Ariya
SuttaA country and people of South India, once ruled by King Vīradeva, and also the name of the Aryan dynasty of the Pāṇḍya.
A country and people in South India. Palandīpa was one of its divisions. It once had a king named Vīradeva who led an expedition against Jayabāhu Iof Sri Lanka (Cv.lxi.36 f).
It was also the name of a dynasty, the Aryan dynasty of the Pāndya (Paṇḍu) in South India. Cv.lxiii.15; see also Cv. trans. i.239, n.1.
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