South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s2.2.2

c8.s2.2.2

He claims in a record of his seventh year at Śrīrangam to be ‘the very Rama (in destroying) the northern Lanka which was renowned to be the abode of Vīra Rākshasas (great-heroes), the elevator of the race of Manu, the terror of his enemies in the battlefield, the chastiser of those who despised the Chola family, the cunning hero who killed Rājarāja after making him wear the double crown for three years, the subduer of the Pāṇḍyas and the Chēras, the plunderer of the Pāṇḍya country, (the hero) whose sword was clever in cutting off the crowned head of the Pāṇḍya king, he who placed his feet on the jewelled crown of the Pāṇḍya, who was death itself to the Karnāṭa king, who drowned the figure of the Kali Age in the ocean, and on whose leg Vīra Somēśvara, ‘ the wrestler of hill forts (the capturer of hill forts is better for giridurga-malla) placed (with his own hands) the anklet of heroes.’ He also lays claim in another record where he styles himself Mahārājādhirāja Tirubhuvana Chakravartin Rājēndra Choladēva, ‘ who took the crowned heads of two Pāṇḍya kings, and was entitled Konērimaikonḍān, to have made a gift to the temple of Tiruchirrambalam Uḍāiyar in the village of Nenpākam (modern Lepaka) in Pottappi Nāḍu, a sub-division of Rājēndraśoḷa-Maṇḍalam.¹ The recital of his deeds contained in the above extracts makes his position clear. He was a distinguished member of the Chola family (race of Manu).