The Colas c13.50

c13.50

32. The references are easily got in any edition of the *Periya Purānam*. See also *ASI*. 1905-6 pp. 176-7. I cannot discover why Venkayya should have included Iḍaṅgaḻi, a vēḷ chieftain of Kōnāḍu (Pudukkottah) in his account of the Cōḷas of this period. It must be noted, however, that Iḍaṅgaḷi is said to have been the ancestor of Āditya who covered the Cidambaram temple with gold from Kongu. Even if this is a reference to Āditya I who conquered Kongu and annexed Toṇḍai-nāḍ to the Cōḷa kingdom, Iḍaṅgaḷi might have been connected with the Cōḷas only by giving his daughter in marriage to a Cōḷa prince. At any rate, we have no evidence that the Cōḷas were descended from the Vēḷs in the male line.