The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.118

c8.118

At Trichinopoly, at the cave temple on the hill, are two inscriptions on pillars. Here Mahēndra is said to have gazed ‘on the power of the Chōḷa’ while the rock is called the ‘diadem of the Chōḷa province’, and the Kāvērī river is named the ‘beloved of the Pallava’. It would seem therefore that Pallava power had by this time spread to the south; that the country near to and east of Trichinopoly belonged to the Chōḷa; that the Kāvērī river had been crossed by the Pallava king; and that he ejected the Chola chief from Trichinopoly. (*V. R. iii. Trichin. 777, 778; 63, 64 of 1888; S.I.I., i, 28.*)