The Colas c15.25

c15.25

Forming part of the campaign against the Bāṇas, or at any rate closely connected with it, was the war against the Vaidumbas. These were a Telugu family who have left behind a few records in that language and in Kannaḍa. In the ninth century they claim to have had the Rēnāṇḍu 7000 country under them, and their inscriptions tell us that in the great battle of Sorēmati (c. A.D. 850) they took the side of the Bāṇas against the Noḷambas and the Gaṅgas. This alliance with, and possibly subordination to, the Bāṇas continued until the time of Parāntaka's war with them. We have no direct means of identifying the opponent of Parāntaka. Some records²⁷ of Kannaradēva (Kṛṣṇa III) from the South Arcot district mention the Vaidumba Mahārāja Śandayan Tiruvayan and Tiruvayan Śrīkaṇṭha; the Vaidumba chief reduced to submission by Parāntaka about A.D. 915 must have been Śandayan Tiruvayan himself or his immediate predecessor. The Vaidumbas, like the Bāṇas, sought refuge with the Rāṣṭrakūṭas from the onslaught of the Cōḷas. In later times, under Rājarāja I and Rājēndra, when the Cōḷa empire regained its ascendancy, the son and grandson of Tiruvayan accepted subordinate positions under the Cōḷas.