[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) › c19.40 # The Colas c19.40 The Cōḷas c19.40 - **Language:** English ### [c19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.40) Among the king's relatives installed in different posts in the empire, the Maṇimaṅgalam inscription of the fourth year mentions no fewer than thirteen persons,—a paternal uncle (\*śiriya-tātai\*) of the king, four younger brothers of his, six sons and two grandsons.¹⁰⁷ The later records of the reign give a shorter list of only six persons so employed comprising the paternal uncle of the earlier record, his son—a new figure, only three of the four younger brothers mentioned before, and one son of the king Rājēndra-śōḻan; why the rest are omitted it is not easy to explain. One wonders if they had all died in the interval, or were found unfit even for subordinate employment. There seems to be no evidence whatever by which this can be settled. The fact deserves to be noted, however, in view of somewhat hasty statements which, on very slender evidence, fasten on Kulōttuṅga I a series of cold-blooded political murders calculated to clear his way to the Cōḷa throne.¹⁰⁸ The date of the shorter list would fall about A.D. 1061, nine years before the accession of Kulōttuṅga. Among the titles conferred on these members of the royal family, some like Cōḷa-Pāṇḍyan, Cōḷa-Gaṅgan and Cōḷa-Kēraḷan perhaps connoted the charge of the administration of the particular provinces named; others seem to have been merely titles of personal distinction giving no idea of the spheres of their duties, if any. Such titles are Irumaḍi-śōḷan, Karikāla-śōḻan, Uttama-śōḻan, Vijayālayan, and even names like Śōḻa-Ayōddhirājan and Śōḻa-Kannakucciyan. Only the Cōḷa-Paṇḍya viceroys seem to have left behind a number of inscriptions of their own in the land over which they held sway; but even in their case, it is extremely difficult to identify the particular viceroy from his records, the first viceroy Jaṭāvarman Sundara alone excepted.¹⁰⁹ - [Previous: c19.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.39) - [Next: c19.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.41) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.40) · Pramāṇa