The Colas c15.107

c15.107

60a. 200 of 1931-32; *ARE.* 1931-2 II 11. A. S. Ramanatha Aiyar (*EI.* xxv pp. 35 ff.) has argued by a process of elimination that Parāntaka I lost his life in war in the south fighting against Vīra Pāṇḍya 'who took the head of the Cōḷa' and that this happened in A.D. 953-54. He supposes that the regnal year in the Vanamaladinne record is due to the fact 'that the recent news of the death of the Cōḷa king had not percolated so far north, at the time that record was incised' (p. 38). But it may with equal propriety be suggested that the record is a valuable testimony to the continued resistance of the people of the locality to Kṛṣṇa's intrusion and to their loyalty to Parāntaka who was still alive and ruling.