The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.165.2

v3.c29.165.2

Therefrom the dynasty extended its territory chiefly at the expense of the waning power of the Eastern Chālukyas. During the long reign of Ganapati, perhaps the greatest among this dynasty, the southern frontier was settled for them at the lower course of the river Krishna by the reduction of the Telugu Choda chiefs of Nellore by Jatāvarman Sundara Pāndya I. His daughter Rudrama or Rudrāmba, who succeeded, was well able to maintain the territory bequeathed to her and hand it over in fullness of time to her grandson Pratāparudra II, who came to the throne about the same time as Vīra Ballāla III. With the advent of Jatāvarman Sundara Pāndya the Chola territory had been reduced to subordination to him. With the death of the Hoysala Sōmēsvara, who had practically reduced the Cholas to a position of complete insignificance and held their territory under his own authority, so that under his son Vīra Rāmanātha what had been the Chola kingdom was generally regarded as the territory of the Hoysala Rāmanātha, the Hoysala hold was gradually slackening while yet Vīra Rāmanātha was alive, chiefly from the pressure of the Pāṇḍyas from the south. When the last great Pāṇḍya, Maravarman Kulaśēkhara, ascended the throne in 1268 he seems to have gradually increased the pressure so much that he is often referred to as being in his capital Jayankonda-Sōlapuram, which is only about six miles from the regular Chola capital Gangaikonda-Sōlapuram.