Studies in Cola History and Administration c14.58

c14.58

at any rate, it is only by an oversight of the list of chieftains furnished by the *Vikramaśōḻaṉ-ulā* that Karuṇākara Toṇṭaimāṉ could ever have been confused with our Kāliṅgar-kōṉ, Naralōkavīra. The reference in the *ulā*, and the repeated statements in the inscriptions that he fought for increasing the power of his overlord Abhaya make it very clear that Naralōkavīra was a captain of the Cōḻa army in the days of Kulōttuṅga I and his son Vikrama Cōḻa, and that at the end of a very successful military career, he secured Maṇavil in Toṇṭaināṭ as his fief. It may be conjectured also, from his surname Kāliṅgar-kōṉ, that he might at one time have acted as governor of Kaliṅga; but of this we cannot be sure as there are so many Kāliṅgarāyas in the mediaeval records of the Pāṇḍyas and the Cōḻas, and as we do not know how this name came to be applied to them.