The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.335

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Vijayâditya was succeeded, in A. D. 733 or 734,⁴ by his "dear or favourite son" Vikramâditya II., who had the usual biruda of Satyâśraya, the epithet of śrîprithivîvallabha, and the titles of Mahârâjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, and in Sanskrit Bhaṭṭâraka or in Kanarese Bhaṭâra. In the Paṭṭadakal inscription of the time of Kîrtivarman II., his name appears also in the form of Vikramâdityadêva, "his majesty, the sun of valour." His mahâdêvî, or queen-consort, was Lôkamahâdêvî of the Haihaya race, i.e. of the Kalachuri family. But he also had a queen (râjñî) named Trailôkyamahâdêvî, who was the uterine younger sister of Lôkamahâdêvî;⁵ and it was from Trailôkyamahâdêvî that his son and successor Kîrtivarman II. was born. Lôkamahâdêvî built the great temple of the god Śiva under the name of Lôkêśvara, now known as Virûpâksha, at Paṭṭadakal; and Trailôkyamahâdêvî built, in the vicinity of it, a great temple of Śiva under the name of Trailôkyêśvara, which seems now to have been completely ruined.⁶ In the Vakkalêri grant of his son and successor, it is recorded that, having resolved to completely uproot his "natural enemy," the Pallava, Vikramâditya II. made a sudden and expeditious incursion into the Tuṇḍâka country, attacked and put to flight the Pallava king Nandipôtavarman who had come out to meet him, and took possession of his musical instruments called kaṭumukha or "harsh-sounding" and sâmudraghô-