The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.339

c8.339

In the Vengi country there was great confusion for two years about this time. The reign of the Eastern Chāḷukya Amma I of Vengi came to an end in A.D. 925. He was succeeded by his son ‘Bēta’-Vijayāditya V who only reigned for fifteen days, when the throne was seized by a member of the junior branch, Tādapa or Tārapa, who was himself assassinated after a month by Vikramāditya II, uncle of Amma I. This Vikramāditya II reigned for eleven months. A civil war followed and the king was defeated and dispossessed by his grand-nephew Bhīma II who, in the absence of Bēta Vijayāditya, had a sound title to the throne. Eight months later Bhīma II was killed by Yuddhamalla, son of Tādapa, who succeeded in retaining the throne for seven years, from about A.D. 927-934. Bēta Vijayāditya retired apparently into private life and became the ancestor of the later Pīthāpūr chiefs. The Maliyapūṇḍi grant says that he was banished by Chālukya Bhīma III.