Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.158

c7.158

This verse clearly marks a distinct break in the succession after Karikāla I, and this inscription though it mentions the construction of the Kāvērī banks knows nothing of Trilōcana. On the other hand, the other record of about seventy years later, gives a long genealogy in Telugu in which most of the legendary figures like Kaśyapa, Manu, Bhagīratha and Rāma make their appearance, but not Jaṭācōḍa, the father of Karikāla and ruler of Ayōdhyā, who in his digvijaya conquered the Drāviḍa-pañcaka and set up his rule in Uraiyūr, and whose son, according to the