The Colas c18.s2.30

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40. Hultzsch translates—‘*payaṅgoḍu paḻimiga*’ into ‘out of fear and full of vengeance.’ (*EI.* ix p. 233). *Paḻi* means ‘vengeance’ in some contexts; but here it has surely another meaning: ‘disrepute.’ The idea is that by his flight he lost his reputation as king or warrior. The phrase ‘*navanidikkulap-perumaligaḷum*’ is not clear. Hultzsch understands this independently of the Raṭṭapāḍi campaign, and translates: ‘the principal great mountains (which contained) the nine treasures (of Kubēra).’ This flawless literal rendering is not intelligible, and Hultzsch has not explained what he understands by it. Dr. S. K. Aiyangar is inclined, on the other hand, to see a place name of unknown identity in Navanidhi-kula, like Nāmaṇaikkōṇam, Pañcappaḷḷi and Māśuṇi-dēśa. (Sewell-*Historical Inscriptions* p. 65, n). But unlike *kōṇam*, *paḷḷi* and *dēśa*, an ending in *kula* seems most unlikely for a place name. I think the whole expression is a rhetorical way of stating that much treasure fell into the hands of Rājēndra. ‘*Kulap-peru-malaigaḷ*’ suggest, by recalling the ‘Kulaparvatas’ of legend, the vastness of the treasure; and ‘*navanidhi*,’ though usually employed of the insignia of Kubēra, is introduced here to suggest the variety of the treasures of the Cāḷukya monarch. *cf.* *kula-dhanam-akhilam yaśaśca muktvā bhayam avalambya palāyanam cakāra* (v. 105) of the same context in the Tiruvālangāḍu plates.