The Colas c23.15

c23.15

Among the officials and feudatories mentioned in the records of Rājādhirāja's reign, the following may be noted. The two most prominent were the two Pallavarāyars whose successes in the Pāṇḍyan civil war have already been dealt with in detail. The elder Pallavarāyar of Kārigai-kuḷattūr, Tirucciṟṟambalam-uḍaiyān Perumānambi, was the trusted lieutenant of Rājarāja II and survived him only long enough to be of service to the widowed queens and the young children of Rājarāja after the demise of the king. The other Pallavarāyar, Paḻaiyanūruḍaiyān Vēdavanamuḍaiyān Ammaiyappan *alias* Aṇṇan Pallavarāyan came into prominence early after Rājādhirāja's accession as he is found making a gift of land in Tiruvārūr in the second year of the reign.²⁷ At the death of Perumānambi, it was Aṇṇan Pallavarāyan who decided the proportion in which the lands belonging to the former were to be distributed among his relatives.²⁸ He also endowed three lamps in the temple of Tiruvālangāḍu, North Arcot, in the thirteenth year of Rājādhirāja. Vēdavanamuḍaiyān Karuṇākaradēvan *alias* Amarakōn of Paḻaiyanūr who endowed lamps in Tiruvalañjuḷi and Pattīśvaram²⁹ was perhaps a relative of Aṇṇan Pallavarāyan.