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THE CHOLAS AND THE CHALUKYAS
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THE CHOLAS AND THE CHALUKYAS IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
BY BHATTANATHA SVAMIN; VIZAG APATAM. T is well-known from epigraphical records that the line of the Eastern Chalukyag was absorbed 1 in the Chila family about A.D. 1070. As soon as the Eastern Chalukyas gained supremacy in the Chila kingdom, they assumed the titles of the Chola kings, perhaps because, they bad regarded the Cholas with admiration and been anxious for a long time to attain to their status and titles. But how the Eastern Châlukya princes were able to occupy the Chola throne is a problem which has not yet been solved.
The Eastern Chalukya king Vimaladitya began to reign, as stated in his Raņastipândi grant, in A. D. 1011.He married Kundarâ, daughter of Rajaraja I of the Chola family, and their son was named after the maternal grandfather. He is the well-known Rajaraja Narendra of Rajahmundry. It appears that Vims laditya and bis successors of Vêngi became feudatories of the Cholas, for the Korumilli inscription of Rajaraja Narendra undoubtedly acknowledges the supremacy of the Cholas. Ammangi, daughter of Rajnédrachola I, Gangaikonda, was married to Rajaraja Narêudra. He ascended the throne on the sixteenth of Angust A.D. 10224 and ruled forts one years. The famous Telugu foet Nannayabbafta lived at the court of this king and dedicated his Telugu Bhdratamu to him.6
After the death of Rajaraja Narendra, Vijayaditya, another son of Vimaladitya, ruled ovet the Veigi country for fifteen years from A.D. 1062 to 1077.' In the year A. D. 1062 Virara. jêndia, the last son of Rijendrachila I, Gungaikonca, ascer ded the throne of the Chole country, An inscription of his second regual year refers to a battle where he defeated an army which was sent into Vergi by Vikramaditya VI of the Western Châlukya family. This battle can be, hence, dated about A. D. 1062-1069, i. e., soon after the death of Rajaraja Narendra. Probably Vikramadityo wanted to wrest Tengi soon after Rajaraja Narendra died, but apparently Virarájêndre helped Vijayaditys of the Eastern Chalukya family to succeed to his brother's throne.
Vêngi wa again plundered by Dhard-Jananátha and others about A. D. 1067, for this event is mentioned in the inscriptions of the fifth and subsequent years of Virarajêndra's reign. In an inscription, 11 Vanapati, the minister of the Kalinga king Rajaraja, (who ruled for 8 years from Sala 991 or A.D. 1069 to Saka 998 or A.D. 107619) is said to have fought with the army of the Cbias and to have defeated the ruler of Vengi. This battle seems to be the same as that mentioned in the inscriptions of Virajajêndra. Mr. G. V. Ramamurti Pantulu also thinks this Vergi king to be Vijayaditya VII. In Anantavarma's grant of Saka Saiņval 1040** Rajaraja of Kalinga is said to have defeated the Dramilas and to have thus helped Vijayaditya of Vêngi. Now, Vanapati's inscription and Anantavarma's grant refer to the same fact, but seem to contradict each other, tecatee one makes the Kalinga king Rajaraja the enemy of the king of Tingi and the other makes him the friend of Vijayaditye, the lord of Vengi. This apparent a beurdity will be removed if we assume that the grant of Anantavarma refers not to the king of Vengi but to Vijayaditya, brother of Western Châlokya Vikramaditya VI, who also bore th: 1 Ep. Ind. Vol. VI., pp. 347-861.
Ante, Vol. XIV., PP. 50-55. 3 Ibid. Vol. XIX., p. 430.
Ibid. pp. 129 ff. • Ibid. p. 491.
. Soo the beginning of that work. • Ante, Vol. XIX., p. 481.
• Ep. Ind., Vol. VII, p. 9. • South Ind. Ins., Vol. IIT., P. 193
1. Ibid. Nos. 30, 82, 83, and 84. 11 Ep. Ind., vol. IV PP. 314-818.
11 JASB., Vol. LXIII., Part I., p. 100. 18 Ep. Ind, Vol. 1V., p.815, note 4.
16. Ante, Vol. XVIII., p. 171.
