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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1891.
U. tells us that he slew the glorious Rajamayya; the mighty Dhalaga, or Valaga; the fierce Tatabikki; Bijja, who was always ready for war; the very terrible Ayyapa; a great army that was sent by king Govinda; Lovabikki, the ruler of the Cholas; and Yuddhamalla, with his arrays of elephants. Here, Yuddhamalla must be his predecessor of that name, the son of Tadapa. Govinda is the Rashtrakata king Govinda V.; he and the others appear to be the "other claimants" spoken of in P. Tatabik ki is also mentioned in 0., by the name of Tatabikyans; and the same record seems to mention Dhalaga or Valaga. and one other opponent whose name does not occur in the passage in U. Ayyapa is very probably the Ayyapadêva of the Begûr inscription of the Western Ganga king Ereyapparasa (Epigraphia Indica, p. 347 ff.); from the Atakûr inscription, which I shall shortly publish, it is now known that his period was just before A, D. 950, and it becomes quite possible that he really was the Western Chalukya Ayyaņa I.
of this reign we have three records :
M. - A grant from Paganavaram in the Madras Presidency; edited by me, with a lithograph, ante, Vol. XIII. p. 213. - It gives the dynastic name as Chalukya. The genealogy commences with Kubja-Vishņuvardhana I., the brother of Satyaśraya, 'the lord of favourites' (vallabhêndra); and this record is the first to state that he reigned over the Vongi mandala. The charter was issued by Bhima II. himself; and it records a grant of the village of Diggubarru in the Pagunavara vishaya.
N.- A grant from apparently Masulipatam in the Kistna District; not yet published ; I quote from my reading of the original plates. - It gives the dynastic name as Chalukya. The genealogy commences with Kubja-Vishņuvardhana I., the brother of Satyasraya, the lord of favourites. The charter was issued by Bhima II. himself; and it records the grant of a field at the village of Akulamannaņdu in the Gudravåra vishaya, made on an occasion of the Uttarayaņa-Samkrinti.
0.- A grant from Kolavenna in the Kistna District ; edited by Dr. Holtzsch, SouthIndian Inscriptions, Vol. I. page 43, No. 37.-It gives the dynastic name as Chalukye. It commences with a verse in praise of the water-lily, which grew from the Davel of Vishnu, and was the birth-place of Brahman. Then follows the usual introductory passage, opening the genealogy with Kubja-Vishnu I., the brother of Satyasraya ;19 but the words which state that he reigned over the country of Vengi, are not included. The charter was issued by Bhîma II. himself; and it records a grant of the village of Kodhatalli in the Kanderuvati vishaya, made on an occasion of the Uttarayaņa-Sankranti. The grant was made at the reqäest of a prince named Vajjaye, of the Panara family, who had helped to protect the kingdom of Bhima II.
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23. - Amma II. ; Vijayaditya VI.
Twenty-five years; A.D. 945 to 970. He was a younger son, and the successor, of No. 22, Bhima II.18 His name occurs thronghout as Amama. He had the epithet of samastabhavanabraya, 'asylum of the universe;' the other name of Vijayaditya VI.; and, like his uncle of the same name, the biruda of RajaMahendra (see Q., and S., lino 36, 37). In his grants P. and R. to U., he uses the titles of Maharajadhiraja, Paramokvara, and Paramabhattaraka; in Q., instead of Mahdrájádhiraja being used, Maharaja is attached to his name of Vijayaditya, and is followed by Rajadhirają, with the other two titles. The seals of his grants bear the motto of Sri-Tribhuvanankuba. There is a corrupt passage in V., line 46 f., which seems to hint that he had a struggle for the crown with Yuddhamalla II. ; bat. with this exception, it would appear that the family dissen
11 In this case no epithet, neither vallabha, nor ballabhåndra, -- is attached to Satyáraya's name.
18 The recorda with which I am dealing in Mall, mention only two sons, Danarnava and Amma II. But the Pit tApuram insoription of Bala-Sathvat 1124 states that he had three sons; and sooms to give their names 'Ne Bhima (IV.), Amm, and Di n'rraya,
