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Karikala-Chola of the solar race was one of the predecessors of Durjaya. The Kanchi epigraph quoted above, which also traces the Kakatiyas, as the Chabróla and the Mkhal inscriptions do, to the Sun, Manu, Ikshvaku, and other mythical kings of the Raghu family, does not give the names of either Karikâla-Chôļa or of Durjaya. The appearance of these two names in the Kakatiya genealogy is at present difficult to explain satisfactorily. But two facts which may be of some use in this connection have to be registered before passing on to the historical portion of the genealogy. As regards the mention of the mythical king Karikála-Chola as an ancestor of the Kakatiyas, attention may be drawn to the fact that the Telugu-Chodas who invariably claim connection with this mythical Chôļa king, became feudatories of the Kakatiyas in the time of Ganapati. With regard to Durjaya, the name occars among the ancestors of two of the contemporary local families of the Teluga country. The first historical ar.cestor of the Kakatiya family was Tribhuvanamalla-Beta. He appears to have been a powerful chief who held sway over some portions of the Andhra country before he became a feudatory of the Western Chalukyas and the governor of the Sabbi one thousand district. The surname Tribhuvanamalla which occurs here as well as in the Kanchi and Anmakonda inscriptions, was probably borrowed from his overlord Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI.
Beta's son and successor was Prôla, Prôlerâja, Prodaraja or Polalarasa, whose surname Jagatik esarin is known to us from the Kanchi inscription of his grandson Ganapati. The importance of the subjoined epigraph consists in its being the earliest Kakatiya record and the only one of Prôla found so far. Like his father Bêta, Próla appears to have continued as a fendatory of Vikramaditya VI.3 The Anmakonda inscription of his sont Radra and the Ganapêśvaram record of his grandson Gapapati, mention in detail the military exploits of Prôla. These have been fully discussed by Dr. Fleet and Professor Haltzsch. One of the opponents of Prola was Tailapadêva called "the crest-jewel of the Chalukyas" in the Anmakondn inscription. Dr. Fleet has identified him with the Western Chålukya king Taila III. (A.D. 1150-51 to 1162-63). This implies a pretty long reign for Prôla from at least the Chalukya-Vikrama year 42 (= A.D. 1117), the date of the present record, to at least A.D. 1150-51, the first year of Taila III., unless we suppose that Prola fought with Taila while the latter was yet a prince. That Rudra, son of Próla, successfully averted a usurpation of the Châļukya throne after the death of Taila III., by a certain Bhima
1 See Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1899-1900, p. 18, Genealogical Table of the Chodas of the Telugu country, retarke under Opilisiddhi II and paragraph 53.
The Koodapadmati chief Buddharkja and the mahamandal /vara Nambaya-two petty chieftains of the Telugu country on the southern side of the Krishna river - bore the surname the lion of the mountain-the Darjaya family' (above, Vol. VI. p. 268 and footnote 6, ani p. 269). We know from Telugu records that a family of chiefs known by the name Chági was contemporaneous with the Kondapadinatis. Nos. 253 and 271 of the Epigraphical collection for 1897 give two or three nsines in the ancestry of this family and call it the Durjaya-kula born from the feet of Vishnu. No. 255 of the same collection, which is dated in Suka-Sarnvat 1148 and which belongs to the time of Chagi Ganapaya- Maharaja who was probably a member of this Chagi Durjaya-kula, quotes A verse at the beginning in praise of the king which is almost identical with verso 7 of the Yenamadala inscription describing the Kakatiya king Ganapati (above, Vol. IIL p. 97 f., text II. 31 to 3). Unfortunately the inscription is seriously damaged; otherwise, it might, perhaps, have been possible to prove that the local chiefs of the Chági Durjay-kili werber wing from the royal Kakatiya family of Warangal not only names, but sutetimes even the description of the members of its family.
This may be inferred from the use of the Chalukya-'ikrama era in the date portion of the subjoined record.
The Pakhal inscription referred to above, states that Rudra was born in the family of Prole, which is quite against the testimony of other Kakatiya inscriptions.
5 Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 10 and above, Vol. III. p. 83.
# The second alternative seems to be the more probable one, for Prola is actually stated to have captured Tail in battle and to have T-la-ed him out of loyalty and love' (haktyd wurdigit). This may imply the existence of a sovereign on the Chalukya throne different from Taila. Chalukya.childinai semns to bave been a title of Western Chaluky prinees who, before succeeding to the throne, generally served as governors of provitices.
