The Colas c24.20

c24.20

For the rest of his reign, Rājarāja continued to enjoy his position without any serious trouble. The provenance of Rājarāja's inscriptions shows that for the bulk of the period his nominal sway extended over practically the whole of the Cōḷa kingdom as it was at the death of Kulōttunga III. The contents of the inscriptions indicate equally clearly the growing dependence of the Cōḷa power on Hoysala support and the progressive increase of local disorders and treasons and the disregard of the feudatories of the empire for the central power. The forms of central government and local administration appear to have remained the same as before; but the executive strength of the government, never very great in the Hindu state, but realised in a greater measure under the great Cōḷas than under any other dynasty, was now visibly on the wane. In A.D. 1246,³⁹ Rājēndra was recognised as heir apparent, as is seen from the dates in his inscriptions. But Rājarāja lived on till at least 1260.