Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s13.14

c8.s13.14

The conquests of Rājarāja’s reign, as detailed in various inscriptions, are thus described in Cp 128, of his 23rd year. He destroyed the ships at the Kāndalūr Śālai (on the west coast), and with his victorious army conquered Vengai-nāḍ (the Eastern Chālukya territory on the east coast, between the Krishnā and Gōdāvari rivers), Gangapāḍi (the Ganga territory in the south and east of Mysore), Nuḷambapāḍi (the Noḷamba Pallava territory in the north of Mysore), Taḍigaivali (the west of Bangalore District), Kūḍa-malaināḍ (the Coorg hill country), Kollam (Quilon), Kaḷingam (the Kaḷinga Ganga territory on the east coast, up to Orissa), Īlā-maṇḍalam (Ceylon), the Iraṭṭapāḍi Seven-and-a-half Lakh country (the Raṭṭa or Rāshṭrakūṭa territory in the Dekhan), twelve thousand ancient islands of the sea (perhaps the Laccadives and Maldives), and deprived the Śēliyar (or Pāṇḍyas) of their glory at the very time when it was at the highest. In Mysore both he and his son specially patronised the temple of Piḍāriyār in Kolār, now known as the Kolāramma, and repeatedly endowed it, while Rājēndra-Chōla had the brick parts rebuilt in stone (Kl 109).