The Colas c11.19

c11.19

We now pass on to Nalaṅgiḷḷi and his rival Neḍuṅgiḷḷi who, judging from the civil war between them which lasted till the death of Neḍuṅgiḷḷi³⁴ at the Kāriyāṟu, must have belonged to rival branches of the Cōḷa family which ruled with Puhār and Uṟaiyūr for their respective centres. Nalaṅgiḷḷi had a younger brother, Māvaḷattān; and his memory is preserved to us by the poet Tāmappal-kaṇṇanār who, when Māvaḷattān lost his temper in a game of dice and hit him with a die, so rebuked him that later he felt the need for an apology and composed a short poem,³⁵ which is the only relic of this inflammable princeling and his boon-companion, the Brahman poet of Dāmal.³⁶