Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c20.29

c20.29

[102] The Vratakhaṇḍa places Arjuna after Vesugı,¹⁵ but the two grants omit his name, and perhaps the former mentions Arjuna not as a Yâdava prince, but Arjuna the Pâṇḍava, meaning to compare Vesugı with him and his enemies to Bhîshma The next king was Bhillama¹⁶ who according to the KalasBudruk grant was Vesugı's son He married Hammâ, the daughter of Jayasimha and sister of Âhavamalla, the Châlukya emperor, under whose standard he fought several battles¹⁷ The Kalas-Budruk charter was issued by this prince in 948 Saka The cyclic year being Krodhana, 948 Saka must have been the current year, corresponding to 1025 A D Pandit Bhagvanlal's grant then proceeds at once to the donor, the reigning prince Seuna, who is spoken of in general terms as "having sprung from the race" of the last-mentioned king, and is represented to have defeated several kings and freed his kingdom from enemies after "the death of Bhillama" This Bhillama was his immediate predecessor, but he was a different person from the brother-in-law of Ahavamalla, since Seuna, is spoken of not as the son of the latter or any such near relation but simply as "having sprung from his race" The Vratakhanda supplies the names of the intermediate princes The elder Bhillama was succeeded by Vadugi,¹⁸ his son, "whose praise was sung by poets in melodious words" After him Vesugi¹⁹ became king, but how he was related to Vadugi we are not told He humbled a number of subordinate chiefs who had grown troublesome Then came Bhillama, and after him Seuna²⁰ who issued the charter translated by Pandit Bhagvanlal What relationship the last three princes bore to each other is not stated Seuna is represented to have saved Paramardideva, that is, Vikramaditya II, who is styled the "luminary of the Chalukya family" from a coalition of his enemies, and to have placed him on the throne of Kalyana²¹ This appears to be a reference to the coalition between the Vengi prince and Vikramaditya's brother Somesvara The Yadava prince Seuna was thus a close ally of the Châlukya monarch and their dates also are consistent with the fact Seuṇachandra's grant is dated Śaka 991 Saumya Samvatsara, while Vikramâditya II got possession of the Châlukva throne in Śaka 998 Nala The grant mentions the relations of previous Yâdava princes to the Châlukyas of Kalyâna, while the important service rendered by Seuṇachandra to Vikramâditya is not recorded, and he is spoken of only in general terms as having vanquished "all kings" This itself shows that in all likelihood the fact mentioned in the Vratakhaṇḍa of Seunachandra's having delivered that prince from his enemies and placed him on the throne took place after Śaka 991, and we know it as a matter of fact that Vikramâditya became king in Śaka 998