The Colas c18.35

c18.35

The facts that Śakkarakkōṭṭam was the first place taken by Rājēndra's army in the course of this campaign and that the king met his victorious general on the banks of the Gōdāvari, on his way back at the end of the campaign imply that the Vēṅgī kingdom had come back to the same relation of close subordinate alliance with the Cōḷa empire which it had held in Rājarāja's time.⁶⁵