The Colas c23.46

c23.46

In the ninth year of Kulōttunga III, A.D. 1187, Nallasiddharasa, the ruler of Nellore acknowledges the suzerainty of Kulōttunga III.⁹⁰ Three years later, A.D. 1190, a Siddhi, called also Madhurāntaka Pottappic-cōḷa, makes a gift to the temple at Nellore, citing the twelfth regnal year of his Cōḷa overlord, Kulōttunga.⁹¹ Then we have a number of gifts, registered in the name of Nūngama, the queen of Nallasiddha, to the temples at Tiruppālaivanam (Chingleput), Kāḷahasti (Chittoor), and Nandalūr (Cuddapah); these records are dated in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-fourth regnal years of Kulōttunga III.⁹² It may be noted in passing that a record of Kulōttunga himself, dated in his nineteenth year, is found in the town of Nellore.⁹³ In another inscription from Nandalūr,⁹⁴ Nallasiddha, the son of Madhurāntaka Pottappic-cōḻa Eṟamasiddha, acknowledges the overlordship of Kulōttunga in his twenty-sixth year, A.D. 1204. The latest record in which Nallasiddha recognises Kulōttunga’s suzerainty is dated nine years later, A.D. 1213.⁹⁵ But in the interval between 1204 and 1213, we have two records of his brother Tammusiddha⁹⁶ from the Nellore and Chingleput districts, one of his son Bētarasa⁹⁷ at Kāñcīpuram; another from Nandalūr of probably the same prince or another, who is here called Tirukkāḷattidēva, the Tikkanṛpa of literature, and who makes an endowment for the benefit of his father Manumasittarasan and of (alias ?) Nallisiddha;⁹⁸ and in all these inscriptions, the princes concerned take good care to define in an unmistakable manner their vassal position in relation to Kulōttunga. And this relation is continued almost up to the end of Kulōttunga’s reign by another record of the Tirukkāḷattidēva mentioned above⁹⁹ dated in the 36th year of Kulōttunga, and yet another¹⁰⁰ from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, dated two years later and mentioning an agent of Śittaraśan in that place.