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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Before considering the descendants of Kudyavarman II., it may be convenient to arrange in tabular form the names of those Eastern Châlukya kings who are mentioned in this inscription.
EASTERN CHALUKYAS.
Vimaladitya (vv. 16 to 18).
Rajaraja I. m. Ammangayamba
(vv. 19 and 20).
Kulottunga-Choda I. (vv. 21, 23, 27, 84 and 85).
Vira-Choda
(vv. 22, 23, 80 to 88). Ammangayamba, the wife of R&jargja I., is here called the daughter of B&jêndrs of the race of the Sun (Sarya-kula, v. 20). But we know from the Chellar plates of Vira-Choda! that the full name of her father was Rajendra-Chôds, i.e. the Chola king Parak@sarivarman, alias Rajendra-Chôļadēva 1.The Pühapuram inscription (v. 23) agrees with the Chellûr plates (v. 18) in stating that Kulottunga-Chôda I. bestowed the country of Vengi on his son Vira-chôda.
As stated above, Kudyavarman II. had been a vassal of the Eastern Chalukya king Vimaladitya. His great-grandson, Gonka I., occupied the same position during the reign of Vimaladitya's grandson, Kulottungs-Chôda I., under whose orders he is said to have ruled the.Andhra-mandala (v. 27), i.e. the Telugu country, or perhaps rather a portion of the latter.
The nephew of Gonka I., . Vedura II, is stated to have won a battle against an unnamed Påndya king under orders of Vira-Chôda, who conferred on him as & reward "one half of his throne" and the Sindhuyugmántara-desa, i.e. the country between the pair of rivers' (vv. 31 to 33). The two rivers intended are probably the Křishņš and the Godavari, and the country between them must have formed a portion of the country of Vêngi or Vêngi, which Vira-Choda held from his father Kulôttunga-Choda I. (vv. 23 and 30).
Immediately after we learn that Kulôttunga-Choda I. adopted as son the cousin of Vedura II. and son of Gonka I., named Chôds, and bestowed on him the country of Vengi, which contained Sixteen-thousand (villages) (14. 34 and 35). This change in the governor ship of Vengî can only have taken place between A.D. 1100, the latest available date of ViraChoda, and A.D. 1112, the year of the death of Kulottunga-Choda I.
Hereafter the inscription refers no more to the Eastern Chalukya kings. Choda's son Gonka II. is said to have placed a golden pinnacle on the temple of Bhimanátha (at Drikshârâma) and to have ruled over all kings between Kalahasti (in the North Arcot district) and the Mahendra mountain in the Gañjam district), 1.c. over the whole Telugu country (vy. 41 and 42)
The next king, Vira-Rajendra-Choda.(v. 44), Rajendra-Choda (v. 51), or (in Telugu) Velanânti-Kulottunga-Rajendra-Chodayaraja (1. 141 f.), is reported to have killed a certain
1 South Indian Inscription, Vol. I. No. 89, verse 7. * So Sorth-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II. p. 982. * Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 284..
• See sbore, Vol. III. p. 20, note 6.
