Maravarman Vikkiraman II ( ta, இரண்டாம் மாறவர்மன் விக்கிரம பாண்டியன்) was a
Pandyan king, who ruled regions of
South India
South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territo ...
between 1250–1251 CE.
Shared rule
Maravarman Vikkiraman II was one of many Pandyan princes who ruled the Pandyan kingdom in the mid-13th Century. The practice of shared rule with one prince asserting primacy was common in the Pandyan Kingdom. The other princes of the Pandyan royal family with whom he shared his rule were
Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan I and
Jatavarman Veera Pandyan I
End of Hoysala Hegemony
His rule marked the end of more than two decades of
Hoysala
The Hoysala Empire was a Kannada people, Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India, Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the Hoysalas was initially loca ...
influence over the Pandya kingdom. His
meikeerthi
A meikeerthi ( ta, மெய் கீர்த்தி) is the first section of Tamil inscriptions of grant issued by ancient Tamil kings of South India. Meikeerthis of various stone and metal inscriptions serve as important archaeological sourc ...
declares that he was like a ''lion to the Hoysala elephant'' ( ta, போசள யானைக்கு சிம்மம் போன்றவன்).
[Narasayya, p43-44]
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Pandyan kings
Tamil history
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13th-century Indian monarchs
13th-century Hindus