The Colas c18.82

c18.82

In several inscriptions of his reign and of the reigns of his successors, Rājēndra is described briefly as the conqueror of Pūrvadēśam, Gangai and Kaḍāram; this must be taken to be a summary statement of his most distant conquests, and on this assumption Pūrvadēśam is best understood to be, not the Vēngī country as was suggested by Venkayya,¹⁸⁴ but Pūrvarāṣṭra, the country to the east of the Maikal range,¹⁸⁵ roughly corresponding to the Southern Kōsala country.