Epigraphia Indica Vol 26

SR No.: 032580
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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Harihara II
As the ruling families of several of the states mentioned above were connected by marriage alliances which influenced the course of events described in the present record, a chart showing their inter-relationship is given below:
VIJAYANAGARA RAJAHMUNDRY I
Kāta
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Måra
KONDAVIDU
A daughter m. Kata II Kundragiri Anitalli T Hariharamba
m. No. 1 Vēma.
Prolaya Vēma
1
Vēma m. Doddäzabika Annavõta Annavěma
[VOL. XXVI.
TELUGU CHODAS RAJAHMUNDRY II
of Eruva
Bhaktiraja
m. No. 2 Virabhadra.
Kumaragiri A danghter. m. Bhimalimga Annadeva
Vēmāmbikā m.
Virabhadra
Dodda
1. Vēma 2. Virabhadra 3. Dodda 4. Anna.
Allida
Of the Bruva chiefs mentioned in this charter, only three viz., Eruva-Bhima, Bhaktiraja and Annadeva, deserve any notice here.
1. Brava Bhima has been identified with a certain Mailama-Bhima, a chief of unknown origin, whose military exploits are recounted in a few Telugu Chatu verses, but this identification is not beyond question. It is pointed out that the mother of Mailama-Bhima, as indicated by the name itself, was Mailama, whereas it is definitely stated in the present inscription that the name of Eruva Bhima's mother was Annemamba. These two persons, therefore, could not have been identical. Apart from the literary reference, there is an epigraph assignable to the middle of the 13th century at Talla-Prodduțür in the Cuddapah District which gives some definite information about the activities of Eruva-Bhima. This epigraph which consists of a single verse in the Utpalamālā metre, states that Visara-nandu, Chakraghoṭṭa, Manniya, Vadde Tekkali, Manthena, Vengi, Kalinga and other countries were ruined by an invasion of Eruva-Bhima. The circumstances in which he had undertaken this expedition are not known. It may be remembered that Bhima was but the chief of a small principality, and with his limited resources he could not have by himself embarked on a prolonged military campaign, and successfully penetrated to Chakrakōṭṭa in the Bastar State. He must have had a powerful ally, whom he might have actually assisted in subjugating the places mentioned in the Talla-Prodduṭur epigraph. To discover who this ally was, the age in which Bhima himself lived must be ascertained at first. Bhaktiraja, the fifth in descent from Bhima, made a gift of the village of Kandavakolanu or Kadavakolanu on Monday the 7th November A.D. 1356 to a bachelor called Viśvanatha at Srisaila."
1 V. Prabhakara Sastri-Chatupadya-maniman jari, ii, p. 58.
T. N. Ramachandran-J. O. R., Vol. V, p. 132. V. Apparao believes that Mailama-Bhima was also known as Eruva-Bhima. How this could have been possible, he does not, however, explain (J. A. H. R. S., Vol. I, Pp. 175-6).
No. 308 of 1935-6 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection; published in Bharati Vol. XV, p. 158. J. O. R., Vol. V, p. 334.