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TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH
On palaeographical grounds, the inscription may be assigned to the same period as the foregoing inscription H, i.e., the beginning of the 8th century A.D. It may also be noted that perhaps the same queen Chōlamahārājuladevul is mentioned in both considering that the records come from places within 15 miles of each other. If so the king of the two records may be the same, Vikramaditya Chōla II. The queen's name is given in this record as Mamkhi (Mañchi) porriyāru and she seems to be ruling, residing at Ujjayini, a place which may be identified with Ujjini in the Kudligi taluk, Bellary district, about 100 miles west-south-west of Erigal (Niḍugal).
As the inscription is highly damaged, the names of some persons mentioned in it are lost. An Erigallu-Mutturaju is referred to and he may have been a prince of the family holding the official dignity of Mutturaju. It is not unlikely that he was the son of the king and queen of the record, but his identity with any of the known sons of Vikramaditya cannot be established at present. As can be gathered from the Malēpāḍu stone inscription of Satyaditya and the foregoing Chilamakuru inscription of Vikramaditya II (ins. H), Vikramaditya II had evidently two sons, Uttamaditya and Satyaditya; it may be suggested that the Erigallu-Mutturaju of the present inscription may have been one of these, probably the younger, being only a Mutturaju and not a Yuvaraja. As Uttamaditya is seen to be ruling from Chilamakuru in company with Chōlamahādēvi (his mother) during the reign of his father Vikramaditya as recorded in the Chilamakuru inscription (H above) it may be inferred that he was the Yuvaraja (although referred to by the general epithet of Samantaka in the record) and hence, the elder of the two brothers; Uttamaditya succeeded to the throne as he has left an inscription (J, the Veludurti inscription below) in which he bears kingly titles and is described as ruling the earth.
1-3 lines lost. 4. r[ā]ju..
5 nḍu ēļa Int[e]
6 ddivāḍi Eriga
7 llu-Mutt [u] rāju
8 ēļa Kangalūnṛu ē
9 la Chōlamaha
10 rajula tēvul Ma
11 khi (nchi ?)[po]rri
12 yāru [u]ndē
13 lu Ujjayi
14 ni ichchi [na*] pannavi 15.ga [m]ji[pā]ra mā16.diyäriki tēni
17 [niki.. nrugo
18 [dap.. Iva]
1
2 kalunje
3 [t]tēni lachchuva
4 [di] valvar-acha[ndra]
5 dirru bāraṇā
6 si věvura vadhi[*]
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