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⁴ V. Venkayya is of opinion that this Vīrarājēndra Chōḷa is a different person from the Chōḷa emperor of the same name (IA, xxxvii (1909), p. 356). The chronological data furnished by his inscriptions, in which the Śaka years 1174, 1178, 1185 are coupled respectively with his 9th, 13th, and 20th regnal years, show that he came to the throne in Śaka 1165, that is A.D. 1243-4; and though he appears to have begun his reign some three years before the date of accession assigned to the Chōḷa emperor Rājēndra III, yet the fact that he is mentioned as the overlord both of the Telugu Chōḷa chief Tikka I and of his son Munuma Siddhi II would seem to indicate that Vīrarājēndra Chōḷa and Rājēndra Chōḷa III are in fact identical (Nellore Inscriptions, G. 39, 85, 90; U. 48).