The Colas c21.55

c21.55

The Empire of Kulōttunga still retained its greatest extent in his forty-fifth regnal year or thereabouts. Barring the loss of Ceylon, the troubles and risings in the first years of the reign had not resulted in any serious loss of territory. The boundary between the Western Cāḷukya and Cōḷa dominions was what it had always been, a shifting frontier in the neighbourhood of the Tungabhadrā, whose exact position at any particular time is to be determined by the provenance of contemporary inscriptions. The presence of Kulōttunga's inscriptions in Nandalūr (Cuddapah) called Kulōttunga-śōḷa-Caturvēdimangalam, and in Tripurāntakam (Karnūl),¹⁰⁶ as also in the Mysore country up to the forty-fifth year¹⁰⁷ proves that the rule of Kulōttunga was successfully maintained in these quarters. The hold over Vēṅgī was quite firm and had rendered possible a successful invasion of the territory of its northern neighbour, Kalinga.