The Colas c19.25

c19.25

Briefly and without much detail, Rājadhirāja's *praśastis* tell us that he employed his father's brother, his own brothers, elder and younger, and his sons, in important offices of state and constituted them into subordinate rulers of particular regions. The star of Rājādhirāja's nativitiy was Pūrva-Phālgunī.⁸⁷ Gaṅgaikoṇḍa-cōḷapuram was his capital.⁸⁸ His queens do not figure as prominently in his records as in those of other reigns; Trailōkyam Uḍaiyār was the title, rather than the name, of one of them,⁸⁹ who, if she was the same as the *nambirāṭṭiyār* mentioned in an inscription of the third year of Rājēndra II,⁹⁰ may be taken to have survived her husband. Besides the title Vijayarājēndra assumed by him at Kalyāṇapuram, Rājādhirāja had other surnames like Vīrarājēndra-varman,⁹¹ Āhavamalla-kulāntaka,⁹² and Kalyāṇapurangoṇḍa-śōḷa.⁹³ Mention is made of a spiritual preceptor (*gurudēvar*) of the king by name Adhikārikaḷ Pārāśaryan Vāsudēvanārāyaṇan, also called Ulagaḷanda-śōḷa Bramamārāyan;⁹⁴ one wonders if Ulagaḷanda-śōḷa was also a title of Rājādhirāja, and whether a revenue survey was undertaken, in his reign, of a part of the country.⁹⁵ Among the feudatories of Rājādhirāja mentioned in his records may be noticed Daṇḍanāyakan Śōḷan Kumaran Parāntaka Mārāyan alias Rājādhirāja Nīla-gaṅgaraiyar⁹⁶; a certain Piḷḷaiyār Śōḷa-vallabha-dēva whose wife was called Pañcavan-mahādēviyār⁹⁷; Daṇḍanāyaka Appimayya,⁹⁸ governor of Mahārājavāḍi 7000, who had Vallūru in the Cuddapah district as the seat of his government, and who may or may not be the same as Rājarāja Brahmādhirāja⁹⁹ who is mentioned in the very next year as ruler of the same province; and Piḷḷaiyār Viṣṇuvardhana-dēva, doubtless Rājarāja I of Vēngī, whose queen Ammangādēvi was the daughter of Rājēndra I and the sister of Rājādhirāja, and who is said to have presented, in A.D. 1050, three hundred Rājarāja-māḍas, gold coins of the Vēngī kingdom, to the temple at Tiruvaiyāṟu in the Tanjore district.¹⁰⁰ There was also Sēnāpati Rājēndraśōḻa Māvalivāṇarāyar, an official who apparently took his title from Rājēndra I under whom his public career might have begun, and who made a large endowment for higher education, of which more will be said in another place.