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DECEMBER, 1890.]
CHELLUR GRANT OF VIRA-CHODADEVA.
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meditate on the feet of the god) Svimi-Mahasena; who have had the territories of their enemies made subject to them on the instant at the sight of the excellent crest of a boar (1. 31) which they acquired through the favour of the divine Narayana ; and whose bodies have been pcrified by ablutions performed after celebrating the asvamédha-sacrifice, - ruled over the Vergi deba for eighteen years (1. 33).
His son, Jayasimha (I.), the favourite, ruled for thirty-three years (1. 34). His younger brother, Indraraja, for seven days. His son, Vishnuvardhana (II.), for nine years. His son Mangi-Yuvaraja (1. 35), for twenty-five years. His son, Jayasimha (II.), for thirteen years. His younger brother, Kokkili (1. 36), for six months. Having expelled him, his elder brother, Vishnuvardhana (III.), reigned for thirty-seven years. His son, Vijayaditya-Bhattaraka (I.) (1. 37), for eighteen years. His son, Vishnuvardhana (IV.), for thirty-six years. His son, Narendramfigaraja-(Vijayaditya II.), for forty-eight years. His son, Kali-Vishnuvardhana (V.), for one year and a half year. His son, Gunaganka-Vijayaditya (III.), for forty-four years. Then Chalukya-Bhima (I.) (1. 39), the son of his (younger) brother Vikramaditya (1.), for thirty years. His son, Kollabhiganda-Vijayaditya (IV.), for six months, His son, Amma (I.) (1. 40)for seven years. Having expelled his son Vijayaditya (V.), while he was a child, Tadapa (1. 41) reigned for one month. Having conquered him, · Vikramaditya (II.), the son of Chalukya-Bhima (I.), reigned for eleven months. Then
Yuddhamalla (II.) (1. 42), the son of that same Tadapa, reigned for seven years. Having expelled him from the country, Raja-Bhima (II.), the younger brother of Amma (I.), reigned for twelve years. His son, Amma (II.) (1. 43), for twenty-five years. His half-brother, born from a different mother, Danangipa, for three years. Then, for twenty-seven years, through the spite of fate, the land of Vengi was without a lord (1. 44). Then king Saktivarman (1. 45), the son of Danarnava, reigned for twelve years. Then his younger brother, Vimaladitya, for seven years. Then his son, Rajaraja I. (1. 47), for forty-one years; he was a sole ornament of the glorioas Lunar Race (1. 49). His queen was Ammangadevi (1. 50-51), the daughter of Bajendra-Choda of the race of the sun. Their son was Rajendra-Choda (1. 53-54), who, at first had the sovereignty of Vengi, “which was the canse of the rising of his splendoar," and who conquered in succession the Kerala, Pandye, Kuntala, and other countries (1. 56). He was also called Kulotturgadeva (11. 59-60); under which title he was anointed in the Choda kingdom; and another of his names was Raja-Narayana (1. 61), because on his hands there were marks of the conch-shell, the discus, and the water-lily. He married Madhurantakidevi (1. 62-63), the daughter of Rajendradeva of the race of the sun. And they had seven sons. One of their sons, -as a matter of fact, their second son, was Rajaraja (II.) (1. 64). To him his father explained that, when he himself was anointed to the Choda kingdom, he had given the sovereignty of Vengt to his own paternal uncle Vijayaditya (1. 66), who ruled there for fifteen years, and then died. He now appointed Rajaraja (II.) as Vijayaditya's successor; and the latter, though the separation from his fatber was unwelcome to him, obedientdy took up the barden (1. 68); bat, feeling that sovereignty was no happiness without the pleasure of being able to worship the feet of his elders, he governed the country of Vengt for only one year, and then returned to his parents (1. 70). Then Kulottungadê va appointed Vira-Choda (1.70), the younger brother of Rajaraja II., to the sovereignty of Vengt; and, being blessed by his father, his mother, and his two elder brothers, in succession, Vira-Chods was, with difficulty.
The expression in the original here is sapta-Trithéati-varshani daiva-durshayd pengt-mahir anayik-dbhavat. IL the grant of R&jardja I. it is said that "for twenty-seven years a feverish desire, to obtain a suitable lord, consumed the earth, which was without a ruler;" and that "Chalukya-Chandra oured the fever of the earth." In another record (Telugu Sasanams, p. 777) it is said that sakalinga-eandhra-madalam andmikam 'éva vidhi-vafdd bhdtan.
The time in question has been understood as a period of acaroby. But the expressions do not seem to necessarily mean that; compare the description of Vengt, in one of the Pitt¶m inscriptions (page 127 above), as being nayakarahitd again at a later time, when there was certainly no anarchy.
# The number of their sons is not explioitly mentioned; but, se pointed out by Dr. Hultesch, it is indicated by their being compared with the (seven) streams of the Ganges, the (neven) suns or Adityas, and the (seven) mountain (see his translation of the verse).
