The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.284

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A.D. c. 877-78. Several inscriptions of this period refer to a great battle at Sorēmati which followed a raid made on the Puliṇāḍu country of the Chittoor District by an allied force of soldiers sent by the Western Ganga and Noḷamba-Pallava chiefs. Apparently after this raid and in consequence of it these allies were attacked by a combined army of the Vaiḍumba and Bāṇa chiefs. Action was joined at Sorēmati, and the Ganga and Noḷamba forces were beaten and compelled to retire. Many of the records are epitaphs of soldiers who were killed (V. R. i. Chittoor 167, 168, 170, 175, 180, 196, 243, 255, 256; 295, 296 of 1905; 542, 556, 571 of 1906; 306, 318 of 1912, etc.). One record of the Noḷamba-Pallava chief Mahēndra I (whose mother Jayabbe, the daughter of Ganga Rāchamalla I is mentioned) says that he ‘destroyed the Chōḷa and other rivals’ and ‘succeeded in sowing dissensions among those outside his frontiers.’ (E. C. xii Si. 38.)