Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 48
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ ICCUET, ] THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHALUKYA VIKRAMADITYA 139 was fought in the second year of Virârajendra (A.D. 1063-4) wherein Åhavamalla is said to have retreated with his great army along with his two sons Vikkalan and Singanan. The Chola claims this to be his third successful encounter with Ahavamalla, but if we exclude the minor attacks at Ganga padi and Vengi this was his first and the only really great exploit against the Chalukyas and deservedly do the Kalingattupparani 8 and Vikramacéolan-uld 8. refer to him as the renowned victor at Kadalsangamam. Thus the death of Rajadhiraja at Koppa in A.D. 1053-4 was thus avenged in a way at Kadalsangamam in A.D. 1063, nearly a decade later. Virarajendra followed up his victory at Kudal and claims to have defeated before his fifth year (A.D. 1066-7), on the banks of the winding river-probably the Tungabhadrå, -some chiefs, among whcm figure the Gangas and the Nolambas, who were undoubtedly the feudatories of the Western Châlukyas. The fifth year inscription of Virarájendra at Mapimanga lam informs us that Åhavamalla, desirous of wiping out the disgraceful defeat at Kadal, preferring death to a life of dishonour, at once wrote an autograph letter to the Chola king challenging him to meet him once mcre on an appointed day at the same Kudal, saying that he that evaded the appointment through fear was no king but a liar. Virarajendra duly proceeded to Karandai (Injal-Karasji 10 near Kada]) and though he waited there for more than a month after the appointed day, Ahavamalla did not turn up. Virarajendra too readily Assumed that his absence was due to cowardice and called him a liar as he did not keep his appointment and made much of the good situation in which he found himself. He claims to have planted a pillar of victory on the Tungabhadrâ; not content with this he made an image of the Vallabha king (Ähavamalla), tied round its neck the royal neoklace, wrote unmistakably on a bcard how the person signified by the image had escaped the trunk of an elephant (by his cowardly evasion of the appointment as the Chola fancied), suspended the board as well as a closed quiver of arrows to the flowery (because Arrow-stricken) chest of the image and thus ridiculed the Chalukki Ahavamalla. 11 The latter's failure to appear at Kadal on the appointed day was not at all due to cowardice as the Chola king fondly imagined, but was the result of circumstances far beyond his control. He was suddenly seized with " "குர் தளரைக் கூடற் சங்கமத்து வென்ற கோனபயன்." | -Kalingattupparani, VIII, 29. * சங்கமத்துக் கொள்ளுர் தனிப்பரணிக் கெண்ணிறந்த துங்க மதயானை துணித்தோளும்," -Vikramaclan-uld, 22 SII., III, 68, No. 30.-One of the longest but at the same time the most interesting and Instructive inscriptions. 10 Ragarding the identification of Karandai with Injal-Karafiji, co wpi, Inde, XIT, 298. . The original of the Manimangalam inscription relating to the text roads as follows பழியொடு வாழ்வதிற் சாவது சாலான்றென் றேவமுற்றின சிந்தை யனாசி முன்னம் புதல்வருந்தாலும் முதுகிட்ைெடந்த படலங்களமெனக் குறித்த கடலில் வாராதஞ்சினர் மன்னவரல்லர் போர்ப்பெரும் பழிப் புரட்டராவர்

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