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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH On palaeographical grounds, the inscription may be assigned to the same period as the foregoing inscription H, i.e., the beginning of the 8th century A.D. It may be also be noted that perhaps the same queen Chōlamahārājuladēvuḷ is mentioned in both considering that the records come from places within 15 miles of each other. If so the king of the two records may be the same, Vikramāditya Chōla II. The queen’s name is given in this record as Maṁkhi (Mañchi) porriyāru and she seems to be ruling, residing at Ujjayini, a place which may be identified with Ujjini in the Kudligi taluk, Bellary district, about 100 miles west-south-west of Erigal (Niḍugal). As the inscription is highly damaged, the names of some persons mentioned in it are lost. An Erigallu-Mutturāju is referred to and he may have been a prince of the family holding the official dignity of Mutturāju. It is not unlikely that he was the son of the king and queen of the record, but his identity with any of the known sons of Vikramāditya cannot be established at present. As can be gathered from the Mālēpāḍu stone inscription of Satyāditya and the foregoing Chilamakuru inscription of Vikramāditya II (ins. H), Vikramāditya II had evidently two sons, Uttamāditya and Satyāditya ; it may be suggested that the Erigallu-Mutturāju of the present inscription may have been one of these, probably the younger, being only a Mutturāju and not a Yuvarāja. As Uttamāditya is seen to be ruling from Chilamakūru in company with Chōlamahādēvī (his mother) during the reign of his father Vikramāditya as recorded in the Chilamakūru inscription (H above) it may be inferred that he was the Yuvarāja (although referred to by the general epithet of Sāmantaka in the record) and hence, the elder of the two brothers ; Uttamāditya succeeded to the throne as he has left an inscription (J, the Veludurti inscription below) in which he bears kingly titles and is described as ruling the earth.
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