MANUAL OF THE NtLAGIKI DISTRICT. 2G3 



they encountered the Kiirumbas, who occupied the districts CHAP. XT. 

 below the ghats westwards of the shore-line from Pulicat to early 

 Cnddalore. The subduer of these warlike clans was Adonddi, History. 

 the illegitimate son of Kulattungi Chola. This conquest probably 

 occurred in the eleventh century. The advance along the eastern 

 coast may have been the result of their retirement from South 

 Mysore, if we accept the latter half of the eleventh century as the 

 period in which Adonddi's conquest took place, for the dominion 

 of the Cholas does not appear to have lasted in South Mysore 

 for more than one hundred and fifty years after the taking of 

 Talked in A.D. 894. The Chola conquests in Klirumbanad seem 

 to have been preceded by an alliance of the royal house with the 

 eastern Chalukyas. The progress of the power of the Hoysala 

 Belldla dynasty in South Mysore was probably the cause of the 

 subversion of the Chola dominion in that country. The Chola 

 monarch whose power appears to have been most extended was 

 Hari-vari, who reigned at the beginning of the eleventh century. 

 After conquering Madura, the writer of the Kongu-desa Rajakal 

 relates that — 



" Amarbhujangan, the general, sot out with four kinds of forces 

 towards the west of the mountain named Saiya, and thence proceed- 

 ing to fight against the Kerala-desa, he heard that its king was 

 performing the Chatur-balaganavi and other ceremonies, in consequence 

 of which he became greatly incensed and conquered (took) Kotur^ 

 Incira-giri, Nilagiri-durga, and other places ; and as the entire strength 

 of the king failed him, he embarked on boardship and fled into an 

 island in the midst of the sea. Subsequently this general of the 

 Chola raja, according to the permission of his master, collected and 

 deposited all the plunder of riches acquired in this invasion in the 

 /Saiva temple on the top of the ghaut, and on the extreme west he 

 fixed a conquest-pillar ^ with a flag, to denote his victory to that 

 point; and he thus acquired great fame in the world." 



Here a gap occurs in the manuscript. It proceeds to state : — 



" Then the Kongu-desa and Karnatica-desa being subject to him, 

 he, the Maharaja Chola raya, gave the name of Raja-raja-puram to the 

 town of Keriur, in the Talicad district in the northern part of 

 Kongu-desa, and gave it to the merchants (Vaisyar) of Dalavaii*a- 

 puram." 



Mr. Taylor remarks that the king referred to in the latter 

 quotation is probably not Hari-vari but Kulattungi Chola, the 

 father of Adonddi, the conqueror of the Kurumbas. During the 

 twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Ch61a race appears to have 

 been pushed back by the Hoysala Bellala kings and the vigorous 

 Chalukyas and Kalachuryas. The Tamils, however, with the 



' Jaya-stambha. 



