Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c15.s1.t2.4

c15.s1.t2.4

The Chola country was drained by the river Kāverî and comprised the districts of Trichinopoly and Tanjore. We learn from a South Indian inscription¹ that Hara, *i.e.*, the god Śiva, asked Guṇabhara (Mahendravarman I, Pallava), “How could I, standing in a temple on earth, view the great power of the Cholas or the river Kāverî?” When Pulakeśin II Chalukya strove to conquer the Cholas “the Kāverî had her current obstructed by the causeway formed by his elephants.” The Chola capital was Uraiyūr (*Sanskrit* Uragapura) or Old Trichinopoly.² The principal port was at Kāviripaṭṭinam or Pugār on the northern bank of the Kāverî.³