The Colas c24.30

c24.30

The intervention of the Hoysala power secured for the Cōḷa kingdom a somewhat longer lease of life than the Pāṇḍyas would have allowed it; but this respite was not obtained without some cost, and it is worth while tracing the part of the Hoysala princes and generals in the affairs of the Cōḷa country as revealed by the Cōḷa inscriptions themselves. An inscription from Tiruvaḍatturai (in the Vṛddhācalam taluq of the South Arcot district) dated in the tenth year,⁴⁷ A.D. 1226, states that the Hoysala king Narasimhadēva had destroyed the country and carried away images from the temple of that village some time before, and records the re-consecration of the temple. The date of this record seems to rule out the possibility of connecting these transactions with the campaign of Appaṇṇa and Samudra Goppayya, recorded in the Tiruvēndipuram inscription.⁴⁸ It has been pointed out before that Narasimha might have taken the side of the Cōḷa earlier on the occasion of the first Pāṇḍyan invasion and proceeded against the Kāḍava ally of the Pāṇḍyan invader.⁴⁹ Possibly, Tiruvaḍatturai was then in the occupation of the Kāḍava and suffered damage as part of the enemy country. The Kāḍava was forced once more to acknowledge the Cōḷa overlordship, and when peace was restored, the people became free to repair the damages inflicted by war. The presence of Hoysala troops (*bhēruṇḍas*) at Kāñcī about this time is attested by the gift of a lamp to Attiyūr Āḻvār by Bācaladēvi, the daughter of Bhūtadēya-nāyaka of Dōrasamudra,⁵⁰ of another lamp three years later by the *mahāpradhāni* Ammaṇṇa Daṇḍanāyaka,⁵¹ and of a whole village by Goppayya Daṇḍanāyaka in A.D. 1231.⁵² Some time later a *pradhāni* of Sōmēśvara, the son and successor of Narasimha, also makes a gift at Kāñcī.⁵³