The Colas c17.37.3

c17.37.3

In the sixteenth year of the reign of Rājarāja, we find mention, in a Tiruvallam inscription,⁹⁹ of a Tiruvaiyan Śaṅkaradēva who claimed descent from the Gaṅga kings of Kōlār and built at Tiruvallam a temple called Tiruvaiya-Īśvara apparently after his father. The high-sounding titles that precede the name of this obscure chieftain constitute a clear warning against hasty inferences from such titles in regard to the political status of the person employing them. Nannamarāyar of the Vaidumba family, the son of Tukkarai who possessed the Ingallūr-nāḍu in Mahārājapāḍi, in the Cuddapah district, gave an endowment at Tiruvallam in North Arcot about a.d. 1005.¹⁰⁰ Like the Vaidumbas, the Bāṇas, who shared the same fate with them at the hands of Parāntaka I, seem to have become officers sharing in the administration of the country under the Cōḷas.