South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s2.2.4

c8.s2.2.4

That seems the condition reflected in the next following statement that Vīra Somēśvara was at first hostile to him and then submitted to the Chola, according to the Chola records; whereas apparently the same incident is referred to in Hoysala records that Vīra Somēśvara ‘uprooted’ Rājendra Chola in battle and reinstated him when he begged for protection. Thus then it is clear that during the last three years of the reign of Rājarāja III there was a civil war between Rājarāja III and Rājendra III, in which the Śambuvarāyans on the one side, the Pallava Kopperunjinga on the other within the Chola dominions, the Telugu-Chola Tikka, the father of Manmasiddha and later, Kākatiya Gaṇapati from the north, and Māravarman Sundara I, and later his successor Sundara II, and Vīra Somēśvara from the southern side, played each one his part and succeeded ultimately in crippling the power of the Cholas. Rājendra III's initial date falls in A.D. 1246, and he continued to rule for at least twenty-one years. He gave himself the title *Manukulamēduttaperumāḷ* (the king who raised the fame of the family of Manu, the ancient Chola) apparently in consequence of his efforts to maintain the power and prestige of the imperial Chola family.²