Arun Prakash

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Absolute Dating of Karikāla Chola and Trilochana Pallava

According to Tamil tradition, the Early Chola ruler Karikāla Chola undertook the construction and strengthening of the embankments of the Kāverī River and completed the celebrated Kallanai (Grand Anicut) at the age of 53. The Chola Maṇḍala Śatakam further preserves a chronological datum, stating that Karikāla constructed the Kallanai in year 990.

Independent chronological evidence concerning Karikāla’s contemporary, Trilochana Pallava, also known as Trinetra Pallava or Trinayana Pallava, is preserved in inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and in the Mackenzie manuscripts. These records associate Trilochana Pallava with a grant of Upputuru (Bapatla, Guntur region) in Kali year 2000.

If the epoch of the Kali Yuga is reckoned from 3176 BCE, according to the Māgha Śuklādi calendar, Kali year 2000 corresponds to 1176 BCE. Trilochana Pallava’s Upputuru grant may therefore be dated to 1176 BCE.

The chronological indication of year 990 preserved in the Chola Maṇḍala Śatakam can similarly be interpreted within the second millennial cycle beginning in 2176 BCE. On this reckoning, year 990 corresponds to 1186 BCE. Since Tamil tradition states that Karikāla was 53 years old when he completed the Kallanai, his birth may be placed around 1239 BCE.

This reconstruction also provides a chronological framework for the traditional conflict between Karikāla and Trilochana Pallava. Karikāla’s victory over Trilochana must have preceded the completion of the Kallanai in 1186 BCE, while Trilochana continued to exercise authority sufficiently in Andhra Pradesh thereafter to issue the Upputuru grant in 1176 BCE. The tradition concerning Vijayāditya, regarded as the progenitor of the Chalukya dynasty, may also be placed within this framework. Vijayāditya is said to have migrated from Ayodhyā to the Veṅgī region in inscriptions and to have been killed in battle with Trilochana Pallava, an event that may accordingly be placed around 1170 BCE.

On the basis of these mutually connected chronological traditions, the proposed sequence may be reconstructed as follows:

1. 1239 BCE — Birth of Karikāla Chola.
2. 1234 BCE — Karikāla ascends the Chola throne at the age of five.
3. 1224 BCE — At the age of fifteen, Karikāla wins the celebrated Battle of Veṇṇi.
4. Before 1186 BCE — Karikāla defeats Trilochana Pallava.
5. 1186 BCE — At the age of fifty-three, Karikāla completes the Kallanai and the embankments of the Kāverī; this corresponds to year 990 recorded in the Chola Maṇḍala Śatakam.
6. 1176 BCE — Trilochana Pallava makes the Upputuru grant, corresponding to Kali year 2000.
7. c. 1170 BCE — Vijayāditya, the traditional progenitor of the Chalukyas, arrives from Ayodhyā in the Veṅgī region and is killed in a conflict with Trilochana Pallava.
8. 1156 BCE — Karikāla dies at Tañjāvūr at the age of eighty-three.

Thus, the chronological notices preserved independently in Tamil literary tradition, Andhra inscriptions, and the Mackenzie manuscripts appear, under this calendrical interpretation, to converge upon a coherent sequence placing Karikāla Chola and Trilochana Pallava in the thirteenth–twelfth centuries BCE.

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