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MARCH, 1891.] THE EASTERN CHALUKYA CHRONOLOGY.
king Vallabha did honour to the arms of Vijayâditya III. And it is probably in connection with some earlier event of this reign, involving on this occasion a defeat of the Eastern Chalukyas, that we must understand the statement in the 'Sirûr inscription, that worship was done to the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha I. by the lord of Vengt (ante, Vol. XII. p. 219). Mangi may have been a Chôla king; a Pittapuram inscription, of Saka-Samvat 1124, calls him Mangi-Rajendra, and states that Vijayâditya played the game of ball with his head.
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Of this reign we have one record: -
J. A grant from an. unknown locality; not yet published. It gives the family-name as Chalukya. The genealogy commences with Vijayaditya II. The charter was issued by Vijayaditya III. himself. It records the grant of the village of Tundaparu or Tranḍaparu in the Gudravåra vishaya, to a person named Vinayadisarman, who appears to be either the actual slayer of Mangi, or the leader of the troops on the occasion of his being slain. The grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon. The Dútaka was Pandaranga (possibly for Pândurâja). The writer was Kaṭṭama, or Kaṭṭaya.
Vikramaditya I.
He was a younger brother of No. 13, Vijayâditya III. K., M., N., P., S., and U., mention him with the title of Yuvaraja; and T. speaks of him as "wearing round his throat a glittering necklet (kanthika)," which appears to have been the token of the dignity and rank connected with his name.27 But he evidently did not actually ascend the throne.
Yuddhamalla I.
He was a (younger) brother of the preceding, Vikramaditya I. His name occurs, as Yuddhamalla, in S., in which he is specified as a paternal uncle of Bhima I.,28 and in U.; in X. he is not mentioned by name, but is simply referred to as a brother of Vikramaditya. He apparently did not reign.
No. 14; Chalukya-Bhima I.
Thirty years; A. D. 888 to 918.
He was the son of the Yuvaraja Vikramaditya I.; and he succeeded Vijayaditya III. His name occurs as simply Bhima in S. and U.; and as Nripa-Bhima in K.; but he is usually mentioned as Chalukya-Bhima, in other places in K. and U., and in M. to R., and T. to X.; L. gives the prefix with the short a in the first syllable, Chalukya-Bhima. L. gives him the biruda of Droh-Arjuna; and S. seems to give him also the biruda of Saucha-Kandarpa. K. and all the following grants agree in stating that he reigned for thirty years.
From L. we learn that, after the time of Vijayâditya III., the land of Vengi was overrun by the Battas, and had to be reconquered by Bhima I.; and U. specifically states that his opponent, whom he conquered, was Krishnavallabha, i. e. Krishna II. K. mentions his general, named Mahakala, the son of his foster-sister Gâmakâmbâ, who was the daughter of his wet-nurse Nagapoți.
15. - Vijayaditya IV.; Kollabiganda. Six months; A. D. 918.
He was the eldest son of No. 14, Bhima I. His name occurs as simply Vijayaditya in K., L., M., N., O., T. and X.; as Kollabiganda- Vijayaditya in Q. and V.; and as KollabhigandaVijayaditya in P., R., and W.; while S. mentions him as simply Kollabiganda and Kollabiganḍabhaskara; U. states that he was Vijayaditya, who was also named king Kollabigands. L. also attaches the biruda of Kaliyartyanka29 to his name; and an unpublished inscription
27 See ante, Vol. VI. p. 70, note; and Vol. XI. p. 161, note 27.
In line 16, for chalukya-bhima-pitṛivyam yuddhamall-atmajas, read pitrivya yuddhamall.
anka seems to me to be used here in the sense of name, appallation, secondary title,'-"having the biruda of Kaliyarti" (see ante, Vol. XIX. p. 18, note 44).
