The Colas c24.18

c24.18

Other inscriptions confirm these facts and in one important respect supplement the Tiruvēndipuram record. One of them states that Appaṇṇa and Goppayya earned the praises of Narasimha by attacking the Kāḍavarāya and releasing the Cōḷa.³¹ Another inscription dated A.D. 1232 states that the country round Niḍūr in the Tanjore district was formerly ruled by Kōpperuñjinga, and records a revision of the rules of tenancy cultivation rendered necessary thereby.31a An undated inscription from Vāyalūr (Vailur, N. Arcot)³² mentions that Kōpperuñjinga *alias* Aḷagiya Śīya defeated the Cōḷa King at Teḷḷāṟu (30 miles south of Kāñcī), a fact mentioned nowhere else, and having cast him and his ministers in prison, occupied the Cōḷa country. After the brief prose passage recording these facts, there occur five verses in different metres in praise of Kōpperuñjinga's heroism in which, of course, we hear nothing of the release of the Cōḷa or of the success of the Hoysaḷa generals, but only of the defeat of the Karṇāṭas and the glories of Kōpperuñjinga, also called by the titles Avani-Nārāyaṇa, Nṛpatunga, and ruler of Toṇḍai and Mallai. The same features recur in other inscriptions of his in the Sanskrit language.³³ That Kōpperuñjinga and the Hoysaḷas continued their fights becomes clear from the fact that Vīra Sōmēśvara is said to have encamped at Mangaḷam in the course of a campaign against the Kāḍava in the year Durmukha (A.D. 1236).³⁴