Rajasimha III had not handed over the Pandyan kingdom to the Cholas. Parantaka’s arrangements were to persuade the legitimate Pandya to govern Madurai as a subordinate of the Chola.
The Chola did not treat him as his viceroy nor did Virapandya (the son Rajasimha III) who was now in some sort of power in Madurai consider himself under any obligation to accept Chola suzerainty.
Evidently the Chola-Pandyan relations of these times were greatly confused. We hear of the Government of one Virapandya even after the Pandyan country had been conquered by the Cholas. He ruled almost like an independent prince and seems to have defeated some Chola army somewhere and assumed the title Cherantalaikonda Kovirapandyan.
But it seems that Virapandya was defeated by Sundara Chola and that the latter’s son Adirya II Karikalan defeated and killed this Virapandya and assumed the title Virapandyantalaikanda. Virapandya seems to have died in AD 966. With him the history of independent Pandyan rule came to an end for the time being. Thereafter we get mention only of insignificant rulers who were no more than cheiftains. The Pandyan country then came under the direct rule of the Chola empire.