Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.76

c16.s2.76

⁶ The title was assumed by Kalacuri Karṇa (1041-71 A.D.) and his successors, Gāhaḍavāla Govindacandra (1114-54 A.D.) and his successors, the Sena king Lakṣmaṇasena (1179-1206 A.D. ) and his successors and the Candella king Trailokyavarman (1205-50 A.D.). Mirashi suggests that Karṇa assumed the title after subduing three kings regarded as *Aśvapati*, *Gajapati* and *Narapati* (*CII*, Vol. IV, pp. c-ci). The Gāhaḍavālas and Candellas appear to have assumed it after their success against the Kalacuris and the Senas as a result of their success against the Gāhaḍavālas. But, as regards Candella Trailokyavarman, his name may have been inserted in the place of that of a Kalacuri king in the ready-made introductory part of the grants of the Kaurava feudatories of Karkareḍi, since the typical Kalacuri title *Vāmadeva-pād-ānudhyāta* (i. e. meditating on or favoured by the Śaiva religious teacher Vāmadeva to whom the Kalacuri kingdom was dedicated by his disciple Gāṅgeya) and *Trikaliṅgādhipati* are also found to have been used along with his name. See the Rewa plates in *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XVII. pp. 230 ff.; cf. *Ep. Ind.*, Vol., XXX, pp.46 ff. Rapson associates the title with the Allahabad region and suggests that its assumption indicates the possession of the said region (*Woolner Com. Vol.*, pp. 196 ff.). It is difficult to accept this view. We have, to note that the same title was assumed by the Vijayanagara kings.