The Colas c11.21

c11.21

Nalangiḷḷi forms the subject of no fewer than fourteen pieces in the *Puṟanānūṟu*, and Kōvūr-Kiḻār, who contributes half the number implies that the king enjoyed, like Karikāla himself, a sort of vague hegemony among the Tamil states, and sings with intelligible exaggeration:⁴⁰