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Therefore, the statement in the Tyagada Brahmadeva pillar inscription that by order of Indra Rāja, (the Ganga ruler Rācamalla) Jagadekavira raised his arm to conquer Vajvaladeva, obviously refers to another Räṣṭrakūta-Ganga alliance after A.D. 974 which is the last year of king Mārasimha, and probably the first regnal year of king Rācamalla IV. It clearly shows that the Ganga power continued to be under the Răştrakūta hegemony in the last decade of the tenth century A.D.
Now Vajvaladeva's eldest brother is said to be Pātāļamalla. The name Pātāļamalla is rather uncommon but it is similar to one of the titles assumed by the Sindas-Pātāļacakravartin.2 It is not improbable that Pātāļamalla was a Sinda chieftain. The following considerations will make this suggestion clear. The Sindas who ruled over the Sindavādi province comprising the modern districts of Shimoga, Chitaldroog, Bellary, Dharwar, and Bijapur,3 were under the Rāṣṭrakūta king Kṛṣṇa III in A.D. 968.4 But in A.D. 992 they had come under the Western Calukya king Ahavamalla.5 The Sindas continued to be under the Western Calukyas till A.D. 1189 but for the short period of the Kalacuriya rule in A.D. 1180.6 We have to assume that, since the Western Calukyas were the enemies of the Raṣṭrakūtas whose power they had annihi. lated, as related above, they must have won over the Sindas to their side against the Rāṣṭrakūtas. This accounts for the Sinda attack on the Räṣṭrakūtas, and the signal success Camuṇḍa Rāya, under the Ganga king Jagadekavīra Rāca
1. Rice, My. & Coorg, p. 50
2. Ibid., p. 147.
3. Ibid.
4. E. C. XI, Hk., 23, p. 118. 5. Ibid., Dg. 114, p. 72.
6. Rice, My. & Coorg, p. 47.
