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MARCH, 1891.]
THE EASTERN CHALUKYA CHRONOLOGY.
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Moreover, forty-four years is the only period that fits in at all naturally, if we look to such details as have been considered in the arrangement of my principal List, on page 12 above. A reign of forty-eight years cannot be allowed for there, without making such reductions in other reigns, as practically to shorten some of them by a full year at least; and it seems almost an impossible length, following, in a new generation, after reigns of thirty-seven, eighteen and thirty-six years, in three successive generations. For these reasons, forty-four years is the duration that I have adopted in my principal List, in which the reigns are determined according to the years A. D. In the alternative List, however, on page 13, the principle of the arrangement of which makes it easy enough to admit a longer time, I have allowed for forty-eight years, on the chance that this is really the correct record.
J. speaks of him as "a fire of destraction to the Ganga family ;" and as "having the valonr of a lion, splitting open (the temples of) the lordly elephants of his enemies (ari-nágádhipa) with his unsheathed sharp sword;" this last epithet seems to have a double meaning, and to indicate also a defeat of some hostile chief of the Nagas. And L. states that during twelve years, by day and by night, he fought a hundred and eight battles with the armies of the Gangas and the Rattas, and built the same number of large temples of Siva under the name of Sambhu. The Rattas here spoken of, are the well-known Rashtrakatas of Malkhed, of whom the reigning kings were, Gôyinda III. at the beginning of the time of Vijayaditya II., and Amôg bavarsha I. later on. In his Rådhanpur grant of Saka-Sarvat 730 (ante, Vol. VI. pp. 63, 71) Govinda III. claims to have ordered "the lord of Vengt" into his presence, and to have made him assist in building or fortifying a city. It would seem, therefore, that, in the contest between the two dynasties, success was not entirely with the Eastern Chalukyas. The Gangas may be either some of the feudatory Ganga Mahámandalesvaras, who are mentioned in some Rashtrakața inscriptions ; or early members of the family of the Eastern Gangas of Kalinganagara (ante, Vol. XVIII. pp. 161 ff). The building of the temples of Siva is referred to again in K, and M., in passages in which the god is called Narondrésvara, - *. e.
fávara' in composition with the first part of the king's biruda. L. further speaks of him as "the lord of Vengt (Veng-ika);" and this seems to give really the first indication that the country of Vengî constituted the dominions of this dynasty.
Of his time we have two records :
G. - A grant from an unknown locality; edited by Dr. Hultzsch, in his South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 31 ff. ; I have also my own reading of the original plates. - It gives the dynastic name as Chalukya. The genealogy commences with Vijayaditya I. The charter was issued by Vijayâditya II. himself ; and it records the grant of the village of Korraparry, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon. The name of the vishaya in which the village was situated, is illegible. The Dütaka was the prince Nripa-Rudrs, who is described as a brother of Vijayaditya II., but as a descendant of the Haihaya race; he appears, therefore, to have been a half-brother, born from a different wife of Vishnuvardhana IV. who belonged to the lineage of the Kalachuris of Tripura. The writer was Aksharalalitácharya, a resident of Vijayavada, which must be the modern Bezwada, in the Kistna District.
H.- A grant from Idara "20 in the Kistna District; edited by Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri, ante, Vol. XIII. p. 55; I quote, however, from my own reading of the original plates. - It gives the dynastic name as Chalukya. The genealogy commences with Vijayaditya I., who appears to be mentioned by the birudas of Vikrama-Rama and Vijayasiddhi. The charter was issued by Vijayaditya II. himself. It records the grant of a field at the village of Vamfupireyu or Vamrupileyu in the Kandaruvadi vishaye, made on account of an eclipse of the sun. The Dútaka was Bolama.
0 This name is written iafra (ante, Vol. XIII, p. 50); Edêru (Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Madras, Vol. II. p. 26); and Idara (id. Vol. I. p. 51).
