The Colas (The Cōḷas)
Early Cōḷas of Sangam literature, Vijayālaya line, Rājarāja and Rājendra, Cāḷukya-Cōḷas; administration, village assemblies, revenue, society, religion, art; from thousands of inscriptions.
- Language
- English
- Author
- K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
- Extent
- 4,415 passages, 296,442 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 2nd ed., University of Madras 1955; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (K. A. Nilakanta Sastri †1975); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 4 parts
- c2 The Cōḷas — 7 parts
- c3 Preface to the Second Edition — 7 parts
- c4 Preface to the First Edition — 7 parts
- c5 Contents — 1 part
- c6 List of Illustrations — 41 parts
- c7 List of Maps and Plans — 2 parts
- c8 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c9 Chapter I. Sources — 51 parts
- c10 Chapter II. Early Notices — 53 parts
- c11 Chapter III. Cōḷas in Early Tamil Literature — 202 parts
- c12 Chapter IV. Government and Social Life in the Śaṅgam Age — 219 parts
- c13 Chapter V. From the Śaṅgam Age to Vijayālaya — 50 parts
- c14 Chapter VI. The Rise of Vijayālaya. Āditya I (c. A.D. 850-907) — 44 parts
- c15 Chapter VII. Parāntaka I (A.D. 907-955) — 114 parts
- c16 Chapter VIII. From the Death of Parāntaka I (A.D. 955) to the Accession of Rājarāja I (A.D. 985) — 2 parts
- c17 Chapter IX — 143 parts
- c18 Chapter X. Rājēndra—(A.D. 1012-1044) — 84 parts
- c19 Chapter XI. The Successors of Rājēndra (A.D. 1044-70) — 193 parts
- c20 Chapter XII. The Accession of Kulōttunga I (A.D. 1070) — 29 parts
- c21 Chapter XIII. Kulōttunga I A.D. 1070-1120 — 257 parts
- c22 Chapter XIV. The Successors of Kulōttunga I A.D. 1120-63 — 29 parts
- c23 Chapter XV. Rājādhirāja II and Kulōttunga III — 190 parts
- c24 Chapter XVI. Rājarāja III and Rājēndra III, the End 1216-1279 — 132 parts
- c25 Chapter XVII. The Government of the Cōḷa Empire — 134 parts
- c26 Chapter XVIII. Local Government — 173 parts
- c27 Chapter XIX. Taxation: Finance — 128 parts
- c28 Chapter XX. Population: Social Divisions: Standard of Life — 124 parts
- c29 Chapter XXI. Agriculture and Land Tenures — 143 parts
- c30 Chapter XXII. Industry and Trade — 110 parts
- c31 Chapter XXIII. Coins, Weights and Measures — 30 parts
- c32 Chapter XXIV. Education and Learning — 16 parts
- c33 Chapter XXV. Religion — 138 parts
- c34 Chapter XXVI. Literature under the Cōḷas — 96 parts
- c35 Chapter XXVII. Cōḷa Art — 62 parts
- c36 Description of Figures in the Plates — 120 parts
- c37 Acknowledgments — 6 parts
- c38 Index — 718 parts