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battle by the Telugu-Choda chief of Nellūru, Manumasiddhi II who is stated to have sent his Kayastha general Gangaya-Sabani to collect tribute from him. More about this incident will be said in the sequel. At Tädpatri in the Anantapur District is a long inscription of another chief of the family, viz., Udayāditya who lived many years earlier than Rüyadēva-Mahārāja. This, record which is dated Śaka 1120, Kalayukti, Magha ba. 15, Thursday, solar eclipse (i.e., A. D. 1199 January 28, Thursday, solar eclipse), gives the genealogy of Udayāditya as follows: in the lunar race there was Attiraja whose son was Āhavamalla, whose son was Ganga and Gangu's son was Sõmidēva who was the father of Udayaditya, the donor of the inscription. Udayāditya is given a string of birudas, commencing with the words, Anēku-samara-sanghattan-Opalabdha-vijayalakshmisumălingita-visäla-vukshasthalu, etc., and including among other epithets those like Sidilhava çadēvudivya-sri-päda-pudmärādhaka, Kalukalupuratarūdhiśvura, Bhuvanatriņētra, Kshatriya pavitru and Pratāpakumāra. He is further stated to be ruling from his rajadhani Tātipālapura, i.e., Tādpatri. Ahavamalla mentioned as the great-yrand-father of Udayaditya in the Tadpatri inscription seems identical with his namesake, two of whose records are found in the Rajampet taluk of the Cuddapah District. One of them from Nandalür, which is in Tamil, records a benefaction by him and refers to one Bhaskara-Bhattopadhyaya. The other inscription from Tangatūru, which is in Kannada, is dated Saka 1073, Prajõtpatti, Magha śu. 15, Thursday (i.e., A. D. 1152, January 24, Thursday) and refers itself to the reign of the Western Chālukya king Taila, i.e., Tailapa III. It records the consecration of the temple of Mülasthana-Päpavinasadova by Ahavamalla in honour of his guru Pasupata Tapödhana Jiyar. A still earlier member of the family was MallaMahārāja who is described us ruling Āyujo 300 as a subordinate of Tribhuvanainalla (Vikramaditya VI) in an inscription at Alampur, Raichur District, lated (halukya-Vikrama year 26, Kālayukti.. This chief, like Udayāditya of the Tāpatri record, has a prasasti commencing with the words, Aneka-samara-sangha anopalabdha, etc., and bears almost all his birudas. If he is identified with Ahavamalla of the Tāpatri record, which is not unlikely, he must be supposed to have had a long rule of over fifty years from Chalukya-Vikrania year 26, i.e., A. D. 1101-2 to 1152 A. D. Two more chiefs of this stock are brought to light by an inscription at Chintalaputtūru, near Pushpagiri, Cuddapah District. They are Murari-Kēšavadova-Mahārāja and Sõmidēva-Mahārāja. Their prasasti includes all the epithets held by Sömidova-Manārija of the present Machupalle inscription and in addition that of 'lord of Kalukadapura'. The record states that these two chiefs made a joint donation of Vedullacheruvu to god Indrośvara of Pushpagiri on the occasion of their visit to the holy place in Vibhava, Asbūdha śu. 10, Monday. The corresponding Saka date is not specified in the record. Since the year Vibhava corresponded to A. D. 1268 it is not unlikely that the record was set up in that year, although the other cletails noted in the record do not tally with any date in the month of Ashacha of this year. If the date cited is A. D. 1268, this inscription being only 13 years later than the Michupulle record of 1. D. 1255, it is not improbable that Sünidīva-Mahārāja of the Machupalle inscription and Lis nainesake of the Pushpagiri record are identical. It would follow from this identification that Somidova-Mahārija of our record wus also a scion of the family of chiefs who were distinguished by the appellation, 'Lords of Kalukadapura'. The omission of this particular title in the Machupalle inscription does indeed weaken
18. I. I., Vol. IV, No.798. * No. 577 of 1907 of the Mad. Ep. Coll. » Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Taras Presidency, Vol. 1, Ou. 580: Locul Iccords, Vol. IX, p. 200.
Telangana Inscriptions, pp. 126-7. Ins. No. 26. The cyclic year quoted does not tally with the Ch. Vik. year 26; the latter would correspond to A. D. 1101-). The Kalayukti ycar would correspond to A.D. 1078 and 1138 both of which do not seem to be the intended year.
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. The dotails, however, correspond to A. D. 1148, June 28 but this date would be too early for Kebavadovs and Somidöva sinco these two princes wore contemporaries of Ambadova of A. D. 1272-1802.
