The Colas c17.13

c17.13

The Cōḷa general who most distinguished himself in the campaigns in the West was perhaps no other than the crown prince Rājēndra.²² He was afterwards made Mahādaṇḍanāyaka of the Vēṅgī and Gaṅga-maṇḍalas. He had also the title Pañcavanmārāya. This 'tusker of Mummuḍi-Cōḷa,' as he is called, 'seized the Tuḷuva and Koṅkaṇa, held Malēya (Malabar), and pushed aside the Cēra,' as well as the Teluṅga and the Raṭṭiga.²³ As chief military officer in the Gaṅgamaṇḍala, he carried out the royal order conferring on Manija the village of Māḷavvi (Coorg) and the title Kṣatriyaśikhāmaṇi-koṅgāḷva in recognition of his heroism in the battle; perhaps it was fought against the Caṅgāḷvas, a petty local dynasty. In any case, this was the beginning of the line of Koṅgāḷvas who ruled a small kingdom for about a century as the subordinates of the Cōḷas to whom they owed their existence, and then disappeared with the expulsion of the Cōḷas from these regions after the rise of the Hoysaḷas.²⁴