South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c14.s1.40.4

c14.s1.40.4

In execution of this, his promise, the ruler of all the rulers of the earth, issued a royal rescript with the royal sign-manual of the fishes, conferring, at the same time, the title Śoḷapati that he had lost before and the old city upon him again and dismissed him with pleasure. Among the kings who oppressed with the obstruction caused by their own kinsfolk, supplicated him as the god who alone could remove the afflictions to which the monarchs of this earth were liable, was the king of North Kongu who humbly petitioned for a hearing of all the harm that his own relatives had done him. Giving him a patient hearing, he sent him back to his quarters in the evening, presenting him with a garland which he had on, the sweet smell of which was the attraction to swarms of bees. Sometime after this, one day there came to him at the head of a vast army, whose great drums sounded like the ocean itself, the king of South (ten) Kongu. He prostrated in front of the throne saying ‘all those near and dear to me are quite well (by your royal favour)’. The great king thought it fitting to present him some of the brilliant jewels that he himself had put on, and appointed him suitable apartments as a mark of great friendship. Like the three-eyed Śiva on the back of an elephant receiving the worship of Viṣṇu (Tirumāl) and the four-faced Brahma (Nānmukan), he made a state entry (pavani) with the two kings of Kongu paying him homage.