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No. 25.)
KALOCHUMBARRU GRANT OF AMMA II.
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Differing from all the other records, this one says, in line 30 f., that Vikramaditya II. reigned for nine months. Of the other records, some say eleven months, and some way one year.!
If taken as it actually stands in line 31 f., in prose, this record would represent Yuddhamalla II. as Talapa-raj-ågrajajanmar, "born from an elder brother of king Talapa." This statement, however, is not borne out by the other records which mention the parentage of Yuddhamalla II. There is, indeed, one record, the Diggubarru grant of the period A.D. 934 to 945, which, in verse, speaks of him as Malla, and describes him as Taha-jy&shtha-suta ;' and this expression, while ordinarily and most naturally meaning "eldest son of Taha," might also be rendered as meaning "son of an elder brother of Täha." The other records, however, are more explicit ; and, it may be added, they all speak of him by his full name of Yuddhamalla. The Padamkalûru grant, of the period A.D. 945 to 970, describes him, in verse, as Talapa-rajasya súnu, "son of king Tâlapa." The Masulipatam plates, of the same period, describe him, in prose, as Tal-adhipa-sinu, "son of the lord Tála." The 'Yelivarru' plates, also of the same period, describe him, in prose, as Talapa-rajasya suta, "son of king Tålapa." And the Korumelli plates, of the period A.D. 1022 to 1063, the Chellur plates of A.D. 1090-91, and the Pithapuram plates two years later in date, describe him, in prose, as tat-Tadapa-rajaruta, "son of that same king Tadapa." And, in view of those statements, we may safely decide that there is a mistake of some kind in the present record; the explanation perhaps is that the composer used the word agrajanman,' first-born,' in the sense, whether correctly or not, of eldest son,' instead of in its usual meaning of elder brother, and that either he, or the writer of the record, carelessly repeated the ja and so produced the reading which is actually presented but is certainly wrong.
In connection with Chalukya-Bhima II. (A.D. 934 to 945), whom it calls in line 33-34 simply Bhima, and in line 41 Raja-Bhima, this record mentions, in line 35 ff., the following enemies overthrown by him, namely, Rajamayya, Dhalaga, Tâtabikki, Bijja, Ayyapa, Govinda, a ruler of the Chose named Lovabikki, and Yuddhamalla. Yuddhamalla is undoubtedly the Eastern Chalukya king Yuddhamalla II., the immediate predecessor of Chalukya-Bhima II. ; & specific mention of his overthrow and expulsion by Bhima IL is made in the Padamkalûru grant of the period A.D. 945 to 970. Gôvinda is the Rashtrakūta king Govinda IV., for whom we have dates ranging from A.D. 918 to 933-34. Ayyapa is very possibly the Ayyapadeva, doubt. less a Nolamba prince of the No!ambavadi territory in Mysore, to whom the Western Ganga prince Ereyappa lent a force for the purpose of fighting against a certain Viramahendra ; and, if so, it probably follows that Vtramahôndra was another biruda of Chalukya-Bhima II., or, rather, was a variant of his biruda Gandamahendra. Bijja seems to be identical with the Dantivarman, also Damed Bijja, who is mentioned in the sparions Sudi plates, apparently in connection with Banavåsi, as one of the foes against whom, it says, the Western Ganga prince Bütuga II. (A.D. 940 and 953) fought and prevailed. And R&jamayya is perhaps the Rajavarman who, also, is mentioned in that record, but without any indication as to where his territory lay. Lôvabikki, the ruler of the Cholas, is not as yet known from any other sources. To Dhalaga and Tatabikki reference is made in the Kolavennu plates of Chalukya-Bhima II. himself, in a verse which,
See Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 269. And, for the statement of eleven months, add now the Pithapurain plates see Vol. V. above, p. 76, line 28. ? Ind. ant. Vol. XIII. p. 214, line 30 1.
Id. Vol. VIl. p. 16, line 19. • Vol. V. above, p. 140, line 15 f.
5 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 92, line 21. 6 See, respectively, lsd. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 62, line 45; id. Vol. XIX. p. 429, line 42, and above. p. 76, line 28.-In line 17 of the Chelldr plates of A.D. 1143 (Ind. Lut. Vol. XIV. p. 56; for the correct date of this record, now given, see note l on page 180 above), the composer or writer used only the expressiou fatny. omitting Tadapa-rdja; with the result that that record practically represents Yuddhamalla II. As wwuf Vikramaditya II. Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 18. See Vol. VI. above, p. 47.
Seu Vol. III above. p. 163.
