[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) › c16.s2.76 # Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.76 Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.76 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s2.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.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. - [Previous: c16.s2.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.75) - [Next: c16.s2.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.77) - [Up: c16.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.76) · Pramāṇa