The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.404

c8.404

[About this time in the Mysore country Satyavākya-Mārasimha III became Western-Ganga chief. An inscription at Kārya in Mysore (E.C. iii. Nj. 192), which bears date A.D. 968 and is one of his fifth year, would make his accession in 964-65; but another of his tenth year is dated October 25, A.D. 971 and this would fix it as having occurred in the year following October 25, 961 (E.C. iv. Ng. 51). His principal exploit was that for some reason not very clear, he quarrelled with Poralchora II, now the ruler of the Noḷambavāḍi country under Rāṣṭrakūṭa domination, called himself ‘Noḷamba-kulāntaka’ (death to the Noḷamba family), and about A.D. 970, made war on him. Fleet's theory as to the origin of the war was that the Noḷamba chief had become restive under the Rāṣṭrakūṭa yoke, and that Mārasimha, loyal to the latter, determined to assist his overlord by crushing down any opposition to him. In any case the war took place, the Noḷamba chief was completely defeated, and his province fell under Gaṅga rule. Mārasimha advanced and ‘despoiled the ruler of Baṇavāsi’—possibly because the said ruler had also become disaffected towards the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king. (E.I. v. 151.)