The epigraphical records noted in the temple, indicate that the Tenkasi Pandyas exercised  independent authority in this region.  The very fact that Parakrama Pandya could undertake and  complete the construction of this temple town and make it his capital, bears testimony to his high political authority and enormous financial resources.  His meykirti'Bhumisai Vanithai' not only lists his achievements but also affirms his soverignty as an independent ruler, even if it were of a very limited area. He is said to have scored a number of victories over his enemies, including the Chera ruler, which fact is corroborated by an account of the same given in a Sanskrit work, "Pandyakulodayam" of one Mandala Kavi. Parakrama's successors were crowned in the Tenkasi temple and their generous endowments to the temple as recorded on its walls throw light on the successive rulers of the Tenkasi region.  The last record in the name of a Pandya ruler is dated AD 1615 and refers to a yaga performed by Varaguna Srivallabha alias Kulasekharan and to the conservation of an image called Yagnasa Vignesvara.  Almost all the inscriptions of these rulers expect the Tamil verses and three dated in Kollam era, are recorded in a set pattern and style peculiar to the Tenkasi Pandyas.  None of them either refer to a higher authority or bear a non-Pandya insignia.  Most of the rulers assumed high sounding titles and epithets.  Though they sound hollow in the political context of Vijiyanagar and they could assume them and get them inscribed as royal edicts seems as Pandya rulers.