The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.169

c5.169

597 Maṅgalīśa, Maṅgalarāja, Raṇavikrānta, Early Chālukya, son of Pulikeśin I, succeeds his brother Kīrtivarman; reigned till A.D. 608. Destroyed the Mātaṅgas; subdued the Kaṭachchuris (Kalachuris) under Buddharāja, son of Śaṅkaragaṇa of Chedi; conquered Revaṭīdvīpa, and apparently lost his life in trying to secure the Chālukya kingdom for his own son, to the exclusion of his nephew Pulikeśin (Aihoḷe, Nerūr, and Mahākūṭa inscriptions). Bhaṇḍārkār fixes Maṅgalīśa’s initial date in Ś. 513 (A.D. 591), from the grant of Indravarman; but Fleet, arguing from the Mahākūṭa inscription which, according to his reading, is dated in Maṅgalīśa’s fifth year, refers it to A.D. 597.—Inscriptions: IA. vii, 161 (Nerūr copper-plates); ib. x, 59 (Bādāmi undated inscription). IA. xix, 7 ff. (Mahākūṭa inscription). PSOCI., Nos. 11 and 40. BD. 50. FKD., Bom. Gaz., 346 ff.