The Colas c15.8

c15.8

The first stage in the account of the *Mahāvaṁsa* corresponds, doubtless, to the raid on Madura in the first years of Parāntaka's rule which led to his adopting the title Madhurāntaka, the destroyer of Madura. The second stage in the war is thus graphically pictured by the Udayēndiram plates of Pṛthivīpati in a.d. 921-2.⁷