Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.94

c7.94

Of Karikāla’s children we have little definite knowledge. Mr. Kanakasabhai was clearly wrong in making Naṟcōṇai (the mother of Śeṅguṭṭuvaṉ) the daughter of Karikāla.* Paṇḍit M. Rāghava Aiyaṅgar holds † that both Uṟaiyūr and Puhār were under Karikāla and that after his death, his sons Maṇakkilli and Vēr-pahṟaḍakkai Peru-viṟar-kiḷḷi became rulers respectively of Uṟaiyūr and Puhār. But as he himself admits, there does not appear to be any direct evidence either for the relationship suggested, or for the division of the kingdom.