The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.182

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Pulikeśin II, Satyāśraya, Śrī Prithvīvallabha, Early Chālukya, succeeds his uncle Maṅgalīśa: till about A.D. 642. After repulsing Appāyika and Govinda, perhaps of the Rāshṭrakūṭa race, Pulikeśin, according to the Aihoḷe inscription, subdued the Kadambas, reducing their capital of Banavāsi, and allied himself with the Gaṅgas of Maisūr and the Ālupas. He then sent Chaṇḍadaṇḍa against the Kanarese Mauryas, and himself attacked and reduced the city of Purī, conquered the kings of Lāṭa, Mālava, and Gurjara, and repelled Harshavardhana. Pulikeśin then took the title of *Parameśvara*. Kosala and Kaliṅga submitted to him, and later he attacked and besieged Mahendravarman I, the Pallava king, in his capital, Kāñchīpuram, and, crossing the Kaverī, invaded the country of the Choḷas, Pāṇḍyas, and Keraḷas. According to the evidence of the Haidarābād grant, these victories were gained before A.D. 612, probably about A.D. 608–9. Ādityavarman, son of Pulikeśin, is known, from an undated grant issued in the first year of his reign, to have ruled the district near the confluence of the Krishṇā and Tuṅgabhadrā. Chandrāditya, another son, whose wife Vijayabhaṭṭārikā or Vijayamahādevī issued the undated Nerūr and Kochre grants (the former of which is referred by Fleet to A.D. 659, *q.v.*), ruled the Sāvantvāḍī district, while Jayasiṁha, a younger brother of Pulikeśin, and known from the undated Nirpaṇ grant of his son Nāgavardhana, governed the Nāsik district (see under Vijayarāja, A.D. 643). Towards the close of his reign Pulikeśin suffered reverses at the hands of the Pallavas under Narasimhavarman I (*q.v.*).—IA. vi, 72; vii, 163 (undated grant from Nerūr), *ib.* p. 290; viii, 44 (Kochre grant); *ib.* p. 237 ff., or ASWI. iii, 133 ff. (Aihoḷe Meguti inscription, Ś. 556). IA. ix, 123; xiv, 330; xvi, 109; xvii, 141; xix, 303 (Sātārā copper-plate); xx, 5, 95. EI. iii, 50 (undated grant from 609 Chiplūn). AS. Reports, No. 9, 90 ff. Beal's Si-yu-ki, ii, 255 ff. JBRAS. xvi, 223. BD. 50 ff. FKD., Bom. Gaz., 349 ff.