Maravarman Vikkiraman II () was a
Pandyan
The Pandya dynasty (), also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an ancient Tamil dynasty of South India, and among the four great kingdoms of Tamilakam, the other three being the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Cheras. Existing sinc ...
king, who ruled regions of
South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of ...
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 Kingdom was a kingdom originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India, Karnataka, parts of Tamilnadu and South-Western Telangana between the 11th and the 14th centuries Common Era, CE. The c ...
influence over the Pandya kingdom. His
meikeerthi
A meikeerthi () 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 sources for determining Tamil History.
Descri ...
declares that he was like a ''lion to the Hoysala elephant'' ().
[Narasayya, p43-44]
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Pandyan kings
Tamil history
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13th-century Indian monarchs
13th-century Hindus