The Colas c15.65

c15.65

20. We have only one inscription (129 of 1907, Pd. 14), its beginning lost, giving the genealogy of these chieftains for eight generations or so. It is probable that there were collateral branches of which we have as yet no information and if, failing to allow for this possibility, we seek to accommodate all the inscriptions in the genealogy of this single record, we come across a number of difficulties not easily settled. It should also be borne in mind that a title like Tennavan Iḷangōvēḷār may have been borne by several persons, and no identification can be confidently based on the recurrence of such titles in different inscriptions. At any rate, if Pūdi Vikramakēsari was, as there are strong reasons to believe, the contemporary of Āditya II who 'took the head of Vīrapāṇḍiyan,' it is difficult to believe that he was also the Tennavan Iḷangōvēḷar whose daughter Ādicca Piḍāri had become the wife of Arikulakēsari as early as the third year (A.D. 910) of Parāntaka I. These chiefs were Kaḷḷar (140 of 1928 Parāntaka I, year 17), and had dynastic connections with the Muttaraiyar (337 of 1904, Pd. 45). Iḍaṅgaḷi-Nāyanār was believed to be of their family (*Periya Purāṇam*), *contra* Nambi Āṇḍār Nambi.