The Colas c31.12

c31.12

From the reign of Kulōttunga I, several other types of *māḍais* make their appearance in the inscriptions, and these were undoubtedly issued by local rulers who were feudatories of the Cōḷa empire. Examples of such issues are: the *jayamāḍa* mentioned in a record from Cebrōlu dated Ś. 998;¹⁸ the *uttama-gaṇḍa-māḍa* of a Bāpatla inscription;¹⁹ the *cāmara-māḍa* and the *biruda-* *māḍa* in somewhat later records from the same place;²⁰ the *nakki-māḍa* mentioned in an inscription from Kāñcīpuram, dated in the fourteenth year of Rājādhirāja II,²¹ and recording a gift from a chieftain from Gaṅga-maṇḍalam, who had the title Bhujabalavīran; the *Bhujabala-māḍai*, first mentioned in an inscription of the third year of Kulōttuṅga, perhaps the third of that name, from Nandalūr;²² and in later records from Kāñcīpuram and Tiruppālaivanam;²³ the *paḻam-puḷḷi-māḍai* of a record from Tirumullaivāyil dated 1232;²⁴ and the *gaṇḍa-gōpālan-māḍai* obviously issued by the Telugu-Cōḍa chieftains of Nellore who were contemporary with Rājarāja III and Rājēndra III.²⁵