Delhi. But on
the authority of Wassaf, most of the historians who
have written on Malik Kafur's South Indian raids, say
that it was Sundara Pandya's treachery to vent a private
wrath against his rival Vira Pāndya that brought
the Mussalman invader to the distant South. Even
Wassaf does not connect the alleged flight of Sundara
Pandya to Delhi with the raids of Malik Kafur. There-
fore we will not be wrong in taking the raid of Malik
Kafur as being timed at an opportune moment and that
the Muslim invader was interested neither in Sundara
Pandya nor Vira Pāndya but in the fabulous wealth
that belonged to both.
After a halt in the Yadava capital of Dēvagiri dur-
ing which Malik Kafur obtained from Rāmadēva (the
Rayi-Rayan) all the materials needed for the Southern
campaigns, the Malik started on his campaign guided
in his route by one Parașurām Daļavāi a deputy of
Rāmadēva who had been instructed to lead the Muslim
invader safe out of the Yadava territory. Dr. Venkata-
ramanayya thinks that the Yadava ruler who had been
nurturing a deep grievance against the Hoysala Vira
Ballāla III gave all possible assistance to Malik Kafur
5. K. A. Nilakanta Sastri: The Pandyan Kingdom.