N. of a country in the extreme south of India, and lying to the south-west of Choladeśa. The mountain Malaya and the river Tāmraparṇī fix its position indisputably; cf. B. R. 3. 31. It may be identified with the modern Tinnevelly. The holy island of Rāmeśvara belonged to this king- dom, Kālidāsa calls the capital of Pāṇḍya-deśa the ‘serpent-town’, which is probably the same as Negapattan 160 miles south of Madras;...