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TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH
held by the Telugu Chōla, Vijayaditya indicates that after he became king, he threw off his allegiance to the Chalukyas and assumed independence. In the wake of his assumption of independence, the Bana subordinates of the Chalukyas in this region were subdued, and they passed under his suzerainty from that of the Chalukyas as indicated by the mention of the Bāņa in a subordinate capacity in the record under review.
It would be of interest to trace here the activities of the Banas during the period prior to their subjugation by the Telugu Chōla Vijayaditya of the present record. Several inscriptions of Chalukya Vijayaditya found in the locality around the place where the present record has been discovered, mention a number of Bana chiefs ruling over this region. One of these dated in his 23rd year (A.D. 719) found at Kondupalli, Gooty taluk, Anantapur District' mentions Vikramaditya Bali Indra Baṇarāja, son of Balikulatilaka Narasimha Baṇādhiraja, as ruling over Turumaravishaya. At Betapalli in the same taluk, an undated record of the same Chalukya king is found mentioning an unnamed Bana as ruling the same vishayas while the Bana's uncle, Vikramaditya, . was ruling Ayiradi. Another record of Vijayaditya (date lost) is found at Danavulapadu in which a chief, Bhupiditya, finds mention. This Bhupaditya may be identified with Bhujan gadi Bhupaditya of the Perbana family, who figures as the donor in the Arkaṭavemula inscription. of Sri-Vallabha, which has been assigned to Vikramaditya I on the ground that the title Srivallabha was an epithet of Vikramaditya I assumed by him after his conquest of the Pallavas'. another record The same Baņa, Bhupaditya, is mentioned as ruling Renanḍu in of Vijayaditya at Rajolu, Sirvel taluk, Kurnool District, which has been noticed and copied by the Assistants of Col. Mackenzie." The Baṇa subordinates of the Chalukyas under Vijayaditya seem to have extended their rule from Turumara-vishaya, north of the river Pennar, to the south of the river, into Renandu. They appear to have been in occupation of Chilamakuru (Chirumburu of the inscription) in the Kamalapuram taluk, Cuddapah District, as evidenced-by an inscription of an unnamed son of Vikramaditya Perbaṇādhiraja at the place. As the Telugu Cholas up to the time of Satyaditya were ruling over Renandu, the Bana occupation of their territory must have taken place during or subsequent to his rule. The conquest of their own dominions (i.e., Rēnāṇḍu) as also those of the Banas by the Telugu Chōlas under Prithvivallabha Vijayaditya Chola seems to be indicated by the record under review. The Perbana family to which some of these Banas of the Ceded Districts are stated to belong, may have, as their family name indicates, belonged to the Brihad-Bana line, the foes of Kadamba Mayurasarman, mentioned in the Talagunda inscription of Kakusthavarman."
Regarding the other persons mentioned in the inscription and their identification, Pallavadhiraja may probably be identified with Nandivarman Pallavamalla (acc. c. 725 A.D.) as the date assigned for this inscription falls during the period of his rule. The mention of the Pallava in terms of family relationship to the mother of the Telugu Chōla king would indicate that friendly relations that had subsisted between the two dynasties earlier in the time of Mahendra vikrama Chōlamahārāja, were again established. This was evidently made possible by the assumption of independence as his title Prithvivallabha indicates-by Vijayaditya-Chola from the yoke of the
1 No. 359 of 1920 of the Mad. Ep. Coll.
2 No. 333 of 1920 of the Mad. Ep. Coll: SII, IX, Pt. I, No. 47.
3 ARE, 1921 pt. ii, para 2; Turumara-vishaya of these records corresponds to a portion of the Gooty taluk, around Chitrachēdu.
ARE, 339 of 1905; SII, IX, Pt. 1 No. 49.
No. 474 of 1906 of the Mad. Ep. Coll. : JTA, Vol. XXIV, p. 160.
JOR, Vol. X, p. 34, n. 4; above, Vol. XXIV, p. 185, #. 8.
7 Gadval plates; above, Vol. X. p. 103, text l. 18.
Mack. Mss. 15-4-30, Ms. p. 242.
Above, Vol. VIII, p. 24; XXIV. p. 185, n. 8. A Perbbana-Muttarasar figures in a record of the W. Ganga king, Durvinita; MAR. 1941, pp.132-3.
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