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probably corresponds to the 22nd May A.D. 1084. At the end of the inscription (1. 108) another date is given, viz. the seventeenth year of the reign.
TEKI PLATES OF RAJARAJA-CHODAGANGA.
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The above statements involve a few important changes in the pedigree and the chronology of the Eastern Châlukyas. As regards the former, the order of the sons of Kulôttunga I. in my Table of this dynasty' has to be altered; for the Têki plates inform us that the eldest son was not, as I thought, Vikrama-Chôda, Kulôttunga's successor on the Chôla throne, but Chôdaganga. As the Chellûr and Pithapuram plates (v. 19) state that Vira-Chôda had only two elder brothers, it is now clear that these were Chôḍaganga and Mummadi-Chôda, and that VikramaChôda was a younger brother of Vira-Chôda. Secondly, the dates at the end of the Chellûr and Pithapuram plates, viz. the twenty-first and twenty-third years of the reign, respectively, cannot be referred, as was done hitherto, to the reign of Vira-Chôda. For, taking the date at the end of the Têki plates in the same manner as the seventeenth year of Chôḍaganga, it would correspond to A.D. 1084 +16-17 1100-01, while the Chellûr plates would fall in A.D. 107820-21 = 1098-99, and Vira-Chôda would thus have issued an edict during the governorship of his brother Chôdaganga. The only way in which the dates of the three inscriptions can be reconciled is to refer them to the accession of Kulôttunga I. in A.D. 1070. They would then fall in A.D. 1088-87, 1090-91 and 1092-93. The two last dates would imply that Vira-Chôda administrated the Vêngî province a second time in succession of Chôḍaganga. That this was actually the case is explicitly stated in his Pithapuram plates. We are there told that Vira-Chôḍa was recalled by Kulôttunga I. (v. 25), but sent to Vêngi again in the fifth year (v. 26). The occasion when he was recalled was evidently the appointment of Chôdaganga in A.D. 1084, and "the fifth year" must mean the fifth year after Vira-Chôda's recall, i.e. A.D. 1088-89. This explanation is in perfect accordance with the fact that the Têki plates are dated A.D. 1086-87. The fact that two years earlier, viz. in the seventeenth year of Kulôttunga I. the Chellûr plates are silent regarding the intervening governorship of Chôḍaganga, and that the Pithapuram plates allude to it without mentioning his name, suggests that he had discredited himself with his father and had been on bad terms with his brother Vira-Chôḍa. The subjoined Table shows the relationship and the dates of the three successive governors of Vêngi.
Kulottunga-Chôḍa I.;
married Madhurântakî.
Rajaraja alias Rajaraja alias Mummadi-Choda; Chôdaganga; A.D. 1084 to 1088-89. A.D. 1077 to 1078.
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Vira-Choda;
A.D). 1078 to 1084 and 1088-89 to at least 1092-93.
Vikrama-Choda. Three other sons.
Chôdagangadéva (1. 80), surnamed Rajaraja (1. 78), bore the traditional titles Sarvalôkasraya, Vishnuvardhana, etc. (11. 76-78), and (like his younger brother Vira-Chôḍa) resided at Jananathanagari (1. 81), which Mr. Krishna Sastri proposes to identify with the modern Rajamahendri. He addresses the edict contained in this inscription to the inhabitants of the country between the Mannêru (river) and the Mahendra (mountain) (1. 83). These must have been the northern and southern boundaries of the Vengi province. The Mahêndra mountain is in the Ganjam district near the Mandasa Railway Station, and the Mannêru river passes Singarayakonda, now a Railway Station in the Kandukûr tâluka of the Nellore district. The king's edict does not, as usual, refer to a grant of land; it confers certain honorary privileges on the
South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. p. 82.
Above, Vcl. V. p. 71,
