Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.106

c7.106

∗ The ingenuity of Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar discovers a common legendary *motif* even here, and he makes the suggestion that Karikāla was made to await in his mother’s womb the arrival of an auspicious hour for his birth. The same story is told in great detail of Kōccaṅgaṇāṉ in the *Periyapurāṇam* and, I believe, of Āditya the son of Parāntaka in the *Sevvaṇḍippurāṇam*. Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Aiyangar (*Tamils* p. 338) thinks that “it refers to his (Karikāla’s) being the posthumous child of Iḷaiyōṉ”