Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.159

c7.159

other record, was Karikāla of the Kāvēri-banks-fame who ruled from Kāñcī. This later Telugu genealogy moreover knows all about the Trilōcana story, seems to make Karikāla a northern king and even introduces, like the Bhakti-rāja plates, a Bhōja as his contemporary. It may be doubted whether particulars drawn from two such records, so different from each other and dealing in palpable legends relating to a distant past may, in combination, be expected to furnish a basis for history to stand on. Again, though there is a clear break in the Telugu genealogy (183 of 1899) after Karikāla II, there is no such break after Daśavarman * in the sanskrit record (205 of 1899 ) which after mentioning Daśavarma's conquest of Pākrāṣṭra and his rule from Pottappi (verse 8) proceeds: nṛpasya tasya putrōbhū (tpānkaḥ) śaṅkara kiṅkaraḥ . . . . (v. 9) and again, ajāyata-tatō rājā satyassatyaparākramah . . . . (verse 10). It is a pity however, that a long gap in the inscription at this point makes it quite impossible to decide the number of generations between Mahimāna and Kāma Cōḍa who is known to have been ruling about Ś 1059 (A. D. 1137). But the point is that so far as the line of rulers called the ‘A’ line by Mr. Venkayya † in his account of the Telugu-Cōḍas is concerned, the break occurs between Karikāla and Mahimāna, and not after Mahimāna's son Daśavarman. And this should weigh as another serious objection to the genealogy of the Karikāla line as restored by Dr. N. V. Ramanayya from the Telugu-Cōḍa records.