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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1891.
Rajaraja II. ; viceroy of Vengi.
A, D. 1077-78. He was the second son of No. 28, Kulottunga-Chôdadêva I. From W. we learn that, after the death of Vijayaditya VII., his father appointed him as viceroy of Vengi. But the appointment was unwelcome to him; and he held the office for only one year, - A. D. 1077-78; then, being homesick, he threw it np and returned to his parents.
Vira-Chodaddva ; Vishnuvardhana IX. ;
viceroy of Vengi.
A. D. 1078 and 1100. He was the third son of No. 28, Kulottunga-Chôdadêva I. In addition to his proper name, which appears both as Vira-Choda and as Vira-Chodaddva, he had the second name of Vishņuvardhana IX., and the epithet of sarvalókabraya, 'refuge of all mankind.' In both his grants he uses the paramount titles, Maharajadhiraja, Raja-Param@svara, and Paramabhattaraka." And W. describes him as a paramamáhésvara, or most devont worshipper of the god Mahêśvara.' The seal of his grant hears the motto of Sri-Tribhuvanankuba. After the return of his brother Rajaraja II., he was appointed viceroy of Vengi; but, like his elder brother, he was not very willing to take the appointment, and only accepted it after some persuasion. The date of his installation is given in W.; the details are, Saka-Samvat 1001, when the sun was in Simba, i.e. in the solar month Bhadrapada, the thirteenth tithi of the bright fortnight, Guruvira or Thursday, when the moon was in the 'Sravaņa nakshatra, and during the rising of the sign Vrischika ; and, the given 'Saka year having to be applied in this case as a current year, and the tithi as a current tithi used with the week-day on which it began, the corresponding English date is Thursday, 23rd August, A. D. 1078 (see ante, Vol. XIX. p. 426). The duration of his term of office is not yet known; but we have a grant dated in his twentythird year, i. c. in or about A. D. 1100. We learn from his grants, that his seat of government was at the city of Jananathanagari, in the Vengi country; this place has not yet been identified.
Of his time we have one record at present available :16
W. - A grant from Chellari in the Godavari District ; first edited by Dr. Hultzsch in his South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 49, No. 39, and subsequently, but from a prior reading of the original plates, by myself, ante, Vol. XIX. p. 423. - This grant gives again the complete Eastern Chalukya genealogy, mythical, legendary, and historical, which has already been noticed in connection with Rajaraja I. (pago 274 f. above). The historical portion commences with Kubja-Vishnuvardhana I., as the brother of Satyaśraya, 'the lord of favourites ;' and this passage gives the name of the family as Chalukya. The charter was issued by Vira-Choďadeva himself. It is addressed to the inhabitants of the Guddavadi vishaya (see page 97 above, note 13); and it records the grant of a village named Kolefu, by Vira-Chodadeva himself, to a temple of Vishnu which his Sénápati or General, a Vaishnava Brahman named Modemarya and otherwise called Gunaratnabhushana, had built at the Chellaru agrahAra. The Dátakas were the five Pradhanas or Ministers. The composer of the charter was Viddayabhatta; and the writer was Pennachâri. The grant is dated in the twenty-first year of the reign, i. e. of the government of Vira-Chôdadêva ; it should, therefore, be placed in A.D. 1098 ; but no details are given by which the exact English date can be determined. The Chellaru agrahara is, of
4 With this we may compare the fact that in an inscription at Dedr, dated in A. D. 1066 (Sir Walter Elliot's Karnataka-Ddia Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 178), the Western Chalukya Jayasimha IV., while governing at Tardavadi in the time of his father the Maharojadhiroja, Paramebvara, and Paramabhattdraka, Séméivara 1., himself uses the titles of Maharajadhirlija, and Paramebrara.
Dr. Hultesch kindly placed the grant of his twenty-third year at my.disposal, for editing. But I have not bad leisure to deal with it fully.
