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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA of the vāram (i.e. share of produce or income) from these ēttams (i.e. the village ?) [to the government ?][1] so that this charity endures as long as the moon and the sun last. Imprecation. In the light of the information furnished by the records edited above we may briefly review the political vicissitudes of the Vaidumba chiefs who ruled in this area. The three records together show that Vaidumba rule over Kalakaḍa stretched for over two centuries and a quarter. However, they do not furnish a connected account of the members of this family. Gaṇḍa-triṇētra of A and Bhuvana-triṇētra of B figure apparently as independent kings. If the surmise that Bhīmarāja of the Madras Museum plate of Bhuvana-triṇētra[2] was the parent of Kundavā, the queen of Ariñjaya, is conceded, one among Parāntaka’s Vaidumba opponents was probably Bhīmarāja himself. Their subjugation by the Chōlas, followed by their matrimonial alliance with the conquering power, seems to have left the Vaidumbas virtually independent, but soon the family had to submit to the Rāshṭrakūṭa power under Akālavarsha Kṛishṇa III as revealed by the Pālagiri inscription of Kaliga-triṇētra Bhīma-mahārāja, son of Maduka-mahārāja.[3] Vikramādityan and Tiruvayan, the Vaidumba vassals of the Rāshṭrakūṭa monarch, figure in the Kīḷūr inscriptions[4] as holdings sway over the South Arcot region. With the death of Rāshṭrakūṭa Kṛishṇa, the Chōḷas once again imposed their suzerainty over the Vaidumbas. Śaṅkaradēva and Sōmanātha, the son and grandson of Tiruvayaṇ, figure as subordinates under Rājarāja I[5] and Rājēndra.[6] But their position under the successors of Rājēndra is yet unknown until we come to the reign of Kulōttuṅga under whom Tiḍalīśan of record C figures as a vassal. It is, however, doubtful if this chief belonged to the line of Tiruvayaṇ, the members of which do not use the praśasti which characterises the other branch. Moreover the sway of the branch represented by Tiruvayan and his successors was confined to the area round about South Arcot, while Tiḍalīśan and his forebears, who called themselves the lords of Kalukaḍa, ruled round their ancestral home, independently whenever it suited them but bending before a suzerain as occasion arose. Some members of this line seem to have been subordinates of the Chāḷukyas of Kalyāṇa[7] while Tiḍalīśan ruled over Kalakaḍa as Kulōttuṅga’s vassal.
______________________________________________________________ [1] The dēvadāna villages were made over to Chāmuṇḍa-bhaṭṭa as kāṇi, i.e. they were leased out to him, he
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