The Colas c21.82

c21.82

The copper-plate grants state that Kulōttunga married Madhurāntaki, the daughter of Rājēndradēva of the Solar race, doubtless Rājēndra II Cōḻa. Considering that the sons born of this marriage became successively Viceroys of Vēṅgī from a.d. 1077, it seems probable that this marriage alliance must have been contracted some years before Kulōttunga's accession to the Cōḻa throne. Madhurāntaki had seven sons of whom Vikrama-cōḻa, the successor of Kulōttunga, was perhaps the fourth.¹⁵⁶ She is not mentioned by name in any of the *praśastis* in the stone records; it is however, possible that, as the chief queen, she is referred to in them as *puvana-muḻuduḍaiyāḷ* or *avani-muḻuduḍaiyāḷ*, 'the mistress of the whole world.' If this view is correct it follows that Dīnacintāmaṇi was also a surname of the same queen.¹⁵⁷ She seems to have died some time before the thirtieth year of Kulōttunga when Tyāgavalli took her place as chief queen with the title *puvana-muḻuduḍaiyāḷ*. The *Kaliṅgattu-pparaṇi*, it may be noted, only mentions her and Ēḻiśai-vallabhi,¹⁵⁸ and distinctly states that Tyāgavalli enjoyed the right to equal authority with the king. Ēḻiśai-vallabhi is also called Ēḻulaguḍaiyāḷ, 'the mistress of the seven worlds', both in the inscriptions and in the *Kaliṅgattu-pparaṇi*. The same title is applied to Nambirāṭṭiyār Śīrāman Arumoḻi-naṅgai in an inscription¹⁵⁹ of the twenty-sixth regnal year; if this reference is also to the same queen, as most probably it is, her personal name must have been Arumoḻi-naṅgai. Other queens mentioned in the inscriptions are: Trailōkya-mahādēvī who endowed a lamp in the Ārpākkam temple in a.d.