The Colas c25.16

c25.16

An image of Sundara Cōḷa Parāntaka II is said to have been set up in the temple at Tanjore and arrangements made for its worship by his daughter Kundavai who also endowed another image either of herself or her mother in the same place.²⁶ There were also images of Rājarāja and his queen Lōkamahādēvī.²⁷ The temple in the village of Śembiyanmahādēvi, so called after the pious queen of Gaṇḍarāditya, contained an image of the queen, likewise regularly worshipped.²⁸ Inscribed images of a more or less authentic character supposed to represent Rājēndra and Cōḷamahādēvi are found to-day in the temples of Tanjore and Kāḷahasti.²⁹ These examples are enough to establish the divine honours accorded to royal personages after death, and sometimes in their lifetime.