Part 5 - Peddarasar (A.D. 1203-4)

Peddarasar is said to have been tne lord of the best of cities. Ahischatra, the lord of the Phanamandala, and a devotee of Siva His only record is from Mallam dated in the 26th year of Tribhuvana chakravarti Kulottunga Chola, the taker Madura and the cramed head of Pondya. He granted lands in Inaiyur to Subrahmanya at Tiruvambur in Kilapattiayanadu in Paiyurilamyttam, a subdivision of Jayangondacholamandalam. Though none of Peddaras’s records dated after A.D. 1203-4 to which the 26th year corresponds are found, his rule may have lasted till A.D 1213-14 the earliest date for his son Siddhavasa.

His Political Relations

In a record of his son, Peddarasa is mentioned as Mattimadesam Rajaraja pattai Pettarasan. Matti madesam is Madnyadesa—the middle country which “it appears lay, north of the Vindhyas.” Ahichchatra is Ramnagar where “Sinda the eponymous ancestor of the Sinda dynasty, a descendant of the serpent king was born.” And “the family bore the phanipataka, or Nagadhvaja which seems to be recalled by the statement in our records that the chiefs referred to there in were lords of Phanimandlam.”

The Chola emperor in this period was Kulottunga III. Peddarasa’s allegiance to him is borne out by his records, the specification of the location of his kingdom and the prefix Rajaraja pattai to his name.