The Colas c19.160
The Cōḷas c19.160
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c19.160
Dr. Venkataramaṇayya holds that Sōmēśvara I deceived Vīrarājēndra by a false message promising to meet him at Kūḍal-Saṅgamam while he really meant to carry the war into the Cōḷa country by sending his son Vikramāditya to the south along the west coast; this was why Sōmēśvara went to the western ocean and the Cōḷa inscriptions misrepresent this as a flight. The evidence relied on for this reconstruction is mainly Bilhaṇa's *kāvya* (*Eastern Cāḷukyas*, pp. 259 ff).