Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.32

c7.32

(c) Verse No. 239. The text has simply: "The Coḷa's son who escaped with his life from a fire got the aid in later life of a man named Piḍarttalai, and held the sceptre with success." The gloss of an anonymous commentator on this verse runs: "Even Karikāla who in his youth, though consigned to flames by his enemies, managed to escape with his life, obtained the aid of his (maternal) uncle, Irumbiḍarttalaiyār by name,* and, later in his life, attained the monarchy which was his by right and ruled as a just king."