The Colas c21.88

c21.88

Many subordinates and feudatories of Kulōttunga are mentioned in his inscriptions. The best known are the two Tamil generals of his army who played the leading part in the conquest of the southern countries and of Kalingam. The important services of Naralōkavīra in the southern wars are borne out not only by the *Vikramaśōḻan-ulā* and the laudatory inscriptions of Cidambaram and Tiruvadi in South Arcot, but by a number of inscriptions from the Pāṇḍya country which mention his titles and record gifts made by him. He was a highly respected official who enjoyed a large fief in Maṇavil and was responsible for many improvements in the old temple cities of Cidambaram and Tiruvadi. He is called the prime-minister of Jayadhara and he continued to serve Vikramacōḷa after Kulōttunga's death.¹⁶⁵ For the career of the other great general, who led the expedition against Northern Kalingam, we depend mainly on literary sources—the *Kalingattupparaṇi* and *Vikramaśōḻan-ulā*.¹⁶⁶ Karuṇākara Toṇḍaimān was apparently a descendant of the Pallavas, and true to the traditions of the Pallavas, Jayangoṇḍār describes him as born in the family descended from Brahmā.¹⁶⁷ He is generally called the ruler of Vaṇḍainagar, which is also called Vaṇḍāḷañjēri in Tirunaraiyūr-nāḍu, a sub-division of Kulōttunga-śōḻavaḷanāḍu in the Śōlamaṇḍalam,¹⁶⁸ and is now represented by Vaṇḍuvāñjēri¹⁶⁹ in the Kūmbakōṇam taluq. The inscription from Kāñcīpuram, which records the details of the situation of the fief of Karuṇākara, also mentions the name of his wife Aḻagiyamaṇavāḷani-maṇḍaiyāḻvār. Karuṇākara had an elder brother whose flag displayed the usual Pallava emblem of a white bull, who assisted him in the Kalinga war,¹⁷⁰ and who is mentioned under the name Sēnāpati-Pallavaraśar in an inscription of A.D. 1099 from Tiruppanandāḷ.¹⁷¹ From the reference in the *Vikramaśōḻan-ulā* it is clear that Karuṇākara, like Naralōkavīra, survived Kulōttunga, and served Vikramacōḷa for some years.