The Colas c17.25

c17.25

Dānārṇava sought to extend his kingdom to the south and came into conflict with the Cōḷas who were recovering their northern possessions which had been overrun by Kṛṣṇa III. His son Śaktivarman is said to have won his spurs as a boy in a Tamil battle (*dramilāhava*);⁶³ no further details are forthcoming. Meanwhile, Amma’s brother-in-law, Bhīma the son of Jaṭā-Cōḍa and ruler of Peḍekallu (Kurnool district), was on the move to avenge Amma II’s death. His activities could not be clearly made out as the inscription which records them is sadly mutilated.⁶⁴ As a boy Bhīma must have been a feudatory of Kṛṣṇa III and possibly had even to take part in his campaigns in Vēṅgī. But after Kṛṣṇa’s death he asserted himself and resented the success of Dānārṇava against Amma followed by his conquest and annexation of Pottapi to Vēṅgī. The details are not clear, but in the war that followed Bhīma killed Dānārṇava, drove his children into exile, and occupied the whole of Vēṅgī.