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TANDIVADA GRANT OF PRITHIVI-MAHARAJA : 46TH YEAR.
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family ruled for some time after A.D. 619, the date of the Ganjānı plates, and was subsequently defeated by Pulikēsin II or Kubja-Vishņu. As we have shown above that the date of the Pulombūru grant would fall in A.D. 621, we may conclude that the Chāļukya conquest of the Vishnukundins was accomplished between A.D. 621 and A.D. 631.
With the facts set forth above, the genealogy of the family with known regnal years and approximate dates for a few kings is given below for easy reference:
Mādhavavarman I (circa 500 A.D.).
Vikramēndra I.
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Dēvavarman.
Indrabhattāraka (535 A.D.) (year 27).
Madhavavarman II (year 47). Vikramēndra II (year 10).
Vikramáśraya Gõvindavarman. Mādhavavarman III Janāśraya-Mahārāja (A.D. 621) (years 37, 48).
Prince Mañchannabhattāraka. The name of Vikramendra, the father of Prithivi-Mahārāja of the present record may perhaps suggest some relationship with the Vishņukuņdins among whom that name is found twice. It is not impossible that Prithivi-Mahārāja's father Vikramēndra was a subordinate of Vikramēndravarman who was the grandfather of Madhavavarman, the donor of the Pulombūru grant. This surmise finds support from the fact that Pishtapura, the capital of Prithivi-Mahārāja, was situated within the limits of the Vishộukuņdin dominions which comprised the country to the south of Kalinga up to the present Guntur district which was the northern limit of the
Dr. Holteach's arrangement of the genealogy above, Vol. XVII, pp. 334 and 337) comes into conflict with the pedigree given in the present record. According to him, Govindavarman's father would be Madhavavarman, whereas his name is given as Vikramahendra in the Pulombūru grant. A recent writer on the subject (Ind. Hist. Quart., Vol. IX, pp. 275 f.) thinks that Madhava III of the Palombūru grant is identical with Madhava I as both Are stated to have performed eleven Aframedha and one thousand Agnishtöma sacrifices. He holds that the family rove to political power in A.D. 500 under Vikramahēndrs, grandfather of Madhava and continued to rule till the 8th century A.D. when it was completely overthrown by the Chalukyas. This view is not tenable. For, he has not taken into account the palæographio evidence of the charters while constructing the history of the family. According to him, Ipûr plates (set I) and the Palohbūru grant would be earlier than the Ipür plates (set II) whose script has been declared by Dr. Hultzsch to be more archaic than that of the other charters of the family (see also Madras Epigraphical Report 1913-14, pp. 8 and 102). Further, he has not considered the important synchronism with the Mahakosala king Tivaradēva in the time of Madhava (III) and the references contained in the Janäsrayi Chhandovichiti mentioned above. And we find from the records of Palikesin II, Kubja-Vishņuvarddhana, Jayasimha I., Tyagadhënu Indravarman and his successors that portions of the Vizaga patam, Godavari, Kistna and Guntur Districts, which comprised the Vishņukundin territory, were held by the Chalukyas since the first quarter of the 7th century A.D. and it is impossible that the Vishnukundins could have ruled as independent kings in that region after A.D. 631 when, according to the Kopparam and the Timmäpuram plates, the Eastern Chalukys rule had been fully established. [See note l on p. 93.-Ed.]
