The Colas c22.5

c22.5

With the recall of Vikramacōḷa to the south in A.D. 1118, the administration of Vēṅgī passed into the hands of the Velanāṇḍu prince Cōḍa, the son of Goṅka I.¹⁰ Very soon, however, the Western Cāḷukya king, Vikramāditya VI, took advantage of Vikramacōḷa's absence from Vēṅgī to extend his sway into that kingdom and reduce the Velanāṇḍu chief to subjection. Soon after the death of Vikramāditya in A.D. 1126, Vikramacōḷa's supremacy was re-established in the southern half, if not the whole, of the Vēṅgī country. At Cebrōlu in the Guntur district, in the heart of the region ruled over by Daṇḍanāyaka Anantapāla some years before, the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Nambaya, Lord of the city of Koḷḷipāka (Kulpak) and the Ṣaṭsahasra country, acknowledged the overlordship of Vikramacōḷa in A.D. 1127.¹¹ From the same area, we have another inscription from Niḍubrōlu dated Ś. 1054, the seventeenth regnal year of Vikramacōḷa, in which the Velanāṇḍu chiefs and their dependents continue to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Cōḷa emperor of the South.¹² The steps by which this restoration of Cōḷa supremacy in the north was effected are obscure, but the death of Vikramāditya VI, the effort put forth by Vikramacōḷa and the readiness of the Telugu chieftains to prefer the overlordship of the Cōḷas to that of the Western Cāḷukyas must all have contributed in varying degrees to the restoration.