The Colas c19.50

c19.50

The latest regnal year in Rājēndra's records is the twelfth,¹²⁷ corresponding to A.D. 1063. He was succeeded by Vīrarājēndra already heir-apparent for sometime after the death of Rājamahēndra. Gaṅgāpuri continued to be the Cōḷa capital under Rājēndra II and is mentioned as such in an inscription from Kanyākumārī,¹²⁸ while another from Kuttālam makes mention of a big bazaar within the fort of this capital city.¹²⁹ Of the queens of Rājēndra, only one is mentioned by name in his records, a Kiḷānaḍigaḷ. His daughter Madhurāntakī was the wife of the Eastern Cāḷukya prince Rājēndra II, afterwards Kulōttunga I.¹³⁰ Among the feudatories of Rājēndradēva II, prominent mention is made in his records of the Milāḍa chieftain Narasimhavarman who is said to have ruled Milāḍu 2000 after his abhiṣēka and coronation under this title.¹³¹ Others were Sēnāpati Araiyan Kaḍakkan-goṇḍa-śōḻan,¹³² and Sēnāpati Jayamuri-nāḍāḻvān who is mentioned in an inscription from Ceylon,¹³³ and who may be identical with Araiyan Rājarājan alias Vīrarājēndra Jayamurināḍāḻvān of another inscription from Karuvūr.¹³⁴