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reigned 40 years. Their son was called Rajendra- on its eastern border about 50 miles south of the Chola. He married Madhurántari, the daughter Godavari or more nearly 22 miles west of the of another Rajarajendra-Deva, the ornament of Vasishthi branch. the solar race. They had several sone. Among I am unable to reconcile the discrepancies found them was one nained Rajaraja. "The earth-lord | in these three documents, which are probably due (or sovereign), seeing his many good qualities, in a great measure to the incorrect version of thus addressed him :-Being myself desirous B. above referred to; but, that Vira-Chola was a of ruling over Chola, I'appointed my uncle son of Rajendra, and governed the Yengi-country Vijayhditya to rule the country of Vengi, which for many years, appears to be certain from the he did for 15 years. Now, in consequence of great number of inscriptions in his name included his death, that duty is imposed on you. Hearing in my MS. Collection. A difficulty however this, the son, though reluctant to part with his occurs in identifying the great Rajendra with the father, assumed the dignity and administered the names mentioned in the grants. In the I. N. 0. affairs of Vengi for one year, when, thinking that I have made what I believe to be his exact date happiness consisted in sitting at his father's feet, as A.D. 1064-1113. With this Vira-Deva-Chola's which could not be placed in competition with the vice-royalty would agree tolerably well, the date possession of power, he returned to his parents. of the Chelar inscription in his first year being The Chakravartin (or sovereign) then bestowed the A.D. 1079, or 15 years subsequent to his father's government on his younger brother, the valiant accession, tallying nearly with the administration young prince Vira-Chola, and blessed him, saying of Vijayaditya which is stated to have been 15 that his feet should be placed on the heads of years, or, including Rajarija's one year, 16 years. kings. Accordingly he took leave of his mother, Of this youthful Rajaraja we hear no more; but father, and elder brother, and accompanied by he was probably the Vikrama who succeeded his a younger brother repaired to Vengi. He was father in A.D. 1113, and whose other name of installed in his office in Saka 1001(=A.D. 1079-80)." Rå jardja has been perpetuated on the numerous One of his first acts was to confer a mark of coins of that period. distinction on a favoured dependant named The views I took in the paper communicated to Merlamarya, the son of Potana of the Mudgala the Madras Journal in 1858 accord nearly, as far yötra, by giving him a village named Kaleru as they go, with those above stated. for the endowment of two chattrams, one at Vijayaditya was a family designation in the Draksharam, the other at Pithapur, and for the
Eastern Chalukya line, as well as Vishnuvardhana ; maintenance of a tank and temple in the agra.
and it was from the latter that Vira-Deva took the hitram of Chelûr in Saka 1001 = A.D. 1079-80. title of saptama or seventh'Vishnuvardhana, as
Mr. Fleet's second grant C is the latest, and is well as that of Kulottunga-Choja. Rajendra said to have been transmitted by a Mr. Smith, calls the Vijayaditya here referred to his uncle, who obtained it from the Karnam of Chittar. but the loose description of the genealogy does This I take to be a mistake for Chelar, as my not enable us to see how this could be. Perhape notes state both this and the last to have been he was the son of VimalAditya and Rajendra's procured by Mr. George Anthony Smith, the sister, and by a mistake in the translation has Collector of Rajamahendri, from Dantla Venkata- been called "my" instead of "your " uncle. pati Ráz the Karnam of Chelor. They were Similar views were stated in the I. N. 0. at forwarded to me by that gentleman about the year Pp. 88, 120, 121, 131, where I have also referred 1843 or 1844. It gives the same genealogy as
to Dr. Burnell's conclusions, and a résumé of the A down to Vimaladitya. His son Rajaraja II. Cheldr inscription, when found, was added a reigned 41 years, and was succeeded by his son
p. 150. Kulottunga-Chodla-Deva I. who ruled 49 years.
The importance of the points at issue makes it Next comes Vikrama-Choda, his son, for 15 years, desirable to have that portion of the Chelor inand his son Kulottunga-Choda-Deva II. He scription containing the genealogy printed from bestowed the village of Ponduva on Kolani-Katama- the original plates for insertion in this Journal, niyaka, who resided at Sarasipuri in a lake. with a critical translation by the able paleo. district of which he was the governor. With the graphist, whose aid I have already invoked. sanction of his superior he transferred the village
WALTER ELLTOT. just conferred on him to certain Brahmans as an Wolfelee, 18th March 1885. agraharam in Saka 1056= A.D. 1034-34. The lake in question is evidently the Kolar lake, lying
THE GENEALOGY OF THE CHOLAS. between the Godavari and KrishnA, and the village The latter portion of the genealogy of the larger of Panduva is shown in Arrowsmith's map No. 94 Chôļa grant at Leiden, of which Dr. Burgess
