The Colas c16.s2.17

c16.s2.17

The inscriptions give the names of several queens of Uttama Cōḷa, of whom five are mentioned together in one inscription.⁸³ The chief place was held throughout the reign by Oraṭṭaṇan (Urattāyan) Sorabbaiyār, a Kannaḍa name (?), who is called *agramahādēviyār* and *mūttanambirāṭṭiyār*, in the fifth and the fifteenth years of the reign;⁸⁴ she had also the title of Tribhuvanamahādēviyār, significant of her rank as chief queen. The queens of Uttama Cōḷa are almost all of them found making endowments in a village in the Tanjore district which bore the name of their mother-in-law, Śembiyan-mahādēvi—proof of