Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.4

c7.4

(b) No. 65. This is said to be a lament of Kaḷāttalaiyār uttered when a Cēra king, Peruñjēral Ādaṉ, wounded in the back in a fight with Karikāla, resolved to give up his life by starvation * after such an ignominious defeat. The text of the poem mentions the wound in the back of the dying king but gives no names. We learn, however, from the next verse and from *Ahanānūru* 55, that these events happened, exactly as they are given in *Puṟam* 65 and its colophon, at the battle of Veṇṇippaṟandalai.