Note 2e: Chola Feudatories, the Kadavas

More powerful than all the above Chiefs were the Kadavas, whose growing might was hardly recognised in the days of Rajaraja II or even of Rajadhiraja II; in fact, even in the days of Kulottunga III, they were loyal feudatories of the Chola king and it was only in the disturbed days after the defeat of Kulottunga III at the hands of the growing Pandyan power, that the Kadava Chiefs saw visions of a revival of Pallava power in the south. They all but succeeded under the dynamic leadership of Kopperunjinga, whose ambitions were thwarted only by the growing rivalry between the Pandyas and the Hoysalas. Wc shall see more of this under Rajaraja III.