The Colas c22.3

c22.3

The *praśastis* in Vikramacōḷa's inscriptions take two forms,⁴ both dating from his second year and employed throughout the reign. The shorter form commences *pū mādu* (*magaḷ* in some versions) *puṇara*, and the longer one *pū mālai miḍaindu*. Neither of these *praśastis* records any specific political event other than the war against Kaliṅgam and Teliṅga Bhīman waged by Vikramacōḷa in the early years of his Viceroyalty in Vēṅgī.⁵ The longer *praśasti* undergoes, in the later years of the reign,⁶ an important modification by the insertion in its middle of a passage recording the constructions and endowments made by the king in the temple of Naṭarāja at Cidambaram; this passage contains a definite date in the tenth regnal year, 15 April A.D. 1128.⁷ The inscriptions of Vikramacōḷa sometimes repeat passages and titles from those of Kulōttunga.⁸