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.