The Colas c18.22
The Cōḷas c18.22
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c18.22
In the years A.D. 1021 and 1022, Rājēndra resumed the war against the Western Cāḷukya power. Jayasimha, who had succeeded his brother Vikramāditya V about A.D. 1016, was displaying unwonted energy in recovering territory lost to the Cōḷas in previous wars. The Beḷagāmve inscription of 1019 describes him as defeating the Cōḷas and the Cēras,³⁸ and this is borne out by the presence of his inscriptions about this time in Bellary and the N. W. of Mysore.³⁹ Rājēndra's war against Jayasimha is described in his Tamil *praśasti* in the following terms: