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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM version of the Pāņdya power in the north was necessary for the Hoysalas, if the latter were to be a great imperial power. This was done by king Vişnuvardhana in A.D. 1116 when in the great battle of Dumme, on the borders of the Shimoga and Chitaldroog districts, the Pāņdyas were attacked and defeated. The Pāņdya ruler who was defeated could only have been Tribhuvanamalla Pāņdya who ruled from A.D. 1101 till A.D. 1124.2 Since he is described in A.D. 1128 as “the rod in Tribhuvanamalla's right hand,"3 and since the Tribhuvanamalla referred to was no other than Vikramaditya VI, Tribhuvanamalla, (A.D. 1076-A.D. 1126),4 we shall not be wrong in believing that he was the Pāņdya ruler who was defeated by the Hoysala king. But the credit of inflicting this defeat on the Pandya ruler of Ucchangi goes to the brave prince of Orissa, Cāma Deva, who was born in Karnāšaka.5
We can only assume that it was to avenge this defeat which his trusted general had suffered at the hands of the Hoysalas that the Western Cālukya monarch himself marched to the south and encamped at Kaņņēgāl in the Hassan district. But the Hoysala king had transferred his great Jaina general Ganga Rāja from the southern command atonce to the northern scene of war. The Sāsana basti stone inscription of śravaņa Belgoļa dated A.D. 1118 gives a spirited account of the battle which ended in a complete rout of the Western Calukyas. “When the army of the Cālukyan Emperor Tribhuvanamalla Permmādi Deva, including twelve Sämantas, was encamped at Kaņņēgāl, this Ganga Rāja, saying ‘Away with the desire to mount a horse, this will be a night battle for
1. E. C. VI, Cm. 99, p. 48. 2. Ibid., XI, Intr. pp. 16-17. 3. Ibid.. Dg. 90, p. 68; My. & Coorg., p. 76. 4. Rice, My. & Coorg., p. 73. 5. Itid., p. 100.
