Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.204

c18.204

For some time there was an interruption in the Châlukya power, and the Kalachuris seem to have held possession of the whole territory of that dynasty But internal dissensions consequent on the rise of the Liṅgâvata creed and the assassination of Vijjaṇa considerably weakned the power of the Kalachuris, and about the Śaka year 1104 Someśvara, the son of Nurmaḍi Taila, succeeded in wresting a considerable portion of the hereditary dominions of his family, and established himself at Annigeri. He owed his restoration to power to the valour and devoted attachment of a feudatory of his family named Brahma or Bomma, who fought several battles with the enemies of his master and is said to have conquered sixty elephants by means of a single one.⁷⁹ Bomma is represented in an inscription at Annigeri dated Śaka 1106 to have destroyed the Kalachuris and restored the Châlukyas to the throne.⁸⁰ But a short time after, the Yâdavas of the south rose under Vîra Ballâḷa and of the north under Bhillama. They both fought with Bomma, but success at first attended the arms of Vîra Ballâḷa, who subdued the Châlukya general and put an end to the power of the dynasty.⁸¹ We lose trace of Vîra Soma or Someśvara IV. after Śaka 1111.