The Colas c23.14

c23.14

That under Rājādhirāja the Cōḷa empire continued to retain the same proportions as under Rāja-rāja II may be inferred from the provenance of his inscriptions which are found in Nellore and Kāḷahasti and Nandalūr.²¹ Even a part of the Ganga country would seem still to have been included in the Cōḷa empire, if the Cōḷa-mahārāja Ghaṭṭi-nuḷamba Bhujabala-vīra Āhōmallarasa, described in a Kāñcīpuram inscription²² as the Mahāmaṇḍalika of Gangamaṇḍala, was in fact a feudatory of Rājādhirāja II. An inscription from Āttūr²³ in the Tanjore district is issued in the name of Tribhuvana-cakravartin Karikālacōḷadēva who took Madura and Īḻam, and obviously the inscription belongs to this period; it seems legitimate to infer that Karikāla was a title of Rājādhirāja II, an inference which is confirmed by another inscription (from Cidambaram) which couples the names Rājādhirāja and Karikāla.²⁴ A damaged record from Tiruvīḷimiḻalai,²⁵ which bears no date, mentions the place Komaran Kulōttunga-śōḻa-caturvēdimangalam in the Tiruvaḻundūr-nāḍu; the village seems to have been named after prince Kulōttunga, afterwards Kulōttunga III, an inscription of whose reign²⁶ mentions gifts made in the same village as early as the third year of Periyadēvar, evidently Rājādhirāja II; the relation of Kulōttunga III to Rājādhirāja, if any, is not clear.