Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.148

c7.148

So it comes about that Eastern Cāḷukya legends dating from the 11th century A.D., and dealing with the fifth, explain how the Western Cāḷukyas* found a lodgement in South India in the seventh century A.D. Perhaps one of the unknown terms of alliance between Vijayāditya and Karikāla was that the former should die at the hands of Triṇētra in a fight, and that Karikāla should live not only to reap the benefit of the alliance, but to put out the third eye of Triṇētra and help Vijayāditya's Western descendants to settle in South India!