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GANAPESVARAM INSCRIPTION OF GANAPATI.
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Mantena-Gunda, Tailapadeva, and Govinda-Dandêsa, and re-instated Chôdôdaya (v. 6). The same four contemporaries of Prôla are referred to in the Apmakonda inscription, whero, however, Mantena-Gunda is called Gunda, the lord of the city of Mantrakața. Tailapadêva has been already identified by Dr. Fleet with the Western Chalakya king Taila III. Chododaya is mentioned four times in the Anmakonda inscription. Line 32 f. of that inscription reads as follows:-- "Then he (Prôla), who had easily plundered his (Udaya's) dominions in warfare, gave the kingdom (back) to king Udaya." Verse 6 of the Ganapêśvaram inscription shows that Udaya is here meant for Chódôdaya. In lines 65 to 71 of the Anmakonda inscription, we are told that king Chôdôdaya died out of fear of Prola's successor, Rudra. According to line 104 f. Rudra barnt the city of Chododaya. In line 107, Rudra is called "the only resort of Padmå (or Lakshmi) who arose from the womb of the glittering milkocean of the race of Kandûrôdaya-Choda." Udaya-Choda is evidently & transposed, but synonymous form of Chôdôdaya. Further, I suspect that Padma has to be taken as the actual name of Chôļodaya's daughter, whom Rudra married for political reasons, though he caused the death of her father and destroyed his city. Finally, Kandûrs appears to have been the name of Chôdôdaya's capital. According to Dr. Oppert "there are in the Nizam's territory and the neighbouring districts many places called Kandůru." But I am not in a position to say which of these is to be identified with Kandura.
By his wife Muppaladevi, or, as she is called in the Anmakonda inscription, Muppamadevi, Prola had two sons, Rudra and Mahadeva (v. 7). Rudra succeeded his father on the throne (v. 8). He is said to have settled the inhabitants of towns which he had destroyed, at Orungallu (Worangal) and to have established on the sites of those towns new colonies, in which he built temples of Rudrêśvara (v. 9). Rudra was succeeded by his brother) Mahadeva (v. 11), whose son by Bayyâmbika was Ganapati (v. 12).
Verses 15 to 43 describe the descent of one of Ganapati's officers, the general Jaya or Jâyana. The first person named is Bhima (I.) of the race of Ayya (v. 16), who resided at Kroyyûru) in the country of Velanânduo (v. 17). His three sons by Rachyâmbikâ, Jilla, Nåråyaņa (I.), and Saraya, were in the service of king Chôļi (v. 18). Jilla defeated a certain Kannâradêve and received in acknowledgment of this deed the dignity of general from the king (v. 19). At the command of king Chôại, the second brother, Nåråyana (I.), fortified Dvipa, i.e. Talagada-Divi, which is fabled to have been created by the god Kuvera (v. 20 f.). He also constructed tanks and temples at Dvips and at Vadlakurru (vv. 23-25). He received from king Chôdi the lordship over Dvipa and the Gonçu villages, and the title of general (v. 26 f.). The four sons of Narayana (I.) by Náramba (I.) were Chôdi, Bhima (II.), Pinna-Chôdi, and Bramma (v. 28). They served in the army of "the king who was the lord of the Chôda country" (v. 30). This king appears to be identical with, or a successor of, the previously mentioned king Chôdi (vv. 18, 20, 27). He may be also connected with Chôdôdaye, to whom both the Anmakonda and the Ganapêśvaram inscriptions refer as a contemporary of the two Kakatiya kings Prôla and Rudra, and with Kulôttunga-Chôde-Gonks of Velanându. The wife of Pinna-Choại, the third of the four brothers, was Damamba (v. 31). They had two daughters, N&râmbe (II.) and Pêramâmbâ, and three sons, Pțithva, Jaya or Jayana, and
! Madras Journal of Literature and Science for the year 1881, p. 217.
1 The length of the first vowel is guaranteed by the metre. Other forms are Orangalla and Orugallu ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 197, note 3.
* This place can hardly be identical with the distant Krosuru, which is the head-quarters of a taluks of the Kistna district
This territorial term forms part of Velanånti Kulottunga-Choda-Gonks, the name of a chief whose inscriptions range between Saksa-Samvat 1055 and 1078; see my Annual Report for 1892-93, p. 8.
This person and his younger brother Pinna-Chôdi were evidently called after king Chodi. . See note 4
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