Indian Antiquary Vol 48

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ August, 1919
three successive generations 1' there was a series of important political inter marriages between the Chôļas and the Eastern Châlukyas of Vêīgi and the latter were more and more leaning towards the Chóļas. The adoption of their maternal grandfather's name by Rajaraja and Rajendra is itself an indication of this. Rajendrachôla II had become by extraction both on the father and mother's side a Chôļa at heart. Consequently the influence of the Western Châlukyas over their brethren in the east was waning day by day. Vikramaditya probably wanted to regain tho ancient Chalukya influence at Veigi and to supplant the growing ascendancy of the Chôļa there and it was probably with a view to accomplish this object that, soon after the death of Rajaraja in A.D. 1061-2, he sent Châvundaraya to Vêigi with a smalt army. To counteract it and to see that the vassal kingdom of Veigi did not slip out of his hands Viraråjendra should have sent an army of his own which defeated hin and prevented him from gaining a hold there. Neither Vikramaditya nor Virarâjêrdra was now directly interested in Vergi, but each saw in it a lever of influence for the furtherance, of his own interests and so keenly desired to exercise his influence on the 'buffer' state. With a friendly Veigi each could hope to terminate the border struggle on the Tungabhadrâ in his own favour.
Immediately after the disastrous Kadal day (A.D. 1063-4) Vikramaditya seems to have directed his march to the north towards Veigi and Chakrakoța,'8 as Bilhana has it, perhaps to undo the victory of the Cholas on the Tuigabhadra by creating for himself an effective sphere of influence there. This time he did not content himself with despatching his deputies thither as he did on the previous occasion but went in person. There though Rajendrachôļa II was duly anointed to the Vêigi throne 10 on the death of his father Rajaraja In A.D. 1061-2, yet his ambition was not and could not be confined and cribbed within the narrow limits of Vêngi. So, desirous of a tour of conquest or of the Chôļa kingdom he bestowed his patrimony Veigi on his uncle Vijayaditya.in the very year of his accession to the Veigi throne (i.e., A.D. 1063) 20 and appointed Vijayaditya his deputy ard viceroy.
17 A short genealogical table will make this clear.
Chola (Solar)
Rajaraja the Great (I). E. Chalukya (Lunar)
VimalAditya = Kand-avvai
Rajendrachola I or Gangaikondachðļa.
Rajardja
Ammangadêvi.
Rajendrachốla II
or
Kulottunga 1 13 Chakrakottam has been correctly identified by Rao Bahadur Hira Lal with Chakrakótya in the modern Bastar Stato-Epi. Ind., IX, 178. Epi. Rep., 1909.
1 SH., L. 59. Chellor grant of Viracha At first occupied the throne of Vengr, the cause of the ping of splendour.' Epi Ind., IV, 227. No. 4, v. 27; No. 33, v. 18 & 22— Rajendrachola ruled over
dhravishaya (the Telugu Country) together with the five Dravidas.' Inscription at Tiruvottiyar. SII., III. Ho ruled over the region of the rising Sun.' This refers to Veigi and not Burmah as Prof. S. Krishnaswami Ayyangar takes it; vide South Indian Association Journal, Vol. 1, 64.
Epi, Ind., V, 78. SII., I, 60. Chellar grant. Introduction.