The Colas c22.2

c22.2

Vikramacōḷa's accession to the Cōḷa throne took place on or about 29 June A.D. 1118.¹ He must have ruled for some time jointly with his father, Kulōttunga, whose latest inscriptions are dated in the fiftieth year, A.D. 1120, or even the fifty-second.² The asterism of Vikramacōḷa's birth was Uttiraṭṭādi in the month of Āni.³ He inherited an attenuated empire confined to the Tamil country proper, and the seventeen years of his rule appear to have been on the whole a period of peace. A few inscriptions in the Gaṅga country, and a somewhat larger number from the Telugu area constitute the only proofs of the efforts made during the reign to recover lost ground—efforts crowned with better success in the north than in the western country.