South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.41

c13.s1.41

About eleven months after this event we have a record of a grant made on the occasion of the coronation of the Hoysala prince by Baḷḷappa Daṇṇāyaka. This Baḷḷappa figures several times in the records of Vīra Baḷḷāḷa III, and it is just possible that he was ‘the son-in-law of the Baḷḷāḷa’ of the Kolar records. In this grant which is dated Śaka 1265 Svabhānu, sometime in A.D. 1343 (July-August), Vīra Baḷḷāḷa is not mentioned as ruler, and we are therefore led to infer that this time it is the anointment of the prince as sovereign. The last record of this new ruler, who might for convenience be named Baḷḷāḷa IV, or Virūpāksha Baḷḷāḷa, is one dated the following Vyaya which refers itself to the time of Baḷḷāḷarāya. This would be the equivalent of A.D. 1346-47, and we hear no more of the Hoysalas after this date.