The Colas c20.15

c20.15

If Rājēndra-Kulōttunga was first crowned as lord of Vēṅgī, as the later E. Cāḷukya plates assert (in contradiction to those of Vijayāditya), it is remarkable that these plates fail to give us the exact date of this coronation as they do of most other coronations. The Telugu inscriptions of Kulōttunga containing both regnal years and Śaka dates support the date A.D. 1070 for the commencement of his rule, and this was the date of his accession to the Cōḷa throne.²²