Epigraphia Indica Vol 22

SR No.: 032576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1933
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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the Kalingattupparani of Jayangondān, the copper-plate grants of the later Eastern Chalukya kings and the inscriptions of his reign and has also attempted to reconcile the discrepancies found in them. The following are categorically the events of his reign :(1) While heir-apparent, he captured herds of elephants at Vayiragaram and defeated
Dhārāvarsha of the Chakkarakötta country. (2) In or before the 5th year, he defeated the king of Kuntala, crowned himself as the king
of the Chāļa country and decapitated an unnamed king of the south, (3) An eleventh year record adds that he drove Vikkalap from Nangili by way of Manalūr
to the Tungabhadrā river and conquered Gangamandalam and Singanam. Some
inscriptions substitute Aļatti for Manalür and Kongapam for Singanam. (4) An inscription of the 14th year states that Kulõttunga put the five Pandyas to flight
and subdued the western portion of their country including the gulf of Mappár, the Podiya mountain, Cape Comorin and Kõttāru.' He is reported also to have limited the boundary of the Pandya country, to have placed garrisons in the strategically important places of the newly acquired territory, and to have conquered
Kudamalai-nädu. (5) The conquest of the Kalinga country is noticed in the inscriptions of the 20th, 42nd
and 45th years of the king's reign. As the inscriptions of Kulottunga I., unlike those of Räjarāja I., Rājēndrachöla I., and others, do not mention the conquests effected by the king in the order in which they occurred the later inscriptions often omitting the earlier achievements - it is difficult to determine with their aid the actual date of occurrence of the events.
About Rājakësarivarman Kulottunga's acquisition of the Chõļa dominions & word may now be said. It will be easy to follow the events if we have before us the pedigree of the Chõlas from Räjarāja I., and that of the Eastern Chālukyas from Saktivarman downwards, for it was during the reigns of the kings that followed them, the two families were closely knit together by marriage ties. The following table represents the relationship between the various members of the two families -
Rājarāja I.
Rajēndra-Chola I.
Kundavai m. Vimalāditya, younger brother of
Sakti Farman.
Rajadhi rāja I.
Rajendra-
dēva.
Virarăjen-
dra.
Ammang m. Räjarija.
Madhurāntaki m. Rajendra-chõla II, i.e., Kulõttonga I
Kundavai. The earliest Chāļa king that interfered in the politics of the Eastern Chalukya country was Rājarāja I. From his inscriptions it is seen that he conquered Vēngi in the 14th year of his reign (=A.D. 999-1000). That it resulted in placing Saktivarman alias Chāļukya-Chandra on the Eastern Chalukya throne is evident from the fact that the latter's accession took place in that
1 See Klelhorn's Southern List No. 761. * 8.1, 1., Vol. III, p. 174. . 3. I. I., Vol. III, p. 144.
See Kielhorn's Southern List Nos. 777, 782; 8.1. I., Vol. III, No. 72; and Madras Epigraphical collection for 1891, No. 44 (S. 1. 1. (Texts), Vol. IV, No. 445), and the same for 1904, No. 608.
58. I. I. (Texts), Vol. VII, No. 739