The Colas c24.12

c24.12

The events that followed this attempt to throw off the Pāṇḍyan allegiance are described in the Pāṇḍya *praśasti*, in a unique historical inscription from Tiruvēndipuram,²² and in the historical romance, *Gadyakarṇāmṛta* of Kāḷakaḷabha, composed not many years after the events. The reference to the events of the time by the last author is very brief, but illuminating. Without his assistance, the proper sequence of events must have remained a matter of conjecture, and not the certainty that it now is.