[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) › c19.156 # The Colas c19.156 The Cōḷas c19.156 - **Language:** English ### [c19.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.156) ¹⁵¹ This, I think, is the real meaning, as suggested by A. V. Venkatarama Aiyar (\*Life and Times of Cāḷukya Vikramāditya VI\*. Tamil Edn. pp. 22-3 and n. 3). Hultzsch understands this rather obscure passage as referring to Vīrarājēndra's alliance with Vikramāditya. But that, I think, belongs to a later stage of the war when Sōmēśvara I was no more and to the first fight of Vīrarājēndra with Sōmēśvara II. On the present occasion, Vīrarājēndra is still fighting the entire family of Sōmēśvara I and on every front. The difference between Vikramāditya VI and his brother which gave Vīrarājēndra the chance of an alliance with the former did not, it seems, arise until after the death of Sōmēśvara I, of which Vīrarājēndra had no knowledge on this occasion. The Maṇimangalam inscription of the fifth year, therefore, cannot be said to anticipate, as Hultzsch says it does (\*SII\*. iii pp. 194-195), the events recorded in the inscriptions of the sixth and seventh years of Vīrarājēndra. For one thing, the word \*piraṭṭan\* in l. 27 of the Maṇimangalam record makes it impossible for us to identify him with Vikramāditya VI (cf. l. 22 of the same record; also \*Takkayāgapparaṇi\* v. 774, where \*piraṭṭan\*, an unfriendly Cāḷukya, is contrasted with \*iraṭṭan\*, a friendly one). Again the expressions of the records of the sixth and seventh years make it clear that they are referring to a single occasion, which is different from that of the Maṇimangalam record and in which Vikramāditya became friends with Vīrarājēndra. \*SII\*. iii. 83 (Yr. 6) says that Vīrarājēndra burnt Kampili and occupied Karaḍigal before Sōmēśvara (II) could untie his necklace (ll. 7-8), and this is the first occasion of an encounter with the Cāḷukyas after the conquest of Vēṅgī - [Previous: c19.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.155) - [Next: c19.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.157) - [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.c19.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.156) · Pramāṇa