The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.281

c8.281

A.D. 877-78. An inscription at Guḍimallam near Kāḷahasti shews that in this year, which was the twenty-fourth year of the Pallava king Nṛipatunga, the ‘country west of the Telugu road,’ i.e., the country of the Bāṇas was ruled by the Bāṇa chief Vāṇavidyādhara alias Vikramāditya Prabhumēru I. (V. R. Chittoor 62; 228 of 1903; S. I. I. iii, No. 42; E. I. xi, 226.)