Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.171

c7.171

the Ṣaṭsahasra country on the southern bank of the river Kṛṣṇaveṇṇā, obtained through the favour of the glorious Triṇayana Pallava.” And we also hear of a Trilōcana Kādamba about the same time * in the West. Karikāla himself is in some Kākatīya records a northern king coming down to the south on a hunting excursion, and setting up his camp at Kākatipura. † If we are to accept all the indications about Trilōcana’s greatness and the extent of his kingdom that we get from these records, he must have been a powerful emperor who at one time ruled practically the whole of the Deccan and held in his hand Kāñcī, Kāḷahasti, Banavāse and so on. We may as well try and trace the true story of the lives and achievements of the heroes of the Mahābhārata with the aid of the local legends of South India centering round our numerous Pañcapāṇḍava-malais, as accept this tale. Surely, the attempt to resuscitate legends so decisively rejected by the elder epigraphists like Fleet and Hultzsch is no forward step in the reconstruction of early South Indian History.