The Colas c17.2
The Cōḷas c17.2
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c17.2
Rājakēsari Arumoḷivarman, as he was known in the early years of his reign, came to the throne, after a long apprenticeship as *yuvarāja*, on some day in the month following 25 June, A.D. 985.¹ He was the son of Parāntaka II Sundara Cōḷa by Vānavan-mahādēvi, and the joyous occasion of his birth is described in particular detail in the Tiruvālangāḍu plates.² The star of his nativity was Śatabhiṣak, as we learn from the inscriptions recording endowments for offerings in temples on his birth-days.