The Colas c22.14

c22.14

A large number of feudatory chieftains and officers are mentioned in the *Vikramaśōlan-ulā* and in the inscriptions. The list of maṇḍalikas given in the *ulā* begins with the celebrated conqueror of Kalingam, Karuṇākara Toṇḍaimān.³⁴ Then there are mentioned in order: the chief of the Munaiyar, minister and warrior of Abhaya; Śōḻakōn who distinguished himself in campaigns in the west against the Kongas, Gangas and Mahrathas;³⁵ the Brahmin Kaṇṇan of the great fortress; Vāṇan, dexterous in the use of his beautiful bow in battle, possibly the same as Śuttamallan Muḍikoṇḍān *alias* Vāṇakōvaraiyar whose *dēvi* Elvār-kuḻali endowed a lamp a Tiruvaḍatturai in A.D. 1120;³⁶ Kālingar-kōn *alias* Naralōkavīra who fought with distinction, as already noted, in the southern wars of Kulōttunga's reign and was afterwards a great builder; the Kāḍava who rode a rutting elephant and was Lord of the Śeñjiyar of the strong embattled fortress;³⁷ the king of Vēṇāḍ (South Travancore) who banished Kali from the earth (by good rule); Anantapāla whose charities were well-known from the Kumari to the Ganges, perhaps the same as the Sēnāpati Śankaran Ambalam-kōyil Koṇḍān *alias* Anantapālar who made a large endowment at Tiruvāḍuturai in A.D. 1121;³⁸ the Vattava whose fierce elephant battered down the three ramparts of Northern Maṇṇai which belonged to hostile kings;³⁹ the lord of the sacred Cēdi country who destroyed the fortifications of the Karṇāṭas in a fierce fight;⁴⁰ the chief of Kārānai (?) ever victorious in war; Adigan who cut to pieces the army of North Kalinga and compelled the proud kings who had vowed war to seek refuge in flight;⁴¹ a Nuḷamba-Pallava who had earned distinction in fights at Kōṭṭār and Kollam belonging to the Pāṇḍyas; the Trigarta who subdued Kongu and Coorg, and others including the Pāṇḍya and Kēraḷa of whom no details are given and some of whom like the Māgadha and Māḷava are introduced with no apparent historical justification. From the inscriptions we can gather the names of the following feudatory chieftains and families of the Tamil country: Śūrai Nāyakan *alias* Mādhavarāyan, son of Arumbākkilān Ponnambalakkūttan *alias* Naralōkavīra;⁴² the Śāmbuvarāyas of the Śengēṇi line, afterwards an important dynasty of quasi-independent rulers in the region of North Arcot, the ancestors of the future Yādavarāyas in the neighbourhood of Kālahasti, and several others.