[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) › c19.92 # The Colas c19.92 The Cōḷas c19.92 - **Language:** English ### [c19.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.92) 62. The vague phrase ‘\*balavac-cōḷa-narendra-darpa-dalanam\*’ at the beginning of a stereotyped Kannaḍa verse in some of his records means little; it is repeated of his son Sōmēśvara II, and as Barnett has observed of the conquests detailed in this verse, the list ‘seems to be more epic than historical’. (\*EI.\* xv. p. 86 n. 6; pp. 87, 97). The inscriptions noticed by Fleet (\*DKD.\* p. 441) are of a later date and will be considered in the proper place. I find it impossible to attach any value to the poetry of Bilhaṇa who in his \*Vikramāṅkadevacarita\* makes Sōmēśvara enter Kāñcīpuram in victory, (I. 114-7). It was more or less the poet’s job to do it as Sōmēśvara was the father of Bilhaṇa’s more fortunate hero Vikramāditya VI. - [Previous: c19.91](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.91) - [Next: c19.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.93) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19) ## Cites (2) - [Vikramāṅkadevacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.daksinatya.purvadaksina.vikramankadeva) — Bilhaṇa, Sanskrit - [Sūḍi, Mallikārjuna Temple, Śaka 980 (1058 CE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.kalyana-calukya.sudi-mallikarjuna-temple-saka-980*barnett1920) — Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1935-colas.c19.92) · Pramāṇa