The Colas c21.36

c21.36

Vīrarājēndra, as we have seen, claims to have sent an expedition to Kaḍāram (Śrī Vijaya) in A.D. 1068 and to have conquered that country on behalf of one of its rulers who sought his protection and to have established him on the throne. This seems not improbable, and might have resulted in a vague recognition of the suzerainty of the Cōḻa power by the new ruler. However that may be, the king of Śrī Vijaya sent an embassy to Kulōttunga I about 1090 and requested him to issue a copper-plate grant containing the names of the villages granted by the Cōḻa kings as *paḷḷic-candam* to the two *vihāras* built by the king of Kaḍāram at Śōḻa-kulavalli-paṭṭiṇam, evidently another name for Negapatam. In the smaller Leyden grant,⁷⁹ for it is by this name that Kulōttunga's grant made on this occasion is generally known, the two *vihāras* are called Rājēndra-sōḻap-perumbaḷḷi and Rājarājap-perumbaḷḷi;⁸⁰ the latter having also the alternative name Śrī Śailēndra-Cūḍāmaṇivarma-Vihāra,⁸¹ showing its indentity with the *vihāra* mentioned in the Larger Leyden grant of the reign of Rājarāja I. The embassy from Kaḍāram comprised two envoys (*dūtas*) Rājavidyādhara Śrī Sāmanta and Abhimānōttunga Sāmanta, who petitioned the King (*viṇṇappam śeyya*) for the issue of the grant, while he was seated on his throne Kālingarāyan in the coronation-hall (*tirumañjana śālai*)⁸² inside the palace at Āyirattaḷi *alias* Āhavamallakula-Kālapuram. And the longer *praśasti* of Kulōttuṅga's inscriptions mentions the fact that at the gate of his palace stood rows of elephants showering jewels sent as tribute from the island kingdoms of the wide ocean.⁸³ Another proof of the continued friendly relations between the two kingdoms in this period comes from Sumatra. It is a fragmentary Tamil inscription dated 1010