Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.80

c16.s2.80

Sometimes kings assumed titles with reference to their particular achievements. Thus the title *Gaṅgakoṇḍa* assumed by the Coḷa king Rājendra I (1012-43 A.D.) refers to his success against the Gaṅgas or the land watered by the Gaṅgā. But, in certain cases, such a title was continuously used by the successors of a ruler who first assumed it. Thus the Sūryavaṁśī monarch Kapileśvara, who became king of Orissa in 1434-35 A.D., claimed to be *Gauḍeśvara* and *Navakoṭi-Karṇāṭa-Kalavargeśvara*, i.e. ‘the lord of Gauḍa’ and ‘the master of the Karṇāṭa-nine-crores as well as of Kalavarga (Gulbarga)’, although the claim is more or less vainglorious. But it is interesting to note that the same title was continued not only by his successors but also by later Oriya rulers who claimed to have been the successors of the medieval emperors of Orissa. Sometimes kings of a family, especially of the Kannaḍa region, represented themselves as the lord of a particular city or locality from which it claimed to have hailed. Thus the Imperial Rāṣṭrakūṭas often called themselves *Lattalūrapura-parameśvara*, ‘lord of Lattalūrapura (modern Lātūr in the Osmanabad District of the former Hyderabad State).’¹