Studies in Cola History and Administration c7.99

c7.99

this assumption. What is the relation between Neḍum-Śēral-Ādan who fell in the same field as Peruṇarkkiḷḷi and Peruṇjēral Ādan the opponent of Karikāla himself at Veṇṇi? How long did the latter rule, if at all, and what is the interval between the battle in which Karikāla’s grandfather fell and that of Veṇṇi? Again what is the relation between Peruṇjēral Ādan and Śēṅguṭṭuvaṇ? Lastly, how are we to account for the fact that the Śilappadikāram which purports to be written in the reign of Śēṅguṭṭuvaṇ mentions the events of the reign of Karikāla as having taken place in some remote past? For it is impossible, in the face of the statements in the Śilappadikāram about Karikāla’s reign analysed under IV above, to accept Dr. S. K. Aiyangar’s plea that Karikāla was ruling in Puhār and was an eyewitness to the early stages in the romance of Kōvalan and Kaṇṇagi.∗ The data from the Śilappadikāram and the poems of Kaḷāttalaiyār on the whole seem to favour the view that Peruṇarkkiḷḷi came later than Karikāla rather than before him