Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.172

c7.172

It is well known that not a single reference can be traced ‡ in the early literature of the Tamils to the achievement for which Karikāla is most extolled in later times—viz., the construction of the Kāvēri banks. Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Aiyangar seeks to get over this difficulty ¶ first by suggesting that ‘this work does not seem to have appealed to the imagination of contemporary poets as much as it did to that of men of a later age,’ and then by discovering an allusion to Karikāla’s