Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.53

c17.53

ing in which is 608 Śaka and the seventh year of his reign⁴¹ 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 lifetime, 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 Ganga family of Chera and the Alupas whose loyalty was for the first time secured by Pulakesi II⁴² 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 successors⁴³ A chief of the name of Mahârâja Pogilli of the Sendraka family was a feudatory of his in the south about Maisur ⁴⁴