[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) › c19.66 # The Colas c19.66 The Cōḷas c19.66 - **Language:** English ### [c19.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.66) On the death of Sōmēśvara I, Sōmēśvara II came to the Cāḷukyan throne in A.D. 1068 (11 April), and Vīrarājēndra took the occasion to renew the ancient feud. The inscriptions of Sōmēśvara II state this fact clearly and imply that the Cōḷa began by attacking the fortress of Gutti and ended by retreating in haste before Sōmēśvara.¹⁶⁵ The Cōḷa inscriptions and Bilhaṇa tell another story. The former state that before Sōmēśvara could untie his \*kaṇṭhikā\*, that is, on the occasion of his coronation as king,¹⁶⁶ Vīrarājēndra burnt the city of Kampili and set up a pillar of victory at Karaḍigal, a village in the Lingsagar Taluk of the Raicūr district,¹⁶⁷ and that he forced Sōmēśvara to abandon the Kannara country, and invested the Śaḷukki Vikramāditya with the \*kaṇṭhikā\* and Raṭṭapāḍi seven and a half lakh country conquered on his account, because he had come and sought the aid of the Cōḷa monarch.¹⁶⁸ This occasion is no doubt the one mentioned in the \*Takkayāgapparaṇi\* which says that the Cōḷa king, here called Rājagambhīra, took away the fillet of royalty from the Piraṭṭan and conferred it on the Iraṭṭan for the protection of the celebrated seven and a half lakh country.¹⁶⁹ And the \*Vikramāṅkadēva Carita\* tells the same story, embellished from the standpoint of the hero of the poem. Soon after his father's death and brother's accession, Vikramāditya VI quarrelled with his brother who had fallen into evil courses, and left Kalyāṇa with his younger brother Jayasimha and destroyed the troops sent by his elder brother Sōmēśvara in pursuit of him. He reached the Tuṅgabhadrā and rested his army for a time. ¹⁷⁰ Then he became desirous of war with the Cōḷas and started on the expedition after spending some time in Banavāsi. Jayakēśi and the Āḷupa king did him obeisance,¹⁷¹ and the Cōḷa himself, unable to resist the advance, sent an ambassador and offered his daughter in marriage to the Cāḷukya prince, and Vikrama agreed to retire to the banks of the Tungabhadrā, where the Cōḷa king subsequently met him, the marriage was celebrated and the alliance between the two kings concluded.¹⁷² It may be noted that Jayakēśi I, the Kaḍamba king of Goa who was ruling in this period, is said in Kaḍamba inscriptions to have placed the Western Cāḷukya firmly on his own throne, and to have brought about peace between the Cōḷa and the Cāḷukya at Kāñcī. All these lines - [Previous: c19.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.65) - [Next: c19.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.67) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vikramāṅkadevacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.daksinatya.vikramankadeva) — Bilhaṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.66) · Pramāṇa