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107 malla, won over them. It must be confessed that these assumptions rest on the supposed identity of Pātāļamalla with Pātālacakravartin which has yet to be substantiated by historical data.
Notwithstanding this one may observe that in the Khēdaga battle, as the Cāmundarāyapurāņa informs us, the army of Vajvaļadeva met that of the Gangas under Cāmunda Rāya. And the Tyāgada Brahmadeva pillar inscription relates that " the hostile army routed by the elephant (Cāmunda Raya), Aled like a herd of deer before Jagadekavīra's victorious elephant."1 For inflicting a crushing defeat on Vajvaladeva, the Rāya obtained the title Samaradhurandhara from king Racamalla.2
Cāmunda Rāya's literary work referred to above enables us to assert that he killed in action a chief named Tribhuvanavīra in the fort of Bāgeyūr, enabled Govindara to enter it, and secured for himself the biruda Vairikulaküladanda. Further he inflicted defeats on the warriors Rāja, Bāsa, Sivara, Kūņānka, and others in the fort of king Kāma (a Kādamba ?), and won the title Bhujavikrama. And Madurācaya, also known as Caladanka Ganga and Gangarabhata, who had killed Cāmunda Rāya's younger brother Nägavarmā, suffered death at the hands of the Jaina general. We may incidentally note here another reason why Cāmunda Rāya led the Ganga army against Caladanka Ganga. The Tyāgada Brahmadeva pillar inscription gives us the cause of the war against the latter. “He (Cāmunda Raya) at first frustrated the desire of king Caladanka Ganga wishing to seize by the prowess of his arm the goddess of the Ganga sovereignty,"
1. E. C. II, 281, p. 127. 2. Ibid., Intr. p. 45; Kavicarite, I, p. 47.
