The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.220

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The supremacy of the Chalukyas was eventually re-established by Vikramâditya I., "the sun of valour," one of the sons of Pulikêśin II.² The records describe him as the priya-tanaya, or "dear or favourite son," of his father; and this, especially in connection with the facts that he was not the eldest son, and that the expression is applied to him even in the charters issued by his elder brother Chandrâditya, seems to indicate that he had been specially selected by his father for the succession.³ Like his father, he had the biruda of Satyâśraya; but also that of Ranarasika, "delighting in war," which occurs in his Haidarâbâd grant, and is used to denote him in two Pallava inscriptions at Conjeeveram:⁴ and his epithet was śrīprithivīvallabha. In his own records, he uses the paramount titles of Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara; and the Nausârī grant of Śryāśraya-Śilâditya, with some of the later records, adds to these titles of Bhaṭṭāraka, "the worshipful one." This latter record also describes him as a parama-mahēśvara, or most devout worshipper of the god Mahēśvara (Śiva), and as meditating on the feet of a god or teacher named Nâgavardhana.