The Colas c16.s2.92

c16.s2.92

74. Contra K. V. S. Aiyar—*Ancient Dekhan* p. 243. The difficulties regarding the ages of Uttama Cōḷa and his son pointed out by Aiyar are not so serious as he makes them out. We may suppose that Gaṇḍarāditya died *A.D.* 957 and that then Uttama was 12; he came to the throne when he was, say, 24 in 969, and then had a son aged three; this son would be about 23 in 989 when he is first mentioned in the inscriptions of Rājarāja's reign. The omission of his name from the Leyden and Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates is only to be expected in the conditions of the case.