[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Colas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas) › c19.116 # The Colas c19.116 The Cōḷas c19.116 - **Language:** English ### [c19.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.116) 86. 193 of 1925 (Yr. 6 of Rājēndra II); possibly also 5 of 1899 of Rājarāja II (Yr. 6). This latter inscription, which is nearly one century later in its date, seems to mix up the achievements of Rājādhirājā I and Rājēndra II. It speaks of 'Perumāḷ Vijayarājēndra-dēva who was pleased to conquer-Kalyāṇapuram and Kollāpuram and to fall asleep (\*i.e.\*, to die) on an elephant' (\*SII\*. iii p. 191). Hultzsch remarks: 'This statment must refer to Parakēsarivarman \*alias\* Rājēndradēva, who is known to have set up a pillar of victory at Kollāpuram'—a view expressed with more caution in \*ARE\*. 1899 I 53 by Venkayya. 472 of 1920 from Śaḷukki (NA.) of the fourth year of Rājakēsari Rājēndra (Kulōttunga I) gives the same description much earlier than the record noticed by Hultzsch; the title Vijayarājēndra is not, however, given here. Rājēndradēva nowhere claims to have conquered Kalyāṇapuram, did not have the title Vijayarājēndra, and as far as we know, did not die on an elephant in battle. These features distinctly recall Rājādhirāja I (\*ARE\*. 1925 II 16), whose third year would fall, however, about A.D. 1021, in the reign of Rājēndra I. (See also 472 of 1920—Yr. 4 of Kulōttunga I). If this view is correct, I am not sure it is, the theory, that during the Ālanguḍi famine the state could not help the sufferers owing to the treasury being impoverished by the horse-sacrifice of Rājādhirāja (\*ARE\*. 1899 I 53), cannot stand. But after all the famine might have occurred in the reign of Rājēndra II, about A.D. 1055; only the king might have been wrongly described in the record of Rājarāja II. The horse-sacrifice is, however, mentioned in the inscriptions of Rājādhirāja as early as the 26th year, A.D. 1044, if not earlier. - [Previous: c19.115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.115) - [Next: c19.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.117) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19) ## Cites (1) - [South Indian Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.south.sii) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.116) · Pramāṇa