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EIGHT INSCRIPTIONS OF KADAVARAYA CHIEFS
Inscription No. I indicates that Vēnāvudaiyan vanquished the Kākatiyas in their own dominion, implying that he had invaded their territory. The Kakatiya contemporary of Kõpperuñjinga was Ganapati, who in 12491 was in possession of Kanchi. In his endeavour to obtain the place, he must have found himself in conflict with the Kadava Peruñjinga. In about A. D. 1258, Rudrāmba, the only daughter of Ganapati, became the queen of the Kakatiya dominion, as there was no male heir to the throne. It was just before A. D. 1262, the date of the Dräkshärama epigraph, probably in A. D. 1260-1, that the forces of Peruñjinga, probably under the command of his valiant son Vēnāvudaiyan, invaded the territory of the Telugus. His Dräkshārāma and Tri. purantakan inscriptions are evidences of the reality of the conquests of the Pallava in the north.
Here may be considered the attempts of the Pandya king. Jaţiivarman Sundara-Pandya is described in his inscriptions in the thunderbolt to the mountain, viz. the Chola race (Rajāraja IIT), the dispeller of the Karnata king (ie., Vira-Somēbvara), the fever to the elephant Kathaka king, the jungle fire to the forest Gandagöpāla, the lion to the deer Ganapati (i.e., the Kakatiya king), who was the lord of Kanchi. It is also on record that Jaţăvaraman Sundara-Pandya I laid siege to Senda mangalm, fought many a fierce battle which made the Pallava tremble, and finally took the country together with immense wealth and numberless elephants and horses and bestowed it on Poruñjinga. One could casily see that the detailing of the achievements in the Tiruvannamalai record (Inscription No. I) and in the records of Sundaru-Pandya has much in common. It might be said that the achievements which Sundara-Pandya claims over the Kathukit, Ganapati and others of the north, must have been effected by the combined forces. of Sundara-Pandya and Pallava Perusjinga, for these two distinguished contemporaries claim almost the same conquests.
Perunjiga's relationship with the Pandya king scents to have been one of continued friendship. He seems to have occupied a subordinate position under the Pandya. There are records which declare that the Pallava king had sent tributes to the Pandya overlord' and that the latter had received them. His Pandya overlords were Jatavarman Sundara Pandya I (A. D. 1251 - 72)* and his coregent Jatavarman Vira-Pandya (A. D. 1254-75). In the keenly contested battle at. Sendamangalam, the Pallava Peruñjingat, who trembled at the fierceness of the fight, was bestowed, in the end of the battle, the conquered kingdom. Jațāvarman Vira-Pandya claims to have perforined the anointment of heroes at Perumbarrappuliyūr i.e., Chidambaram) and this place was mostly under Kopperunjinga. The performance of the anointment of heroes at that place by the Pandya may indicate the subordination of the Kadava.
There are three inscriptions at Tiruvannamalai dated in the regnal years 30, 31 and 32 of Rajurajat III, corresponding to A.D. 1246, 1247 and 1248. In the same place there are found inscriptions dated in Körperuñjinga's reign from the 2nd year onwards which also correspond to A.D. 1246, 1247, 1248, 1250, etc.? So then it happens that that place was under the rule of both Rājarāja Ill and Peruñjinga from A.D. 1246. And by the evidence of the available inscriptions it is clear that while the Chöļa hold over the place was lost in about A.D. 1248, Peruñjinga continued to possess it. Another fact to be noted is that the initial year of Rajendra-Chõļa III, the son of Rūjaraja III, was A.D. 1246-7. All the available pieces of evidence seem to suggest that Räjarūja III and Peruñjinga were on amicable terms from A. D. 1243.
1 No. of 26 1890. * See K. V. S. Aiyer, Historical Sketches of Ancient Dekhan, p. 165 f. • No. 192 of 1914 and Pudukotta Inscriptions, No. 370. * The date of his accession is fixed to have been between April 20 and 28, A.D. 1251 (abovo, Vol. IX, p. 227). * See K. V. S. Aiyer, op. cit. p. 169. • Nos. 503, 510, and 511 of 1902. Nos. 460, 465, 500, and 513 of 1902.
