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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH held by the Telugu Chōla, Vijayāditya indicates that after he became king, he threw off his allegiance to the Chālukyas and assumed independence. In the wake of his assumption of independence, the Bāṇa subordinates of the Chālukyas in this region were subdued, and they passed under his suzerainty from that of the Chālukyas as indicated by the mention of the Bāṇa in a subordinate capacity in the record under review. It would be of interest to trace here the activities of the Bāṇas during the period prior to their subjugation by the Telugu Chōla Vijayāditya of the present record. Several inscriptions of Chāḷukya Vijayāditya found in the locality around the place where the present record has been discovered, mention a number of Bāṇa chiefs ruling over this region. One of these dated in his 23rd year (= A.D. 719) found at Koṇḍupalli, Gooty taluk, Anantapur District[1] mentions Vikramāditya Bali Indra Bāṇarāja, son of Balikulatilaka Narasiṁha Bāṇādhirāja, as ruling over Turumara-vishaya. At Bētapalli[2] in the same taluk, an undated record of the same Chālukya king is found mentioning an unnamed Bāṇa as ruling the same vishaya[3] while the Bāṇa’s uncle, Vikramāditya, was ruling Ayiraḍi. Another record of Vijayāditya (date lost) is found at Dānavulapāḍu[4] in which a chief, Bhūpāditya, finds mention. This Bhūpāditya may be indentified with Bhujaṅgadi Bhūpāditya of the Perbāṇa family, who figures as the donor in the Arkaṭavēmula inscription of Śrī-Vallabha[5], which has been assigned to Vikramāditya I[6] on the ground that the title Śrīvallabha was an epithet of Vikramāditya I assumed by him after his conquest of the Pallavas[7].
The same Bāṇa, Bhūpāditya, is mentioned as ruling Rēnāṇḍu in another record of Vijayāditya at Rajolu, Sirvel taluk, Kurnool District, which has been noticed and copied by the Assistants of Col. Mackenzie.[8] The Bāṇa subordinates of the Chālukyas under Vijayāditya seem to have extended their rule from Turumara-vishaya, north of the river Pennār, to the south of the river, into Rēnāṇḍu. They appear to have been in occupation of Chilamakūru (Chiruṁbūru of the inscription) in the Kamalapuram taluk, Cuddapah District, as evidenced by an inscription of an unnamed son of Vikramāditya Perbāṇādhirāja at the place. As the Telugu Chōlas up to the time of Satyāditya wore ruling over Rēnāṇḍu, the Bāṇa occupation of their territory must have taken place during or subsequent to his rule. The conquest of their own dominions (i.e., Rēnāṇḍu) as also those of the Bāṇas by the Telugu Chōlas under Prithvīvallabha Vijayāditya Chōḷa seems to be indicated by the record under review. The Perbāṇa family to which some of these Bāṇas of the Ceded Districts are stated to belong, may have, as their family name indicates, belonged to the Bṛihad-Bāṇa line, the foes of Kadamba Mayūraśarman, mentioned in the Talagunda inscription of Kākusthavarman.[9] Regarding the other persons mentioned in the inscription and their identification, Pallavādhirāja may probably be identified with Nandivarman Pallavamalla (acc. c. 725 A.D.) as the date assigned for this inscription falls during the period of his rule. The mention of the Pallava in terms of family relationship to the mother of the Telugu Chōla king would indicate that friendly relations that had subsisted between the two dynasties earlier in the time of Mahēndravikrama Chōlamahārāja, were again established. This was evidently made possible by the assumption of independence─as his title Prithvīvallabha indicates─by Vijayāditya-Chōḷa from the yoke of the _________________________
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