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Vijayaditya VII. ; viceroy of Vengt.
A. D, 1083 to 1077. All that is known about this person is derived from w., which tells us that he was a paternal uncle of No. 28, Kulôttunga-Chodadêva I., and consequently a brother, - probably a younger brother, of No. 27, Râjarâja I.; and that he was & viceroy of Vengt, under his nephew, for fifteen years, - 4. D. 1063 to 1077 (see page 277 below), His name occurs as simply Vijayaditya.
To this period belongs the statement, in one of the Ganga grants (ante, Vol. XVIII. p. 171), that, "when Vijayaditya, beginning to grow old, left the country of Veng!, as if he were the sun leaving the sky, and was about to sink in the great ocean of the Chodas," Rajaraja of Kalinganagara (A. D. 1071 to 1078) “ caused him to enjoy prosperity for a long timo in the western region."27
28. - Kulottunga-Chopadeva I,
Forty-pine years; A. D. 1063 to 1112, He was the son of No. 27, Rajaraja I. From W. we learn that his original appellation was Rajendra-Choda; but that subsequently he received the name of Kulottungadeva, on being unointed to the Choda (i.e. Chola) sovereignty; also, that he had the biruda of Raja-Narayana. X. speaks of him by the name of Kulottunga-Choqadova; and this is the most expedient form to use. By the name of Rajondra-Châļa, he is mentioned in two of the Ganga inscriptions (ante, Vol. XVIII. pp. 164, 175). In the Vikrumánkadévacharita (seo pago 280 below), he is called Rajiga; which name is a colloquial form of the first part of his original appellation. And he is probably mentioned as Rajiga-Chola in two inscriptions at Chitaldurg and Harihar.38 According to W., his wife was Madhurantakidovi, the daughter of Rajánd radova of the Solar Race, i.e. apparently of the Chola king Kô-Parakesarivarman, otherwise called Udaiyar SriRajendradêra (Dr. Haltasch's South Indian Inscriptions, pp. 112, 134) ;39 and they had seven sons ;30 the eldest was Vikrama-Choda, who ultimately succeeded to the throne; the second was Rajaraja II., who was viceroy of Veigi for one year; the third was Vira-Chodadava, who also beenmo viceroy of Vengî; the others are not named. In addition, they appear also to have had a daughter, named Rajasundari, who became the wife of Rajaraja of Kalinganagara (ante, Vol. XVIII. pp. 164, 171, 175).31 According to X., Kulôttniga-Chodadêva I. reigned for forty-nine years. The Pittậpuram inscription, however, dated in 'Saka-Samvat 112+, states that he reigned for fifty years, and reduces his father's reign from forty-one years to forty (see anto, Vol. XIX. p. 427). In connection with this we may note, in the first place, that this same Pithapuram inscription appears to mention Kulôttuuga-Chôdadêva I. as being
27 i.e. in the west as rogarda Kulinganagara; not in the western part of Southern India.
» Pili, Sanskrit, anul Oul. Kanten Inscriptions, Xo. 1.16, line 8, and 119, lino 7.- They are inscriptions of . Nah Anun.aldiwira, named Vijaya-Pan-lyadeva, who was governing the Yoļambavali Thirty-two-thousand at Uchangi. The expression applied to Vijaya-Pån lyadeva is riiga-chianini-bhanga, 'who frustrated the wishes of Rájiga-Chöln; and, as the inscriptions are dated in A. D. 1123 and 1171, it appears to be an ancestral titlo, not indicative of any contemporaneous event.
99 Of his time we have one inscription, loc. cit. p. 134, No. 127. His earliest date cannot be placed before A. D. 1051 (seo note 19 above); and this inscription is dated in his fifth year; consequently he cannot be placed onrlier than A. D. 1051 to 1051. His connection with his predecessor has not yet been made clear.
50 Soe ante, Vol. XIX. p. 135, note 84.
01 It is, however, not quite certain that Rajasandari's father was the Eastern Chalukya king. Her father is mentioned na RAjēndro-Chola (pp. 164, 175), and as the Chôda king (p. 171). My assumption is that "the choda king" denotne, not a real Chon, but the Eastern Chalukys after the annexation of the Chola kingdom. A his predecessor reigned for at least twenty-six years, the accession of the Chola Rajendra-Chola cannot be placed hefore A.D. 1028 : nad ns he himself reigned for at least twenty-four years, the end of his reign cannot be placed heforo A. D. 1051, and it may approximato much more closely to the period of Räjarja of Kalibganagara. Still, I think the probabilitios are more in favour of the idenification that I have made; especially since a daughter of -he Chola Rajendra Cha was the wife of Rajarfja I. in the period A. D. 1022 to 1063.
