Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.149

c7.149

Dr. Venkata Ramanayya affirms:* "The evidence at our disposal is so very overwhelming that we have to accept the historicity of Trilōcana and his contemporaneity with Karikāla as genuine historical facts."† In saying this, he has apparently been influenced by the number and range of the epigraphical and literary references he has brought together in the schedules at the end of his booklet. But all that is established by these references is that the Trilōcana story was widely