This understanding of the political conditions of the Sangam age may not be closed without the mention of two other Chola rulers, both opponents of the Cheras in war. One was Ilanjetceni of Neyda- langanal who captured two fortresses from the Ch- eras known by the names of Seruppali and Pamalur. Another was Senganan, the Chola monarch famed in legend for his devotion to Shiva, ﬁgures as the victor in the battle of Por against the Chera Kanaik- kal Irumporai. The Chera was taken prisoner, asked for drinking water when he was in prison, got it rather late, and then, without drinking it, confessed the shame of his position in a song. Subsequently, Poyagaiyar, a friend of the Chera monarch, is said to have secured his release from the Chola prisons by celebrating the victory of Senganan in a poem of forty stanzas the Kalavali. According to this poem, the battle was fought at Kalumalam, near Karuvur, the Chera capital. Senganan became the subject of many pious legends in later times. It is possible that this monarch, who, according to Tirumangai, built 70 ﬁne temples of Shiva, lived somewhat later, say in the fourth or ﬁfth century A.D.