The Colas c23.53
The Cōḷas c23.53
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c23.53
In an inscription of the third year¹⁰⁸ (A.D. 1218-19) of Sundara Pāṇḍya, he is described by the title: *Śōṉāḍu vaḷaṅgiyaruḷiya*, 'who was pleased to give (back) the Cōḷa country.' Another inscription of his fifteenth year¹⁰⁹ states specifically that he gave a crown and Muḍikoṇḍa-śōḷa-puram to Kulōttunga-Cōḷa. Sundara Pāṇḍya's inscriptions are actually found in the Cōḷa country, though none of them seems to fall within Kulōttunga's reign.¹¹⁰ But the two inscriptions of Sundara Pāṇḍya just cited leave no room for doubt that the last years of Kulōttunga turned out disastrously for him and that in his old age, he had to taste the bitter fruit of the Pāṇḍyan policy of his earlier years. We must now let the *praśasti* of Māṟavarman Sundara Pāṇḍya I describe the course of events: