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THE MANDALI RULERS
Mahāmandalesvara BhujabalaGanga Permmādi Barmmadeva-1 (1045-65)
hujabala
Ganga Permmādideva-l, who had
Barmmadeva as his first name, became the earliest ruler to set up his home in the Mandalināļu in the mid eleventh century, after the other centres of Mānyakheta, Talavanapura, Kuvalālapura and Mānyapura had ceased to be the hub of the early Ganga imperial might. Barmmadeva was a mahāmandalesvara during the reign of the Cālukya emperor Trailokyamalla Āhavamalla Someśvara-I (1042-68). Barmmadeva, who had the other names of Barmmabhūpāla, Bhujabala Ganga Pemmāạideva and the title GangaraBhima, was the son of Kali Gangadeva, younger brother of Rakkasa Ganga, who was a lay disciple of the preceptor Anantavirya Siddhāntadeva; Brammadeva was himself a laic of the monk Prabhācandra-Siddhāntadeva.
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