The Colas c15.79

c15.79

34. A. S. Ramanatha Aiyar has argued (*EI.* xxvi pp. 230-5) that Govinda IV when he was deposed from the Rāṣṭrakūṭa throne found refuge with his father-in-law Parāntaka I, that Parāntaka made a futile attempt to restore Govinda IV—an attempt which ended in the defeat and death of Govinda, and that Kṛṣṇa III's invasion of the Cōḷa was a reprisal against Parāntaka's attempt to support his father Amoghavarṣa's enemy Govinda. That Viramādevi, a daughter of Parāntaka, was a queen of Govinda IV is rendered probable by 245 and 246 of 1921. But this is too slight a basis for the speculative reconstruction offered, and Kṛṣṇa's invasion is explained quite easily on other grounds.