Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.29

c17.29

Pulakesi was succeeded by his second son Vikramâditya In the grants he is called Pulakesi's *priyatanaya* or favourite son, so that it appears that Pulakesi had arranged that Vikramâditya should succeed him at the principal seat of government, and had assigned an outlying province to his eldest son Chandrâditya At the beginning of this reign as of the previous ones there was a disturbance, but it did not come from the princes or chiefs more to the north who seem to have now been permanently humbled, but from the far south The Pallava king of Kâñchî or Conjeveram and the rulers of the Cholas, the Pâṇḍyas, and the Keralas threw off the yoke which Pulakeśi had but loosely placed over them, and rebelled Vikramâditya, who was a man of abilities and daring adventure, broke the power of the Cholas, Pâṇḍyas, and Keralas He defeated the Pallava king, captured his capital Kâñchî, and compelled him, who had never before humbled himself before anybody, to do him homage On the back of his horse Chitrakaṇṭha and sword in hand he is said to have repelled all the enemies that attacked him In this manner he acquired again the whole of the dominions ruled over by his father, and became the paramount sovereign of the country "between the three seas "²⁴