The Colas c19.65

c19.65

For the transactions of the rest of Vīrarājēndra's reign we have to depend exclusively on the shorter *praśasti* in its later editions. Records of the seventh year¹⁶⁴ mention that Vīrarājēndra conquered Kaḍāram on behalf of a king who had come in search of his aid and protection, and handed it over to him. If the place of this event in these records indicates its chronological position in the reign, it must have occurred before the sixth year, *c.* A.D. 1068. We know as yet little of the relations between the Cōḷas and the empire of Śrī Vijaya, which no doubt is signified by the term Kaḍāram, in the interval that elapsed between Rājēndra's campaign against Saṅgrāma-Vijayōttuṅga-varman and the reign of Vīrarājēndra. Consequently we have no means of elucidating this brief reference to a second expedition against Kaḍāram in this reign.