Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.46

c17.46

After Vikramâditya I, his son Vinayâditya came to the throne One of his grants is dated S'aka 611, which was the tenth year of his reign,³⁹ another in 613 S'aka and in the eleventh year, and a third in 616 S'aka and the fourteenth year ⁴⁰ There is also an inscription of his on a stone tablet, the date occurring in which is 608 Śaka and the seventh year of his reign.⁴¹ From these it appears that Vinayâditya came to the throne in 602 Śaka corresponding to A. D. 680, in which year his father Vikramâditya must have ceased to reign. His latest is A. D. 694, but his reign terminated in A. D. 696 as is seen from his son's grants referred to below. During his father's life-time, Vinayâditya assisted him in his wars with the southern kings and won his love by destroying the forces of the Pallava king and of the other three, *i.e.*, Chola, Pâṇḍya, and Kerala, and tranquilizing the country. Between the eleventh and fourteenth years of his reign (A. D. 692—A. D. 695) he succeeded in making the Pallavas, [57] Kaḷambhras, Keralas, Haihayas, Viḷas, Mâlavas, Cholas, Pâṇḍyas, and others as steadfast allies of the Châlukya crown as the Gaṅga family of Chera and the Alupas whose loyalty was for the first time secured by Pulakeśi II.⁴² The kings of Kâvera, or Kerala as it is read in some of the grants, of the Pârasîkas, who were probably the Syrians settled on the coast of Malabâr, and of Siṁhala were made tributaries. He also seems, like his grandfather, to have fought with and defeated some paramount sovereign of Northern India whose name is not given, and to have acquired all the insignia of paramountcy, such as a certain standard called *Pâlidhvaja*, the drum called *Ḍhakkâ*, and others. These events must have taken place after 616 Śaka, since they are not mentioned in his grant of that year, but in those of his successors.⁴³ A