Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 300 BCE – 1650 CE

Pandya dynasty

A state of 300 BCE – 1650 CE — 1,950 years in South Asia. It replaced Chola dynasty. It was replaced by Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagara Empire and Jaffna kingdom and 3 more. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
1,950 years
300 BCE – 1650
Rulers
4
the King of Polonnaruwa
Most ground
221,000 km²
in 1250
Within it
1
recorded row
Map: Pandya dynasty in 1250, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Pandya dynasty in 1250, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 221,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Pandya dynasty in 592, first mapped

592 · first mapped · 77,800 km²

Pandya dynasty in 1250, at its largest

1250 · at its largest · 221,000 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Chola dynasty: 300 BCE – 1279Jaffna kingdom: 1215 – 1624Vijayanagara Empire: 1336 – 1646Delhi Sultanate: 1206 – 1526Pandya dynasty: 300 BCE – 1650

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

The line of King of Polonnaruwa.

Nedunj Cheliyan I · 270 BCE – 270 BCE · no death date to read the end againstKadungon · 560 – 590 · no death date to read the end againstRajadhiraja I · 1018 – 1044 · no death date to read the end againstParakrama Pandyan II · 1212 – 1215 · no death date to read the end against150010001500
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Nedunj Cheliyan I270 BCE – 270 BCEunder a yearending not on record
Kadungon560 – 59030 yearsending not on record
Rajadhiraja I1018 – 104426 yearsending not on record
Parakrama Pandyan II1212 – 12153 yearsending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 270 BCE – 1215. Median reign 14.5 years. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

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77,800 km² in 600, 219,100 km² in 1300; at its largest 221,000 km² in 1250. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

300 BCE – 201 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE200 BCE – 101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE – 1 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE0 – 99: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 – 199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100200 – 299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 – 399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300400 – 499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 – 599: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500600 – 699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700 – 799: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other700800 – 899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900 – 999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other9001000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1500 – 1599: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other15001600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other

700 – 7991 row

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood1,950 years

    stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held221,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 60% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median26 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 77% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Chola dynasty · Linked · 300 BCE – 1279Chola dynastyPandya dynasty · 300 BCE – 1650Pandya dynastyMadurai Nayak dynasty · Linked · 1529 – 1737Madurai Nayak dynasty150010001500
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q844910 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.