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Jayasinha I. So thoroughly was the appellation Vallabha identified, for that period, with the Western Chalukyas of Badami, that we find Vallabharaja and Vallabha used as substitutes for their proper names to denote Pulakesin II. and Vikramaditya I. in one of the Pallava records. And, by the Rashtrakațas themselves, the appellation Vallabha was first used to denote the Western Chalukya king Kirtivarman II., as is shewn by the verse in the Sâmångad grant of A.D. 754, which tells us that Dantidurga acquired the sovereignty by conquering Vallabha. The appellation itself was promptly adopted by the Rashtrakūtas; and it became, in the same way, thoroughly identified with them. As we have seen above, the next record that enters into details, the Paithan grant of A.D. 794, styles Dantidarga Vallabharaja, and gives to Govinda II. the appellation Vallabhs. The Wapi grant of A.D. 807 gives the same appellation, Vallabha, to Krishna I. The Bagumrê grant, of doubtful authenticity, which purports to have been issued in A.D. 888, mentions & Vallabhansipa, or "king Vallabha," who must be either Amoghavarsha I. or Krishna II. The Mulgund inscription of A.D. 902-903 attaches Vallabha after the name of Krishna II. The Kapadwapaj grant of A.D. 909 or 910 speaks of (probably) Krishna II. as Vallabharaja. The Sangli grant of A.D. 933, the Dooli and Karhad grants of A.D. 940 and 959, and the Kardà grant of A.D. 972, apply the appellation "his majesty the king Vallabha" to Govinda IV., Krishna III., and Kakka II. And, from the Pråksit forms Ballaharaya and Ballaraya, the Arab travellers and geographers of the ninth and tenth centuries A.D. used the name Balhará to denote, generally, the Rashtrakūta kings of Malkhôų. The Kadaba grant,
1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 16, text line 2.- In the Eastern Chalukys records, sometimes Vallabhs is attached to the biruda Satyásraya which in them takes the place of the proper name of Palakesin II., and sometimes Vallebbêndra is used instead of it (nee, for instance, South Ind. Insors. Vol. I. PP. 41, 18). In that series, Vallabha is sometimes attached after the name of Jayasimha I., son of Kubja-Vishộuvardhana I. (see, both ways, the same references), but it is not found with soy subeoquent names.
Namely, in the Udayondiram grant of Pallavamalla-Nandivarman (South-Ind. Ingers. Vol. II, pp. 370, 371). This record says that the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I. frequently conquered Vallablardja at Pariyala, Ma..ima gala, Saramara, and other places, and that his grandson Param dávaravarman 1. defeated the army of Vallabbe in the battle of Peruvala-Nallar. The identities are established by the Karam Pallava grant, which tells us fid. Vol. I. p. 152 ff.) that it was Palækėsin (11.) whom Narasimhavarman I. conquered at Pariyala, eto., and gives thongh without mentioning the name of the place) a very vivid description of a great battle in which Parmes. Tavarman 1. inflicted a crushing defeat on the army of Vikramaditya (I.).
Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 114.
• Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 69, verte 23.---The Baroda grant of A.D. 866 or 867 ways that the feudatory prince Dhardvarsha-Nirupams-Dhruvarijs of Gujarat (the first of that name) put to fight the army of Vallabhs (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 188, verse 82), and that his son Akalavarsh Subbatunga quickly recovered his paternal territory that bad been attacked or invaded by the army of Vallabhs (versa 86), and that the second Dbárávarsha-NirupamaDhruvarkin quieted in one direction the army of the Gurjaras that horried up to encounter him, and in another direction the hostile Vallabba (verse 37). These allusions, I think (see Dyn. Kan. Dintrs. p. 408, notes 2, 4), -as also the statement in the Baroda grant of A.D. 834 or 835, that Suvarnavarsha Karkarkje, of the same branch of the family, vanquished some tributary Rashtruktas, who, after they had voluntarily promised obedience. dared to rebel with a powerful army, and that he speedily placed Amoghavarsha I. on his throne (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 201, verse 10), refer to some persistent attacks on the dynasty of Malkbed, in their northern provinces, by descendants of the Kakkaraja II., of the first Gujarat branch, for whom we have the date of A.D. 767. If BO, these passagen would show that the members of that line, also, were classed among the Vallabhre: to which there is no apparent objeotion. Or, perhaps, these passages containing Vallabus refer to some descendants of one or other of the Gajarkt branches of the Western Chalukya family.
The latter may be assumed from Vallarijs, which one doeument gives as a form of the name of the Anbild Chanlokya king Vallabhardja, son of Chamundurdja son of Malardjo I. (see Dr. Phandarkar's Report on Sanskrit Manuscripts for the year 1888-84, p. 10).--Au foseription of A.D. 866-67 at Sorstår, in tbe Gadag Aluka. gives one of the biruda, of Amögbevarsha I, in tbe form of Prithiviballava. Tbis perhaps gives us ballava, as another Palpit form of wallabha. But it is possible that the writer may bave formed to by mistake for bha. or that he may have carelessly used ballaca, 'n man who knows,' instead of ballala.
See Sir H. M. Elliot's History of India, edited by Prof. Dowson, Vol. I. pp. 3 to 40. In later times, the Arabs used the name Balbark to denote the Claulukya kings of Aphilwad (e.g. Al-Idrist, towards the end of the eleventh century A.D.; ibid. pp. 85, 86, 87); and, as we have seen in the preceding note (800 also Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. pp. 199, 200, 213), Vallabharajn occurs as the name of a king in that dynasty with the date of A.D. 1009-10.
