The Colas c18.27

c18.27

Despite his defeat at Muśangi, and the consequent boast of Rājēndra that he captured Raṭṭapāḍi, Jayasimha was successful in retaining his hold on his territory up to the Tungabhadrā, if not beyond. The Mīraj grant dated in A.D. 1024 shows that Jayasimha was then in possession of Eḍedōre 2000 and affirms that he had regained it after driving out the strong Cōḷa, lord of the five Drāviḍas.⁴⁴ As a rule the Cōḷa-Cāḷukya wars in this period were waged on two fronts—the western front in which Mānyakhēṭa and Kalyāṇi were the objectives of the Cōḷas and the Tungabhadrā the natural frontier between the two powers, and the eastern front which centred round Vēngī the possession of which was coveted by both the parties. Of the occurrences in the east during the war we derive little direct information from the Tamil *praśasti* of Rājendra I which omits them and details only the expedition to the Ganges as the next great event of the reign; but to understand this expedition in its proper setting we must consider the affairs of Vēngī.