The Colas c23.31

c23.31

A record from Tiruviḍaimarudūr, also dated in the sixteenth year,⁶¹ states that the warriors of Kulōttunga began to guard all places in response to the order: 'Capture Īḻam in the South, so that the *tennavar* (southerners—Pāṇḍya, Kēraḷa, and Śingaḷa?) may come and prostrate themselves, and the head of the Śingaḷavan may be cut off; fill the wavy sea (to make a causeway).' Then we have an inscription of the nineteenth year from Śrīrangam⁶² which repeats the incidents of the Pāṇḍyan war almost in the same words as the Cidambaram inscription of the eleventh year stating also that Vīra Pāṇḍya's second attempt to resist Kulōttunga was made on the field of Neṭṭūr, and adds that, at the end of the battle, he took into his *vēḷam* the young queen (*maḍakkoḍi*) of the Pāṇḍya ruler, and proceeds: