The Colas c23.5

c23.5

Towards the close of the reign of Rājarāja II, some years after Rājādhirāja had been chosen for the succession, a fierce succession dispute broke out in the Pāṇḍya country, and one of the rival parties appealed to the powerful Sinhalese ruler Parākramabāhu I (A.D. 1153-86) and the other to the Cō'a monarch. The war soon resolved itself into a continuation of the old struggle between the Cōḷa and Ceylon kingdoms. The intercession brought no good to either; out of the ashes of the civil war arose the Pāṇḍya power which in its renewed strength soon swallowed up both the kingdoms which had espoused the rival causes of the protagonists in the civil war.