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The Nolambas seem to have been dealt with earlier. On the plain of Gōnur their army was crushed. For the valour which Camuṇḍa Raya displayed in this war, he was given the title Viramärtäṇḍa, while his overlord king Marasimha took to himself the biruda of Nolambakulāntaka. The former fact we learn from the Camuṇḍarāyapurāṇa, and the latter, from the Kuge Brahmadeva pillar inscription.1 How his royal master praised him in this war with the Nolamba Rāja is described in the Tyagada Brahmadeva pillar inscription.2 These facts prove the statement we have made that Cămunda Raya had served also under king Marasimha.
The other enemies in the reign of king Mārasimha and of his son Rācamalla IV were likewise formidable, but they too suffered the same fate at the hands of the indomitable Jaina general. For instance, there was a ruler named Vajvaladeva or Vajjala, who, as the above Kūge Brahmadeva pillar relates, was famous in the world," and "ready for war, having been encouraged" by some one whose name is effaced in the record.3 The Tyagada Brahmadeva pillar inscription gives us the cause of the war with Vajvaladeva, and the latter's identity. This inscription says that Camuṇḍa Rāya's lord Jagadekavīra (i.e., Rācamalla) by order of king Indra raised his arm to conquer Vajvaladeva, the younger brother of Pātāļamalla, "who had an army as terrible as the ocean agitated at the end of the world."4 King Indra referred to here was no other than the Rāṣṭrakūṭa monarch Indra IV. The situation seems to have been the following :---
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The Gangas had entered into a matrimonial alliance with the Rāştrakūtas for two generations since king Bhūtuga's
1. E. C., II, Intr., p. 45; p. 12; Kavicarite, I, p. 47. 2. E. C. ibid., 281, p. 126.
3. Ibid., 59, pp. 12-13.
4. Ibid., 281, p. 126.
