Hi all the cholas were paranoid about the pandyas. it was also true in the reverse. I remember swetha telling us all the sholavanthan place name is actually solavendran or something. two races with mutual distrust lasting a millenium . destroying whatever the others built whenever they got a upper hand. what a collosal waste for our tamil culture.
but kalki with his novelist's licence makes mathurai's anthagan actually madurai's kaavalan. ( the switch between mathuranthagan and amara bhujangan in ps.