Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t3.11

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³ The Singhalese put the invasion of Ceylon by the Coḷas in 1023, and state that it was in 1071 the revolt began. (Tennent's "Ceylon" i., pp. 402-3.) This can hardly be correct, though it is according to Turnour.
1) F. (see above, p. *n.*) calls him Rājarājanarendra; E. Rājarāja-Coḷa; D. Narendra. This king must have restored Tanjore which according to Al-Bīrūnī was in ruins at the beginning of the 11th century (Reinaud, "Fragments", pp. 92, 121; "Mémoire", p. 284). This fact confirms the earlier Cālukya boasts of conquest, and was certainly owing to them.
2) That Kŏppākesari v. is the same as Rājarājendra is proved by the inscriptions at Tanjore and at the Varāhasvāmī temple at Seven Pagodas. (See *Madras Journal*, xiii., pt. 2; p. 36.) He seems to have been a great patron of Brahmans and of Çaivism, but he must also have been liberal to Buddhists, for Buddhamitra (the author of a Tamil grammar) called his work Vīraśoḷīyam after him.
3) He was reigning in 1134 A. D. the date of E. In his time there must have been a great many Buddhists in Tanjore, as Parākrama Bāhu (king of Ceylon 1155-1186) fetched his priest from there according to the Mahavamso:
4) Inscription near Seven Pagodas. (*Madras Journal*, xiii., pt. 1; pp. 50-1.) Kaliṅga was lost in 1228 A. D.