South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.48

c8.48

(5) Another family of chiefs comes into notice from the Śeṅgaṇma record of the twenty-first year. Two of them are mentioned, namely, Tirukkāḷattidēva and his son Vīra Narasimhadēva. The father’s name occurs in records of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Kulottunga, while that of the son is available in those of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of Rājarāja III, the successor of Kulottunga. This Vīra Narasimha seems the chief referred to in a record of the fifteenth year of Kulottunga where he is described as ‘Prince Simha, alias Vīrarākshasa Yādavarāja, the son of Yādavarāja alias Tirukkāḷattidēva.’ Both father and son gave themselves the title (biruda) ‘Vengi-vallabha,’ and claimed the ‘Śaśikula-Chāḷukya’ lineage. The Veṅkaṭēśapperumāḷ temple at Tirupati contains a number of inscriptions of this family. One of them refers itself to the thirty-fourth year of Tribhuvana Chakravartin Vīra-Narasimhadēva Yādavarāya. According to another of his fortieth year the temple was rebuilt. Another chief Tribhuvana Chakravartin Tiruvēṅgaḍanātha Yādavarāya has a record of his eighth year, and belonged in all probability to the same family.